‘Love & Basketball’ with Jordan Robinson

Episode 9

Four quarters, two players, one game for your heart. No movie in this sports-romance series creates team chemistry between the “sports” and “romance” genres quite like LOVE & BASKETBALL.

Podcaster, sports journalist, and former college hooper Jordan Robinson joins the program to discuss the movie’s on-court realism, athlete couples, the enormous pressures on college basketball players, and the LOVE & BASKETBALL character she finally feels bad for two decades later.

Listen to Jordan’s WNBA podcast, Queens of the Court, with basketball legend Sheryl Swoopes.

Read her 2020 remembrance of Love & Basketball, featuring countless great interviews.

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