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To paraphrase a line often attributed to Oscar Wilde \u2014 or, if you\u2019d prefer, Dr. Who \u2014 you can always judge a person by the quality of their enemies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By that measure, Jemele Hill and LeBron James reached a rarefied air in the past couple years, after the president of the United States used his Twitter account to attack then-ESPN anchor Hill and the world\u2019s best basketball player.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Also in this group, as Hill recounts during a recent talk at her manager\u2019s office in West L.A.: Golden State guard Steph Curry, CNN\u2019s Don Lemon and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re all in this club that\u2019s quickly growing \u2014 and, by the way, everybody in the club basically looks alike,\u201d she adds with a sly grin. \u201cExcept maybe Stormy Daniels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s the kind of unfiltered observation that got Hill in trouble with her bosses at ESPN, where she negotiated a departure from her contract last month. She was suspended for violating the company\u2019s policy on social media, which included her suggestion of a fan boycott after the Dallas Cowboys attempted to institute a national anthem policy and calling the president a white supremacist<\/a>. The president fired back at her by name on Twitter, and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders called for her to be fired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last winter, James was just as direct, responding to Trump\u2019s criticism of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors\u2019 decision not to visit the White House with a tweet that began with \u201cU bum\u201d <\/a>and culminated by saying, \u201cGoing to the White House was a great honor until you showed up.\u201d As might be expected for one of the most famous people in the world\u2014 over 41 million followers and counting\u2014James\u2019 tweet was the platform\u2019s most-shared of 2017.<\/p>\n

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Controversy, in both cases, ensued. But so did a connection between two members of this club, and one result was \u201cShut Up and Dribble,\u201d which debuts Saturday on Showtime. Produced by James and his partner Maverick Carter and featuring Hill\u2019s narration, the three-part documentary looks at the NBA not only as a cultural force, but one that stands unique among American sports leagues for its history of activism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe game itself also has always lent itself to individual expression, but the financial structure is very important,\u201d says Hill, who worked at the Detroit Free Press and Orlando Sentinel before joining ESPN. \u201cThere are many dynamics in which players have more power than their coaches, their GMs and, in some cases \u2014 like LeBron James \u2014 even their owners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe NBA was ripe for athletes feeling comfortable to express who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The notion is reflected in \u201cShut Up and Dribble,\u201d where at one point league commissioner Adam Silver describes feeling \u201cincredibly proud\u201d as players spoke out about issues important to them, which included James posing in dark hoodies with his Miami Heat teammates after the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin and a poignant, all-star address to open the 2016 ESPYs, where James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony advocated for greater athlete engagement with social issues.<\/p>\n

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Such sentiments have been subsequently echoed in remarks by championship-winning coaches such as the Warriors\u2019 Steve Kerr and Gregg Popovich of the Spurs. But, as the documentary shows, such support wasn\u2019t always the norm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Roughly a year and a half in the making, \u201cShut Up and Dribble\u201d began as a look at the NBA as a powerful pop cultural force, calling on voices such as Justin Timberlake and Kendrick Lamar to speak to its influence. That narrative changed earlier this year after Fox News host Laura Ingraham provided the show with its title when she directed James to stay out of politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey call these things \u2018unscripted\u2019 for a reason,\u201d said series director Gotham Chopra, who also directed the sports docs \u201cTom vs. Time\u201d and \u201cKobe Bryant\u2019s Muse.\u201d \u201cI think [social consciousness] is all buried into the genesis of the league. … Athletes like Bill Russell and Oscar Robertson, who, as much as they were part of the league, they were also civil rights activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With that narrative in mind, Hill became the natural choice as the central voice of the project. The Detroit-raised Hill was already on board as one of the documentary\u2019s voices about the 2004 brawl between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons dubbed \u201cMalice at the Palace.\u201d But she was still in the process of departing ESPN, which would likely take issue with her narrating a documentary with such a clear point of view.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was like, \u2018Just give me a couple of weeks,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201c[The documentary] really caught me off guard but it was something I embraced because I believe in the story they\u2019re trying to tell. As everybody in this town is particularly aware, LeBron James is really doubling down in this area at this time in his career. I mean, he’s a made man in the sports world, and just to see his evolution in terms of him finding his voice, feeling so empowered to use it, and by extension empowering other athletes and other people, period \u2014 so much of this project, it made sense for me to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hill\u2019s recent trajectory can be seen in a similar light. Just three days into her own move to L.A. when we spoke, she recently started a production company with a scripted series in the works that\u2019s loosely based on her longtime friendship with fellow writer Kelley L. Carter of ESPN\u2019s \u201cThe Undefeated,\u201d and there are plans for Hill to host her own sports and culture podcast. That\u2019s in addition to a new job with the Atlantic, which hired her as a writer shortly after she left ESPN.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTwenty-one years in this business as a professional, I\u2019ve earned the right to be closely aligned in terms of values with whoever I choose to do business with,\u201d Hill says. \u201cYou don\u2019t always get that. ESPN and I were pretty close in that regard \u2014 until we weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And while the NBA stands out in professional sports with its support for stars making political statements, that wasn\u2019t always the case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As shown in \u201cShut Up and Dribble,\u201d the league was marred by its own institutional racism that included a controversial dress code that was in part a reaction to the Sixers\u2019 Allen Iverson, whose fierce individuality lent the league a hip-hop swagger on and off the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the \u201990s, endorsement-minded stars like Michael Jordan weren\u2019t so interested in rocking the boat, and players like Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Craig Hodges were treated as harshly for their statements as the NFL\u2019s Colin Kaepernick, who remains out of the league since protesting racial inequality by kneeling during the national anthem.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[NBA owners] have actually learned from their mistakes; I\u2019ll give them credit for that,\u201d Hill says. \u201cThere\u2019s a part of me that has some skepticism. I think so much of it has to do with LeBron because he is who he is, and how he\u2019s chosen to use his voice. Because, make no mistake, this league might feel differently if the best player were less outspoken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Though offering a three-hour snapshot of a sprawling subject, \u201cShut Up and Dribble\u201d expresses how the NBA has functioned as a societal mirror in a way that baseball, football and hockey rarely achieve. The NBA particularly stands in stark contrast to the NFL, with its emphasis on conformity and conservative values.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPart of it too is how the NFL has always marketed itself,\u201d Hill says. \u201cYou talk to a lot of NFL coaches and they will describe the sport as \u2018faith, family, football.\u2019 And because the NFL has always doubled down as a value-oriented league, that\u2019s why it feels the way that it does.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe NBA has always been about melding and meshing cultures,\u201d Hill adds. \u201cThat league, as long as the dynamic remains this way, is just going to feel a lot different and a lot more inclusive than the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bookended by Ingraham\u2019s comments, \u201cShut Up and Dribble\u201d is also striking as a document of how fans, journalists and political figures have long spoken to athletes. You can see it in the steely, impossibly patient look on Russell\u2019s face as he\u2019s asked whether he can be \u201cobjective\u201d as the first black coach in the NBA, as well as in Oscar Robertson\u2019s eyes as he testified before Congress in hearings that led to free agency for players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt just puts into context how black athletes in one way or another have always been sent the message, \u2018Don\u2019t you have it good enough?\u2019\u201d Hill says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhile we have made some progress, it still does remind everybody of how dangerously close we are to what we used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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