#143: Mike Nicoll – Director, The Spoils

Mike Nicoll is a former hooper turned award-winning filmmaker focused heavily on basketball’s business side in his documentaries.

The Spoils penetrates a shadowy financial system: America’s youth basketball industrial complex. With unprecedented access to the money game that dominates the sport, the film unravels the raw capitalism of the American basketball machine.

Mike Nicoll has directed 3 feature films, best known for writing & directing “At All Costs” – a feature documentary acquired by Netflix in 2017.

Chapters:
(01:20) The Spoils
(07:20) Shocking revelations
(10:10) How the AAU system works
(13:05) Why travel basketball exists
(20:20) Reimagining the system
(26:55) Business of basketball
(35:20) Next films