- 2008
- Laemmle/Zeller Films
- 1 h 26 m
SummaryDavid Vyorst’s documentary The First Basket explores the impact that basketball had on modern Jewish history, as well as the profound influence that unsung Jewish pioneers had on the evolution of basketball, as it grew from a game played with ash-cans on tenement steps to the second most popular sport in the world. Though basketball was invented ...
Directed By:David Vyorst
The First Basket
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Uncovers a fascinating and largely forgotten chapter of the game's history that is well worth revisiting.
By Sam Adams
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A valuable reminder that for nearly three decades, basketball was dominated by Jewish players - and coaches who found the sport an ideal vehicle for assimilation in the United States.
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The First Basket is more than a triumphalist screw-you to those who think Jews don't play sports.
By Ella Taylor
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The First Basket, a functional (if narrowly interesting) history lesson by the filmmaker David Vyorst, recollects the rich history of Jewish participation in basketball.
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A humorless, relentlessly ethnocentric docu about Jews in basketball.
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