The Queen of Basketball

Directed by Ben Proudfoot · Starring Lusia Harris · 2021

Lusia Harris, the first woman officially drafted by the NBA and an Olympic pioneer, tells her own story of glory and obscurity.

Oscar-winning portrait of a forgotten basketball legend, told with warmth and humor by Harris herself.

Update (Jan. 18): Lusia Harris — a pioneering athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s, made history as the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics and was one of the first two women inducted into th

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