“Swagger,” the Apple TV Plus drama centered in the world of youth basketball, boasts an impressive pedigree with storylines drawn from the formative experiences of NBA standout Kevin Durant. But th…
. But the series is anything but a TV-scaled biopic; its ambitions are decidedly bigger and more far-reaching than even the 6-foot-10-inch superstar.
“Most of my teammates today all came from the same environment — poverty, crime, not a lot of activities — so we were drawn to sports,” says the NBA All-Star. “It was able to create some structure for us so we can move on and advance in life. We owe a lot of that to the game and where the game has taken me. I wanted that to come across to people.”
My oldest son went through the basketball circuit, my youngest son’s been playing very high level of baseball, and I just really then wanted to broaden the conversation outside of the biopic arena, using his story as a strong spark of inspiration.
Can you give me an anecdote about something specific to Kevin’s experience that you were able to then blow up a little bigger? It was very apparent to me early on when we started dealing with the age of 14. Fourteen is an age in its historical context, in American history, in the Black community — that was the age that Emmett Till was when he was murdered [on] Aug. 28, 1955.
One of the main challenges is there’ve been so many sports narratives or basketball narratives, and how can you shoot basketball in a way that we haven’t seen before? And so that was a real interesting challenge to take on. And I wanted to do it in a way where we felt like we were inside the game and not merely spectating the game.
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