‘The Last Dance’, the Netflix documentary about Michael Jordan It was a complete success for the video-on-demand platform and for the world of sports. Several generations that could not enjoy the best basketball player in history, and those that did, discovered things about Jordan that had never been seen before. Now Netflix wants to repeat the formula with the United States basketball team and the documentary called ‘The Redeem Team’, something like “the redemption team”.
This new audiovisual product talks about the return to glory of the American basketball team, which went through its toughest moments in the 2002 World Cup or the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Con Mike Kryzewski As a coach, a position he held until 2016, the United States was once again untouchable in the world of international basketball, trying to recover the Dream Team that was seen at the Barcelona 92 Olympic Games, with Michael Jordan, Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, among others.
‘The Redeem Team’ starts at Beijing Olympics 2008, where the protagonists were Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Crish Bosh, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade or Jason Kidd, among others. Everyone knows the story, Kryzewski ended up winning three Olympic golds and two World Cups in office. During this period of redemption of the Americans they only found one stumbling block, the Spanish National Team.
In one of the advances of the documentary it has been possible to see how they spoke Kobe Bryant y Pau Gasol of their relationship, being then teammates in the Los Angeles Lakers and the leaders of their teams.
Regarding the final of the Beijing Olympic Games, for many the best national team match in basketball history, which was won by the United States 118 to 107, Pau Gasol he confesses in the preview how it was the previous one of that meeting. “Before the game, Kobe paid me a visit when the US team came to the Olympic Village. My older brother was coming to see me and my teammates were freaking out, ‘Wow, Kobe is in our apartment, wow.’ Actually, I think it was part of his strategy to soften me up,” he explained.
“He came straight at me, pushed me in the chest and threw me to the ground. It was a message, not only to me but to his own team: ‘Hey, this could be my brother, he plays on my team and he’s my friend. But the only thing that matters to me is winning”, assured Pau about the first play of the final, in which Kobe ran over the Spaniard.
players like LeBron They also talk in this preview about some of the phrases that Kobe Bryant said about Pau. “Kobe told us, ‘I’m going to pierce Pau in the fucking chest.’ .. God, we were not going to lose that game. We were going to crush Spain,” he admits in the video.
There is no release date for the documentary yet, although it will surely be a success.
