'Summer Dreams' on CBS tonight 8pm

[Sam Peel]

On Saturday, March 15, at 8 p.m. ET, CBS will air the documentary Summer Dreams. The documentary profiles the lives of six people during the NBA Summer League in Orlando and Las Vegas. The film profiles two drafted NBA players, guards Michael Carter Williams and Shane Larkin, two undrafted players trying to make rosters in Romero Osby and Dwayne Davis, D-League coach Joel Abelson who was fired on draft night by the Sioux Falls Syforce, and prospective official Lauren Holtkamp.

While the story uses their stories as the centerpiece, the orbit of the film shows the lives of those around them as much as their own. Kasheef Festus is Davis' best friend and manager, it shows the support he tries to provide Davis through the process of trying to land a job. Shane Larkin's mother shows a sensitive side with the pain she feels when Larkin goes down in a practice before Summer League even begins, weeks after the Mavericks load up on other point guards.

"What the film really says and shows is at the end, when the lights go out and the ball stops bouncing, it's about the people behind us and beside us that matter," senior producer Mason Gordon said.

If the NBA Finals are the gleamine spire in the palace of basketball, Summer League in Las Vegas is the marketplace.

 

[Kaydigi]

Only watching because of the pic posted

 

[Wacky D]

mad random. since when they start showing this type chit?

i guess i'll check it out when they eventually show re-runs of it on cbs-sports. i'd be too busy watching march madness just like anybody else thats remotely interested. whos bright idea was it for them to put this on tv tonight?

 

[UserNameless]

Fukkin' with it so far... good behind the scenes look. The homie from Philly, tho...


a soldier when you see him... Story's too real.

 

[MikelArteta]

Only watching because of the pic posted

 

[MikelArteta]

frckle face mom knowledgeable of the game

 

[UserNameless]

I wonder if he apologized.

frckle face mom knowledgeable of the game

She used to hoop.

 

[UserNameless]

he sonned him in that interview.

 

[TH29]

Documentary has been really good so far. Definitely gives a nice behind the scenes look at the NBA. I think it is dope that they gave you all the different perspectives. A man trying to become a coach, the woman trying to become the second female ref in the NBA, the summer league prospects, and also the perspective from a parent who has a child in the league.