I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 42 Basketball and Baseball
On the morning of October 10, Jordan Peele woke up from his bachelor apartment.

Get up, wash, get dressed, go downstairs and drive to Honey Training Camp, the training center of the Los Angeles Clippers, located in Southwest Los Angeles.

Open the car window, the morning air is very fresh, and the breeze is blowing, but Peel feels a little dazed.

It's not because he just woke up in the morning and his head is not clear, but he still can't believe that he passed the interview and became the director, screenwriter, and planner of the Los Angeles Clippers documentary.

Peale was born in New York and went to an ordinary university, majoring in computer science.

But he has no interest in computers. His hobbies are movies, comedies, and suspense dramas.

In order to realize his dream in film and television, he chose to drop out of school, and partnered with his good friend Rebecca to form a comedy duo to create comedy scripts. At the same time, he was an extra actor and participated in some small-production movies and TV shows.

At first they looked for opportunities in Chicago. In 2003, they joined Madtv, a spoof TV show on Fox TV, and came to Los Angeles together, where Peele met his partner actor Michael Key.

Last year, Peele and Key left the madtv crew, expecting to be able to play on a wider stage. They have always hoped to make a set of their own comedy series.

Rebecca already has relevant ideas and scripts, which is to use daily life and various film and television dramas as blueprints to carry out secondary creation and deconstruction, and use exaggerated techniques to achieve satirical comedy effects.

But everything is still brewing, they need to find an investor, and Fox TV has little interest in this kind of short film, thinking it is too old-fashioned and boring, and there will be no response.

Peele had to keep making guest appearances in soap operas, pulp comedies, and parodies, waiting for a good opportunity to flex his talents.

In September, he learned through a friend of the TV station that the Los Angeles Clippers were looking for a director to shoot a promotional documentary for the team. Peele was not interested in this, and sports documentaries were not his field.

But then he learned that the Clippers' requirements were very strange. First, they had ample funds, with 1000 million US dollars available for deployment; second, they didn't want a well-known and excellent documentary director; But eclectic, you can give full play to your creativity and ideas.

Hearing this, Peale moved his mind. As a black man who grew up in New York, basketball is an important part of black culture.

There were so many interesting ideas and ideas coming out about basketball, Peele thought maybe me and my partner could give it a try?

Since the Los Angeles Clippers have won Stephen Curry in the draft, it seems that there is nothing wrong with letting a comedian to make a documentary!
If he succeeds in getting this job, Peel feels that he can save the country with curves, and use this documentary to practice, integrate his creativity and ideas into the shooting, and blend it into a unique promotional documentary.

Of course, what's more important is that having a job that you can lead is much better than playing tricks, guest appearances, or imitation shows in different crews every day.

Peele's dream is to be a director and screenwriter, not just a funny character, he has talent and ambition.

But the interview with the media director of the Clippers made Peale feel that it was useless. The interview lasted only 5 minutes. The fat man didn't even take a look at his carefully written planning book. There were many interesting script designs in it, which were tailor-made for NBA players. .

The few questions I asked made Peale feel that he was useless. He had no good works, no documentary filming experience, and a deep understanding of the NBA and basketball... No play, no play.

At that time, he thought that he should be an actor with peace of mind, and continue to endure, and one day he will make it through.

A week after the interview, when Peele had put the matter behind him and decided to star in the Fox comedy The station, a phone call pulled him from reality to the cloud.

The person who called him was none other than Smart Min, the new general manager of the Los Angeles Clippers. Peele had heard a lot about his story in the past two months.

Smart Min is the darling of the Los Angeles sports media this summer. There are all kinds of rumors and rumors about him almost every day. He is about to become a "legend" in the Los Angeles sports world.

The draft gave up Griffin to take Curry in 5 minutes, the team got a 20.00% salary increase on the first day of taking office, spent a lot of money to live in a luxury hotel in the summer league, left the cancerous Randolph, did nothing in the free market, and signed no one on the last day A short forward who wants to play 2K in the office every day, a 2K to rule the team...

Peele, who doesn't pay much attention to basketball, knows Smart's name.

And Smart told him on the phone that the Clippers would invite him to be the producer of the team's documentary, Peale couldn't believe his ears.

"I... I became a documentary producer?"

"That's right, it's up to you. You can come when the team starts training camp on October 10st, bring your camera crew, take some shots, and let the players cooperate...Anyway, you can shoot whatever you want. How to shoot, I will give you enough freedom."

"Then why don't you take a look at my plan..."

"No! I chose you because I absolutely believe in your talent. Show it to the fullest, Jordan. In the field of basketball, Jordan is the best symbol. Come on, buddy!"

After speaking, the other party hung up the phone, and Peel wondered if it was a prank by some friend?

So he called Rob Richley to confirm that he had passed the interview, and then he knew it was not a dream or a prank.

In this way, he became the chief planner, director, screenwriter and producer of the Los Angeles Clippers new season promotional documentary.

With 1000 million US dollars of funds at his disposal, and the salary is also calculated separately, this is simply a biscuit that fell from the sky.

At 09:30 in the morning, Peele arrived at the Clippers' training center, along with his good partner, friend Michael Key, creative partner Rebecca, and a film crew borrowed from Fox TV.

One of them is named Michael, the other is named Jordan, and together they are called Michael Jordan. Peele even thought, is it because of their names that the general manager of the Clippers chose them?

Rob Richley was still sweating when he received them. Seeing Peele, he said, "We met again, by the way, what's your name? Let me see the memo..."

Peele hurriedly said: "Peele, Jordan Peele, this is my partner Michael Key."

"Jordan Peele, Michael Key, together they are Michael Jordan, your names are really good. Because of your names, Mr. Smart chose you to be the planner and director of the documentary .Hey, our general manager is so unconstrained and unconstrained."

Jordan Peele and Michael Key looked at each other. Is this true or a joke? Is this Mr. Smart so bohemian and doing whatever he wants?
"The players will train in the morning, and the training will end at [-]:[-] in the afternoon. After the training, you can ask the players to cooperate with you to take some shots. However, you can't shoot during the official training process. The tactics are confidential. By the way, Peel, what did you say before, you want to shoot A short play? Is there a script?"

Jordan Peele hurriedly said: "Yes, of course there is. At that time, the players may be required to participate in the performance. It won't be very long, and it doesn't need too professional acting skills, can it?"

"Of course! If you have any other requirements, you can tell Mr. Smart at noon, and he will come over for dinner at noon. What will be the names of these basketball skits you want to film?"

"Uh, because Michael will be in all the skits, the tentative title is——"Basketball and Kee."

"Basketball and base? Yes, it's a good name."

(End of this chapter)