It´s unusual to watch a 7-foot man post up a 5-foot woman on the basketball court, but when Kat Jayme asked her childhood hero for a game of one-on-one, he put on his game face. Despite his visitor coming to Gans, Oklahoma, from another country, Bryant `Big Country` Reeves would not be allowing her any gimme layups. Jayme is a Canadian filmmaker, and her documentary `Finding Big Country` is the story of a woman who, at age 7 in 1995, loved basketball so much that she had already decided she would try to become the first female NBA player. And her city was getting its own NBA expansion team, the Vancouver Grizzlies, that year. The team´s first draft pick: Reeves, a 7-foot, 275-pound...
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