Ben Proudfoot accepts the award for finest documentary quick topic for “The Queen of Basketball” on the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
The Utah Jazz had been tangentially concerned in a victory on the Oscars on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
The award for finest documentary quick topic went to “The Queen of Basketball,” which documented how Lusia “Lucy” Harris grew to become the primary — and solely up to now — lady to get drafted by an NBA workforce when she was chosen by the New Orleans Jazz with the 137th total choose in 1977.
The Jazz moved from New Orleans to Utah in 1979.
The movie, which is roughly 22 minutes in size and directed by Ben Proudfoot (he accepted the award Sunday), debuted in the summertime of 2021, and Harris died in January of this yr on the age of 66.
Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry had been govt producers.
Beside holding the excellence of being the one lady ever drafted by an NBA workforce, Harris grew to become the primary Black lady inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 1992.
You possibly can watch the movie right here.