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Basketball: A Love Story
Season 1 · Episode 31
Tailspin
0.022mSeptember 18, 2018
In the '70s, the NBA's image was at an all time low due to rampant cocaine use and an increase in on-court violence. Only the birth of the greatest individual rivalry in the sport's history could keep it afloat: Magic Johnson v Larry Bird.
Episodes
- Episode 1Love of the Game
- Episode 2The Teachers
- Episode 3The Choke
- Episode 4Origins
- Episode 5Scandal
- Episode 6Signature Moves: The Feel
- Episode 7The Spring of '57
- Episode 8Patriots to Protest
- Episode 9Signature Moves: The Touch
- Episode 10ABA: The Red, White, and Blue
- Episode 11The Dipper and the Winner
- Episode 12Signature Moves: Discipline
- Episode 13Mayhem in Munich
- Episode 14Brotherly Love
- Episode 15The Witch Hunt
- Episode 16Birth of the Bruins
- Episode 17Tomboys
- Episode 18Rupp's Reckoning
- Episode 19Renegades
- Episode 20The Eighth Wonder of the World
- Episode 21Title IX: Immaculata
- Episode 22Joy or Relief?
- Episode 23Oscar and the West: Bittersweet Victories
- Episode 24Self Expression
- Episode 25One and Done
- Episode 26David vs Goliath
- Episode 27General Knight
- Episode 28Deal of the Century
- Episode 29Wild Days: Upsets, Brawls, and No-Calls
- Episode 30Do or Die
- Episode 31Tailspin
- Episode 32Portland's One Year Dynasty
- Episode 33The First Lady
- Episode 34Don't Call Me Buckwheat
- Episode 35Genius Gene
- Episode 36Georgetown Culture: John Thompson's America
- Episode 37NBA: It's Fantastic
- Episode 38Contempt: LA vs. Boston
- Episode 39The First Lottery
- Episode 40Signature Moves: The Mind
- Episode 41Born to Coach
- Episode 42Glasnost: The Walls Come Down
- Episode 43Little Big Men
- Episode 44Air Jordan
- Episode 45Magic
- Episode 46College Coaches: The Changing of the Guard
- Episode 47Dream Team
- Episode 48The Coach and the Killer: Phil Jackson and MJ
- Episode 49Pat Versus Geno
- Episode 50The W
- Episode 51The Spurs Way
- Episode 52NCAA: Pay or Play?
- Episode 53Triangle: Kobe, Shaq, and Phil
- Episode 54Size Matters
- Episode 55LeBron Enters
- Episode 56The Decision
- Episode 57America's Game
- Episode 58Battles Royale
- Episode 59Analytically Correct
- Episode 60Golden State Emerges
- Episode 61Basketball Hysteria
- Episode 62Basketball Pass