New Netflix Documentary The Redeem Team Features Krzyzewski '69

The Redeem Team, is the thrilling new Netflix documentary about the United States’s recovery of its rightful gold medal in men’s basketball in Beijing. The Redeem Team becomes an unexpectedly intimate dual portrait of maybe the two leading basketball titans of the 21st century. One of them, Mike Krzyzewski '69, coached his last game earlier this year. The other, Kobe Bryant, died alongside his young daughter in a helicopter crash in January of 2020. The film depicts the height of an era. At no moment does Duke University skipper Krzyzewski '69, a middle-aged West Point graduate and then-winner of three national championships, seem the slightest bit overmatched by Dwyane, LeBron, Kobe, or the other one-name multimillionaires under his charge. In team meetings, Coach K is unfailingly calm, even slightly monotone — he’s “a coach from the Army,” as the sportswriter Bill Plaschke describes him. In the name of ultimate victory, Krzyzewski '69 persuades a collection of showboats with athletic shoes named after them to adopt the high pick-and-roll style of the international game. Read more.