OT: ESPN Films-Once Brothers

It's a great movie.

Vlade Divac { my boy from his time with C- Webb in Sac Town} and his Olympic and national team teamate who was a rising star with the N.J. Nets? If so that was one of my favorite, it was so touching and sad. I would say top 3 with the Fab Five, Pony Express, Only Brothers, The U, and the one on the running back Dupree I think who was Bo Jackson, and Herschel Walker combined in his hay day.

The Two Escobars is one of my favorites as well.

the whole situation was so sad...

In a less important note: I would have loved to see that Yugoslavian National Team play the Dream Team in 92...I think that would have had the potential to be an all time classic

Documentary. One of my favorite 30 for 30's although I like quite a few of them.

right Vlade Divac had to pay for his head stone for his burial site. I think the family couldn't afford one, so Vlade stepped up and paid for it, or it was his funeral all together. Vlade really loved him and was si crushed by his passing.

The next one is after ESPN's NCAA Tourney selection show (like the Fab Five was) a week from Sunday. It's about Magic Johnson and his AIDS announcement.

http://espn.go.com/espn/espnfilms/story/_/page/theannouncement/announcement

Probably no Fab Five, but they're doing a good job tailoring the release times to days and dates that people are already tuning in.

Amazing player... really sad that he died young. 

I used to go to Nets game to see him when I lived in NYC -- the '91, '92 teams with Petrovic, Kenny Anderson and Derrick Coleman were fun to watch and helped turn the fortunes from a team that had being going through a terrible string of bad luck (albeit some of it self-inflicted with terrible drafts... Dennis Hopson over Scottie Pippen or Reggie Miller!) with losing Michael Ray Richardson to failed drug tests and Darryl Dawkins to slipping in a bath tub.

favorite ESPN documentaries. I was deployed to Bosnia with the US Army and saw how the war there tore family and friends apart. Definitely a good, but sad story worth watching.

If you want to see even more sadness from that region, watch (or read) The Whistleblower.  It's amazing there are people out there who do this kinda shit.  Watch the movie or read the book and you'll see what I'm talking about.  Disgusting stuff to say the least, and amazing how so many agencies and so many people enable this kinda crap.

but did anyone see June 4th 1994 (or whatever the date was, the OJ one)?? That one was crazy. I thought how it was done (no commentary, just spliced footage) was really interesting and really put together just how intense that 1 day was. I thought it was great

That was my favorite 30 for 30 narrowly edging out the OJ one.

My faves:

Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs the Knicks

Fab Five

The Band that Wouldn't Die (Baltimore Colts band story)

16th Man (About the 1994 Rugby World Cup in post-apartheid South Africa)

The Guru of Go (About Paul Westhead and 'the system')

It just goes to show you how well done all these stories are.  In this thread alone there are 20+ different titles mentioned as favorites.  I watch ESPN as much as anyone should, and I have not heard of half of them. 

Best one I saw was the Dupree story.

Most talked about one I have not seen was the Two Escobars.

Now i will put this one on the list too.

Saw them all, got the box set. My favorite are this and Two Escobars. Ironically, both of them climax before the fall of their teams with the teams getting an unexpected standing ovation in Argentina.

There's still a lot of NASTY blood out there toward Divac. Many Croats still view him as a puppet of a horrid Serbian regime.

This one was my favorite (being that the Fab Five wasn't a "real" 30 for 30).  But after that I liked one that I don't think has been mentioned yet - The U.  After that some of my favs were the Pony Excess, What happened to the USFL, Muhammad vs. Larry (really great look at Holmes), Jimmy the Greek, and of the oddball ones, Unmatched.  Their overblown obsession with Boston and New York hurt some of the others a bit.

My favorite 30 for 30 was definitely Catching Hell, about the Steve Bartman incident.  I also really liked King's Ransom.  Even though it wasn't about anything particualrly controversial, I just liked reliving that time period in NHL history.  The Fab Five was obviously a great one, as was The Two Escobars.

If Yugoslavia had stayed together. We would be able to challenge the US basketball team in the Olympics and almost certainly contending for World Cups. Stupid ethnic squabbles...

Other than the Fab Five one, the one that I watch every time it is on is Unguarded about Chris Herren. If you have not seen this yet, checked it out. Just amazing how low his life got, how well he played all messed up and his fight to get his life back. When my kids get older I will make them watch it to see how much drugs can destroy your life.

This is probably one of the best ESPN movies they were associated with. Moving film. 

Someone posted a picture a few days ago on another forum of Anthony Morrow rocking a Petrovic throwback during the 3-point contest. Brought back memories of the film.