For those NBA fans who haven't already seen it, ESPN 30 for 30 films' recently debuted "This Magic Moment" - about the 1992 through 1996 Orlando Magic - is a must watch. Like all of 30 for 30's terrific documentaries about the NBA and other sports, "This Magic Moment" dives deep into the backstory of how the Shaquille O'Neal / Anfernee Hardaway Magic squad was built and all the highs and lows that came about during that unforgettable but brief era in Orlando Magic history.
Just as I felt after watching other amazing must-see 30 for 30's focused on basketball like 2014's "Bad Boys" (about the late-1980s / early 1990s Detroit Pistons) and "When the Garden was Eden" (about the early 1970s New York Knicks), 2013's "Bernie and Ernie" (about the relationship between Tennessee and NBA alums Bernard King and Ernie Grunfeld), 2011's "The Fab Five" (about Michigan basketball's early 1990s super team of freshmen) and "The Announcement" (about Magic Johnson's 1991 HIV announcement), and 2010's "Winning Time: Reggie Miller versus the New York Knicks" and "Once Brothers" (about Serbian native Vlade Divac's relationship with Croatian native Drazen Petrovic .