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Tune in to watch a New York Knicks basketball game and you may see Spike Lee trash-talking opposing stars from his courtside seats. Next to filmmaking, basketball is one of the director's greatest loves, and with his focus increasingly shifting toward nonfiction features (When the Levees Broke, Passing Strange), it was only a matter of time before Lee got around to shooting some hoops. (See pictures of Star Trek's best villains...
...Kobe Doin' Work is his documentary about Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant that is set to air on ESPN at 8 p.m. E.T. on May 16. Billed as a "game in the life" of one of the NBA's best players, Kobe Doin' Work could just as easily have been titled Kobe on Kobe, as Lee brought the guard into the studio to record his own commentary track. (See TIME's photo-essay "Magic Johnson: A Life in Sports...
...documentary, filmed during a 2008 playoff game between the Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs, Lee used more than two dozen cameras and a microphone Velcroed to Bryant's jersey to capture the action on the court. Behind the scenes, viewers also see Bryant's tranquil pregame routine and his interactions with head coach Phil Jackson during a halftime chalk talk. TIME spoke with Lee a week after the documentary's world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival...
...After going through all your footage and watching this game from so many angles, do you watch basketball differently now? Well, I've always done that. From my seats at [Madison Square] Garden, I'm always looking at what's happening on the bench and the interplay between the coach and the players - especially when a coach takes a player out. I'm looking at the player's reaction at being pulled from the game. (Watch TIME's video "A Free Lesson With: Kobe Bryant...
...list of demands, he said, including college tuition for her children, two cars, a house paid off and $3,000 per month, plus another $75,000 if Pitino left the university. Tim Sypher delivered the list to Pitino on March 6 in West Virginia, where Louisville had a game to clinch the Big East regular season championship. Two weeks later, according to the complaint, Karen Sypher hired an attorney who expanded the allegations against Pitino and withdrew the earlier demands in lieu of a new demand for $10 million...