Phil Jackson is returning to the NBA—just not in the capacity that many have envisioned over the past two summers.
According to Variety's Senior TV Editor Brian Steinberg, the former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers head coach is set to team up with current Lakers assistant Kurt Rambis as executive producers for a new Showtime series:
Showtime is developing a one-hour scripted series that takes a peek behind the scenes of a professional basketball team, with NBA coaching great Phil Jackson and current Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Kurt Rambis on board as exec producers. The series will focus on the family that owns the team, according to details provided by the CBS Corp. pay-cable service.
According to the report, Ron Shelton, who worked on sports movies such as Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Blue Chips, The Great White Hype and Tin Cup, will write and direct the new project.
Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis will also step on as executive producers.
Color me intrigued.
As we've seen before, anyti ...
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Phil Jackson Reportedly Executive Producer of Showtime Project
September 10th, 2013 by Tim Keeney Leave a reply »
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