Airdate: Gaze: The First Family of Australian Basketball

Sports documentary Gaze: The First Family of Australian Basketball will screen on Nine this Thursday.

This is the story of how Lindsay and Andrew Gaze became two of the nation’s most beloved, respected, and decorated sports heroes.

Featuring the Honourable John Howard AC, Eddie McGuire, Brian Goorjian, Lanard Copeland, Warrick Giddey, Stephen Quartermain and more, the film highlights the gigantic mark the Gaze’s have left on the sporting landscape.

Lindsay Gaze is one of the greatest head coaches in Australian basketball history. He coached the Tigers to the NBL championship in 1993 and 1997, while he was crowned the NBL’s Coach of the Year in 1989, 1997 and 1999. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and the annual winner of the NBL’s Coach of the Year award receives the Lindsay Gaze Trophy.

Andrew Gaze is a five-time Olympian, representing the Australian Boomers in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. He is a seven-time NBL MVP, 11-time NBL All-Star, two-time NBL champion, 15-time All-NBL First-Team Member, 14-time NBL scoring champion and 1999 NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs. He is now a regular on the NBL’s broadcast team, becoming one of the most loved and adored figures in Australian sport. The annual winner of the NBL MVP award wins the Andrew Gaze Trophy.

8:30pm Thursday in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, and 10pm in Sydney and Brisbane on Nine.