ORLANDO - About 25 seconds into the trailer, a middle school-aged Cole Anthony says, “I’m happiest in the world when I get to play basketball – a whole bunch, like a lot.”
The two-hour Nickelodeon sports documentary released in 2015 titled "Little Ballers" shares the journey of Anthony and his New York City-based New Heights AAU basketball team. Anthony’s mother, Crystal McCrary, created the film to inspire youth – not just on the court but in life in general.
“I was just a mom following the boys around taking photographs and I realized they all come from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, but yet on the court and off the court they are brothers,” McCrary told entertainment news reporter Alexis Joy in early 2015 shortly before the program premiered on television.