Monday night at 8 p.m., the premiere of the long-awaited Eddie Sutton documentary will take place on ESPN. The documentary, simply called “Eddie” (of course), is a window into Sutton’s long and winding coaching career on and off the court, spanning from his brief-but-successful Kentucky tenure, his long and successful Oklahoma State tenure, his Hall of Fame snubs and subsequent acceptance on nomination No. 7, and more.
I can’t wait to watch it and I’ve been thinking about it all week. Here are five things I’m excited to see.
1. The bad and the good
As good as “The Last Dance” miniseries was that ESPN aired this spring — the 10-part documentary highlighting Michael Jordan’s final season with the Chicago Bulls — it’s hard to watch it and call it anything other than a promotional film that favored M.