Jake Rogal, the director of Netflix's "Court of Gold" docu-series on the 2024 Paris Olympic basketball tournament

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 477 of the Sports Media Podcast features Jake Rogal, the director of Netflix's "Court of Gold" terrific docu-series on the 2024 Paris Olympic basketball tournament. The documentary is currently steaming on the service. In this documentary, Rogal discusses his six-part series on the 2024 Paris Olympic men's basketball tournament; the decision to follow four Olympic men’s basketball teams — USA, Canada, Serbia, and France; how the production got incredible access; remarkable footage such as Nikola Jokic at halftime of the game against the U.S. diagramming a play involving Steph Curry and Joel Embiid and LeBron James drinking beer with his coaches; remarkable interviews with Kevin Durant, Curry, Nicholas Batum, Bogdan Bogdanović, and Dillian Brooks among others and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:11.0	Try for free today at Asana.com. Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this podcast, but you're a basketball fan, particularly an NBA fan.
0:39.2	This is a must-see.
0:42.8	I think people who listen to this podcast know that I'm not going to bullshit you.
0:50.1	But Court of Gold, which is a six-part docu-series on the 2024 Paris Olympic basketball tournament,
1:03.0	which is coming out on Netflix this week, follows four Olympic men's basketball teams at the 2024 Olympics, the United States, Canada, Serbia, and France as they chase a medal. If you watch those Olympics, some of the most extraordinary basketball games we've ever seen, particularly the U.S. versus Serbia and then the U.S.
1:11.0	versus France.
1:12.7	My guest today is Jake Rogal.
1:15.0	He is the director of Court of Gold.
1:18.3	And this documentary has some of the most unbelievable access that you will ever see when
1:24.9	it comes to a basketball movie.
1:27.1	And I'm pleased to be joined by Jake Rogal.
1:29.6	Jake, welcome. Thanks for having me, Richard. Man, I'm psyched to be here. And I appreciate all the kind
1:34.3	words. It means a lot to me. So thank you for doing this. It's a good, you read that well from your
1:39.4	Netflix publicist, Jake. Good of me. All right.
1:45.0	So let's start here.
1:45.3	You know,
1:45.7	obviously,
1:46.0	listen,
1:46.5	you,
1:47.1	you know,
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