Credit director Antoine Fuqua for being very aware that the documentary he started off making inThe Day Sports Stood Still is not, in fact, the documentary that will premiere on HBO on Wednesday (March 24) night.
Twice in the 85-minute film, Fuqua plays the same Chris Paul quote about how when they originally talked about doing the doc, its focus was primarily the impact of COVID-19 on the sports world.
From there, Fuqua and Paul couldn't have predicted the volatile summer of 2020 as, even with the pandemic still spreading, a movement for social action shook the country — one that had sports as a key rallying point.
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