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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4342277, member: 833"]
[B]Rise (2022) [/B]- This is a Giannis Antetekuomnpo biopic.  It is focused on his parents' struggle with being immigrants, and I was disappointed the movie didn't focus more on how 1 in a trillion the Giannis story is in terms of going from the Greek version of the G League straight to the NBA.  I have heard several interviews about the Bucks' scouting of Giannis, and it is possible that neither the Bucks' GM or Director of Scouting at the time had ever seen Giannis play when they drafted him #15.

Since we all know what happens, there isn't really a spoiler, but the movie creates this artificial tension about what would happen if Giannis is not picked at 15, when I am pretty sure the Hawks would have picked him at 17 or 18.  That isn't really the important part though.  It feels like the insanity of the Bucks picking someone at 15 that no senior person in the organization had seen play deserved more exploration.  I also wonder if part of the reason the Bucks picked a no-name from Greece was that the 2013 draft was such a dumpster fire overall.
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