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EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Chris Paul and Wu-Tang Clan leader RZA have boarded RTG Features and Victory Creative Group’s basketball documentary Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew as executive producers, ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere at the Urbanworld Film Festival, slated for…

“Our league definitely got this wrong,” wrote LeBron James today just hours after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver went before the media to try and contain the fallout over what many consider too-mild sanctions on Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for his reported sexist, racist and abusive behavior toward subordinates…

EXCLUSIVE: Grammy winners Roddy Ricch (“The Box”), Ella Mai (“Boo’d Up”) and Macy Gray (“I Try”) have signed on to star in the animated feature, Sneaks, with five-time nominee Swae Lee (“Sunflower”) and NBA superstar Chris Paul also joining the cast. As previously announced, Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne will…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA star Chris Paul’s production company, Ohh Dip!!!, is teaming up with format specialist Parker Paige Media on a new competition series format called Playdate. The show features a multi-generational set of challenges involving fish-out-of-water activities. The comedic format pits teams of two — one senior…

EXCLUSIVE: Tori Sampson has been tapped to pen the biopic 61, which is being developed by Disney Studios' live-action team for Disney+. Chris Paul and his brother C.J. are producing. No director or talent is attached at this time. Announced this past December at the Disney Investor Day presentation, the pic is based…

Chris Paul, an 11-time NBA All-Star with a sizable off-court portfolio, has joined “media flow management” software firm Greenfly as a strategic investor. Paul is described as a “power user” of Greenfly’s services, as a player as well as in his charity work and as former president of the NBA Players Association. He…

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 50 points on Tuesday night to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA Championship in 50 years. Only six other players have scored 50 points or more in the NBA Finals. Only one other player has done it to clinch the title: Bob Petit had 50 in 1958 to win it all for the (then) St. Louis…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Chris Paul has partnered with PlayersTV and UBS for Front Office, a series focused the behind-the-scenes business strategy and wealth management in the sports world. A product of a multi-year global media sponsorship between PlayersTV and UBS, Front Office is a 10-episode series executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Hustlers, STXfilms looks to have found a project in the vein of that box-office smash and has teamed with two of Hollywood’s biggest rising stars on it. Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson and Straight Outta Compton‘s O’Shea Jackson Jr. are set to co-star in American Sole, a…

Spring 2014 undoubtedly will be counted as a watershed moment in NBA history. The racial comments that were made public from former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling set in motion events that changed the league in unprecedented ways. Now Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers, along with players including…

EXCLUSIVE: NBA All-Star Chris Paul is teaming up with Roadside Entertainment to produce a docuseries rooted in basketball programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The show will unfold over the course of the 2020-21 season, with exact participants and schools still to be determined. The goal is…

Centered on seismic events in the NBA in the spring of 2014, Blackballed tells a story of race, power and hubris through the eyes of the Los Angeles Clippers’ players and coach. When a tape surfaced of then-team owner Donald Sterling spewing racial stereotypes, it set in motion events that changed the NBA — and sports…