“They made a game on top of a game,” laments an old ball coach in Steven Soderberg‘s new Netflix drama “High Flying Bird” (read our review). The character, played by the great Bill Duke, is referring to a league system that treats black players like commodities because it could never beat them on the court. In this way, “High Flying Bird” is a scathing send-up of not only the NBA but all sorts of starry-eyed sports movies.
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- 2/16/2019
- by Chance Solem-Pfeifer
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