Canadian NBA star Steve Nash behind new CBC basketball drama

LOS ANGELES – Retired NBA all-star Steve Nash and Insight Productions are teaming up on a new drama series for CBC that will be set in the world of youth basketball.With a working title of Hardwood, the series will follow a flashy, big-city entrepreneur who opens an elite youth basketball academy in a sleepy farming town outside of Toronto. Skander Halim (Pretty Persuasion, 18 To Life) created the series and is writing the pilot. Nash (pictured), through his company Meathawk Productions, has been named as an executive producers on the series.“I see our young basketball stars having to navigate a very...