"Supreme Courts: A Century of D.C.-Area Basketball" Documentary Trailer

From indoor gyms to outdoor playgrounds, the prospective documentary Supreme Courts: A Century of D.C.-Area Basketball would relate the game's transformative historic, social, racial, cultural and athletic impacts on the city, the nation, the world. The envisaged 156-minute film, conceived by D.C. basketball historian Pennington Greene in conjunction with Emmy Award-winning producer Metro Teleproductions and writer Vinnie Perrone, would chronicle in six 26-minute segments the sport's sprawling, prepotent growth story through scores of interviews with those who played, coached, managed and organized the competitions. High school, AAU and college games, sure; also, the rough-and-tumble Summer League hardtop classics that spawned future stars and legendary tales. These visual and vocal yarns weave a broader tapestry that depicts the basketball court as sanctuary, proving ground and civic mecca, a place where hope and jump-shots trace distinctive arcs amid changing social landscapes.