When reports began circulating over the weekend that a Kobe Bryant biopic was in the works, it came with some surprise and many questions. However, as it turns out, it’s not a about Bryant’s career or life, but instead a very specific, and interesting, aspect of it.

Deadline, who initially reported the news, added the context and details as to what the movie would be about.

We’ve confirmed that Alex Sohn and Gavin Johannsen‘s spec screenplay With the 8th Pick, about the behind-the-scenes 1996 NBA drafting of Kobe Bryant, has landed at Warner Bros. There is no director attached as of yet.

The project is told from the point of view of John Nash, the general manager of the New Jersey Nets, and incoming Nets coach John Calipari, who really wanted Bryant. However, the New Jersey was a broke

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