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Blogs: New documentary about more than basketball

By BEN DENNETT

Though LeBron James is featured prominently in the trailer, More Than a Game does a good job of not becoming the LeBron James movie. Instead, Coach Dru Joyce II becomes the most captivating character in a study of the relationships between the people involved on the 2003 National High School Basketball Championship team.

A corporate success, Joyce comes to a moment in his life where he asks himself, “What have I done that really matters?” In his transition period of self-discovery Joyce begins coaching his son and his friends on a travel basketball team. “It all began in a gym on Maple Street with a linoleum floor,” Joyce said. “My job wasn’t about basketball, it was about helping them become men.”

 

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