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Netflix Releases Season 2 of 'Starting 5' With Unfiltered Access to NBA Stars

The premiere supplies firsthand footage that reframes a landmark NBA season through the players’ own voices.

Overview

  • The eight-episode season, now streaming, follows Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Tyrese Haliburton, Kevin Durant, James Harden and Jaylen Brown through 2024–25.
  • Gilgeous-Alexander’s MVP campaign and Oklahoma City’s record-setting 68–14 run are chronicled with behind-the-scenes moments from the title push.
  • Haliburton’s midseason crisis and his Finals Game 7 Achilles tear are shown with mic’d audio and emotional locker-room scenes.
  • Durant and Harden revisit the 2012 Oklahoma City trade in candid conversations that convey lingering frustration over how it unfolded.
  • Personal vignettes include Gilgeous-Alexander’s mentorship bond with Chris Paul, his motivation against the Clippers after the 2019 trade, and his Christmas Day reaction to learning he would be the NBA 2K26 cover athlete.