Apple has ordered the basketball drama, Swagger, executive produced by Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television to series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Bythewood, Durant and Grazer will executive produce alongside Imagine’s Francie Calfo and Rich Kleiman for Thirty Five Ventures and CBS TV Studios.
Durant was a top player in the league, which is a magnet for high-level basketball players, as well as college and pro scouts and top brand sponsors, in his high school days in the nation’s capital.
Swagger, which will be directed by Reggie Rock Bythewood (Shots Fired) and see him act as showrunner, will follow players, families and coaches in the Amateur Athletic Union basketball league in Washington, D.C. who have to balance their dreams and ambition, as well as the potential for corruption and opportunism.