{"id":246634,"date":"2025-08-23T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/246634\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T08:30:14","slug":"kobe-bryant-nba-draft-movie-with-the-8th-pick-in-the-works-at-warner-bros-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/246634\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Bryant NBA Draft Movie \u2018With The 8th Pick\u2019 in the Works at Warner Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Brothers. has acquired the spec script \u201cWith The 8th Pick,\u201d about the behind-the-scenes 1996 NBA drafting of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1101483\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0569744\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TheWrap<\/a> has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The script was written by <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3972276\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Sohn<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3831755\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Johannsen<\/a>. The projects is being described as \u201cSocial Network\u201d meets \u201cAir\u201d meets \u201cMoneyball\u201d with a thriller bent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith The 8th Pick\u201d centers on New Jersey Nets Gm <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1171285\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Nash<\/a> and newly-appointed head coach <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1998435\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Calipari<\/a>, as the story explores their pursuit of Kobe Bryant as Calipari\u2019s inaugural NBA draft selection.<\/p>\n<p>No director is currently attached to the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9620288\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King Richard<\/a>\u201d producers Tim and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0925544\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor White<\/a> of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0306981\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Star Thrower Entertainment<\/a> are attached to produce along with Religion of Sports\u2019 <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3781821\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Stowell<\/a> and Gotham Chopra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Brothers. has acquired the spec script \u201cWith The 8th Pick,\u201d about the behind-the-scenes 1996 NBA drafting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[612,24323,41876,7,355,41877,41875,3442,6490,6,12,67,3562,2658],"class_list":{"0":"post-246634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-tv","9":"tag-actors","10":"tag-actresses","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-directors","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-draft","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115077147767296040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}