On Valentine’s Day 1993, 17-year-old Bethel High School basketball star Allen Iverson was bowling in Hampton, Va., with five high school friends. It was supposed to be an ordinary evening, but it became a night that defined Iverson’s young life. A quarrel soon erupted into a brawl pitting Iverson’s young black friends against a group of white patrons. The fallout from the fight and the handling of the subsequent trial landed the teenager—considered by some the nation’s best high school athlete—in jail and sharply divided the city along racial lines. Oscar nominee Steve James (“Hoop Dreams”) returns to his hometown of Hampton, where he once played basketball, to take a personal look at this still-disputed incident and examine its impact on Iverson and the shared community.
http://30for30.espn.com/film/no-crossov ... erson.html
You can watch the preview by clicking on that link.
It is especially interesting because the filmmaker is from the same town Iverson is from, and has a front row perspective.
It premieres on Tuesday at 8 pm est on ESPN.
It also re-airs at 11 pm est, and on Thursday on ESPN2 at 9:30 pm est. That link also includes additional air times.
