Lusia 'Lucy' Harris' remarkable basketball career was never spotlighted in a way it deserved, Shaquille O'Neal says. “The Queen of Basketball,” a documentary about Harris, fills in that major missing gap in basketball history.
Lusia"Lucy" Harris won three straight college basketball championships with her team in the 1970s. She represented the U.S. at the 1976 Olympics and was drafted by a team in the NBA.of Harris and her outstanding achievements. She narrates her own story — like how at one time she was the greatest woman basketball player in the U.S. — in the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Queen of Basketball,” directed by Ben Proudfoot and produced for The New York Times: Op-Docs.
“Her kids have never seen the footage,” O’Neal says, “so when they saw the documentary, there were tears everywhere.” “Listen, I've seen a lot of great women basketball players, but the fact that I've never heard of this woman, I think it was a shame,” he says. “I wasn't really close to anybody on the team,” she says in the film. “But once we got on that floor, you couldn't tell.”O’Neal wanted to celebrate Harris’ story of triumph in sports, similar to the experiences of other greats like Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell and, because they paved the way for athletes today. These athletes not only had to excel in their sport but also had to fight against racism, discrimination and misogyny, he says.
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