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Martin McKenzie-Murray

The makers of the documentary series Celtics City, on the most successful basketball team in NBA history, hoped to replicate the popularity of ESPN’s The Last Dance. They did not.

Martin McKenzie-Murray On this day, three decades ago, the careers of two sporting legends took sharply divergent paths.

Martin McKenzie-Murray Considered one of the best sports films ever made, Hoosiers – about a high-school basketball team in Indiana – owes much to the soulful performance of the late Gene Hackman.

Martin McKenzie-Murray The sudden death in 1993 of NBA star Reggie Lewis on the far side of the world was unsettling and profound to the author, then a 12-year-old child dealing with his own anxiety and fears.

Martin McKenzie-Murray When sporting superstars retire, it is usually accompanied by a grand event or gesture in their honour, something Richmond’s Dustin Martin had no interest in when he gave the game away.

Martin McKenzie-Murray Thirty years on from the epic basketball game at the centre of Space Jam, key figures recall the day an ingenious Bugs Bunny teamed with the legendary Michael Jordan in a stand for good against evil.

Martin McKenzie-Murray A new miniseries exposes the ‘plantation mentality’ of billionaire landlord and former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who also liked naming buildings after himself.

Martin McKenzie-Murray It’s been a year of nailbiting NRL and AFL grand finals, wonderful world cups, Ashes accusations and Novak Djokovic winning yet again. But four things ranked above all others.

Martin McKenzie-Murray Decades after his retirement, interest in NBA legend Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson has not dimmed. A recent documentary, an HBO series on his 1980s Lakers and an 800-page biography are testaments to his enduring legacy.