New York’s Coney Island is famous for Nathan’s Hot Dogs and Stephon Marbury, a kid from the housing projects who went on to have a turbulent career in the NBA, before ultimate redemption and fame from millions of basketball-crazy fans in China.

Now Marbury is headed to movie stardom with A Kid from Coney Island, an intimate documentary about the rise and fall of a legendary pro basketball player who, as a child, dreamed of fame and fortune in the NBA, before a career rebirth in China while playing for the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons and the Beijing Ducks.

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