{"id":912993,"date":"2026-10-02T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:26:15","slug":"dubai-basketball-doc-in-the-works-from-tom-bradys-shadow-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/912993\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Basketball Doc In The Works From Tom Brady’s Shadow Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Shadow Lion<\/a>, the company founded by NFL legend Tom Brady<\/a>, is working on a new documentary chronicling Dubai Basketball\u2019s championship rise.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company has set Yalla, Dubai: From Startup to Championship, a documentary that follows the team from its launch in 2023 to becoming ABA League champions in their second full season.<\/p>\n

\n\tDubai Basketball, which was founded by chairman Abdulla Saeed Juma Al Naboodah and general manager Dejan Kamenja\u0161evi\u0107, won the ABA League title after defeating Partizan 3-1 in the finals in June.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film features roughly 40 terabytes of archival material and newly captured footage from Dubai, Slovenia and beyond and will feature interviews with Abdulla Saeed Juma Al Naboodah, Kamenja\u0161evi\u0107, former head coach Aleksander Sekuli\u0107, current head coach Xavi Pascual, captain Klemen Prepeli\u010d, NBA veteran D\u0101vis Bert\u0101ns and Dubai Basketball\u2019s global ambassador Tristan Thompson.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is directed by Sami Khan (Starting 5), who exec produces alongside Shadow Lion\u2019s Gilad Haas, Jeff Fine, Lior Haas, David Zabinsky and Philip Byron. Graham McKay and Dan Levy serve as co-executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re excited to tell this extraordinary and largely untold story,\u201d said Haas, co-founder of Shadow Lion. \u201cAt Shadow Lion, we\u2019re drawn to stories that transcend the game itself, and Dubai Basketball is a remarkable example of that. This is a team built from the ground up by people who came together around a shared love of a sport they each grew up playing in different corners of the globe. The deeper you go, the more compelling the story becomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKhan added, \u201cDubai Basketball\u2019s story has all the elements of a great sports film \u2013 an impossible ambition, a group of outsiders, enormous setbacks and an improbable championship. But what struck me most is how personal this story is for the people who built and became part of this team. Their journey reflects something much larger about Dubai and the idea of coming from somewhere else to pursue a dream. It\u2019s an honor to have the opportunity to tell that story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDubai Basketball\u2019s Al Naboodah said, \u201cDubai Basketball was created with a clear ambition: to build something for Dubai and that can reflect the values of Dubai on the international stage. Winning the ABA League in only our second season was an important moment for Dubai Basketball, but also another step in a much bigger journey. This documentary gives people the opportunity to see how that journey started and the work behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Shadow Lion, the company founded by NFL legend Tom Brady, is working on a new documentary chronicling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,480616,30663,480617],"class_list":["post-912993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-shadow-lion","tag-tom-brady","tag-yalla-dubai-from-startup-to-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}