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  • 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z on ESPN
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Executive produced by Spike Lee, Spike Lee's Lil' Joints will showcase stories that are personally curated by Lee, with the majority revolving around African-American stories that are not widely known. Bringing these unique sports tales to life is a roster of up-and-coming as well as renowned filmmakers that Lee assembled.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

1x01 Ray Allen / AKA-Jesus Shuttlesworth

Series Premiere

1x01 Ray Allen / AKA-Jesus Shuttlesworth

  • 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z1m

Spike Lee takes us into the world of NBA nicknames, focusing on how Ray Allen's starring role in Lee's 'He Got Game' forever associated him with his character, Jesus Shuttlesworth.

2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

1x02 Italian Imports

1x02 Italian Imports

  • 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z1m

Kobe Bryant and Tamika Catchings reminisce about their Italian days together, when both of their dads played in Italy, and talk about how the experience fueled their drive to succeed.

2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

1x03 The Greatest Catch Ever

1x03 The Greatest Catch Ever

  • 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z1m

During Super Bowl XLII, the Giants met with the New England Patriots who were undefeated going into the NFL finale. With two minutes left in the game, just when it looks like the Giants quarterback Eli Manning will go down, he spots David Tyree, a veteran special teams player down the field and goes deep, setting up one of the most renowned plays in football history.

2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

1x04 Black Hoosiers

1x04 Black Hoosiers

  • 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z1m

Crispus Attucks High School in Indianapolis, which was created to marginalize African-Americans, became a beacon of education and athletics. The player at the heart of its two-time state championship basketball team was none other than Oscar Robertson.

2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

1x05 The Ice Breaker

1x05 The Ice Breaker

  • 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z1m

Inspirational story of the man who broke the color barrier in professional hockey and secretly played his career, blind in one eye. For more than a decade, O’Ree has been the director of youth development for the NHL’s diversity program, helping to introduce more inner city youth to a game that has seen short numbers that represent them.

1x06 Of the Father and of the Son

  • 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z1m

This short is latest chapter in a compelling family saga - the tale of sixty-two year old David Robinson, the youngest child of civil rights hero Jackie Robinson, and the life he has built as a farmer in Africa. Robinson has spent the last 30 years assimilating entirely into African culture; raising a family thousands of miles from the Brooklyn streets where his father built a legend, the lily-white suburbs of Connecticut where he was raised and the upscale American businesses that serve his product and fuel his mission - using the world's second-most-valuable natural...

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