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Death at the Wing, a new podcast from Academy Award-winner Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries and Three Uncanny Four Productions, in partnership with Sony Music Entertainment, premiered and the first two episodes are available now.
The series focuses on how basketball, politics, and socioeconomics in the 1980’s led to a number of untimely deaths of rising basketball prospects, with Len Bias being the most famous example.
Each episode is done in documentary style and tells the story of one player, their tragedy, and the forces behind it.
McKay conducted interviews with experts, journalists, and former players, including NBA Hall of Famer Jerry West, journalist and author of Basketball: A Love Story Jackie MacMullan, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, professor of critical stories Dr. Todd Boyd, and The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer.
Adam McKay said, “I’ve been an NBA junkie pretty much my whole life and have always been haunted by the amazing young talents we tragically lost in the 1980’s into the 90’s. Once we dove in, it became obvious the tragic stories of these young, mostly African American men, are really the story of what happened to America over the last 40 years.