Meet the basketball GOAT you’ve never heard of. Before Kobe and LeBron James, there was Lusia Harris. Harris was a pioneer in women’s basketball in the 1970s.
The movie is a touching first-hand account from Lucy herself about her life on the court and what might have been.
Her resume includes 3 National Women’s college basketball champions and an Olympic silver medal during the 1976 Montreal Olympics for Team USA.
As the first woman ever drafted to the NBA by the then New Orleans Jazz, Harris turned the offer down. The timing was off as Harris was transitioning from college to get married and to start a family. Harris thinks that maybe if the WMBA was around at the time she might have continued her career still she has no regrets about not joining the NBA. She lists the accomplishments of her four children.
She looks back to the male players that were playing in her day. They all went on the play professional basketball, get famous and make lots of money. Harris went on to teach and coach basketball at her old high school alma mater.
Harris was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and was escorted by her favorite all-time player, Oscar Robinson.
The Queen of Basketball
23 mins | United States | 2021
Director: Ben Proudfoot
Producers: Elizabeth Brooke, Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabriel Berk Godoi, Brandon Somerhalder, Sarah Stewart, Jeremy Lambert
This film is part of the Shorts Program: SHORT LIST BLOCK #2: SPORTSLIST
Language: English
Lusia Harris, the first woman ever drafted to the NBA, takes a seat and shares her story as a woman before her time and a legend in the women’s basketball community.
DOC NYC Festival 2021
