Daryl Morey’s Broadway musical dreams are finally coming to life. However, that means every popular NBA veteran is to be envisioned as Lilliputians. That is exactly what Morey has done, and leading the squad for his Broadway musical is none other than Michael Jordan. Recently, Morey talked about the thought process behind his project.

The 51-year-old said that a theatre that he was working with approached him with the idea of doing a musical. Morey’s response was, “Yeah, sure, I have an outline of something that might be fun. Then we very smartly threw out my outline.” From there, started the journey of 6-inch-tall Jordan, and his fellow NBA legends.

The Small Ball is conceptualized around the fictional Lilliput Island out of “Gulliver’s Travels.” Morey is executively producing the show, while Mickle Mahler has written the book and the lyrics of the musical. The 51-year-old considers himself to be a nerd and claims to know “any sort of musical theater trivia.” Although he thinks that he embarrasses himself with confessions of such knowledge, he is too invested to back out from it.

The Story of Small Ball

The curious play starts in the world of little basketball enthusiasts. These people, named after Bird, Magic, and Pippen then look for someone who can take them to the real basketball world. They lure a certain Michael Jordan to their island in an attempt to join an international basketball league. The one big problem with their plan is that it is not the actual MJ, but just someone who happens to have the same name.

Colby Lewis, the guy who plays Jordan in the musical said, “It’s a fantastical comedy about grief, about what’s possible, and I think how the things we love like basketball affect how we process life. It’s unique in the way it brings a lot of seemingly unrelated elements together. If I had a theme for it, figuring it out is what most of us are doing.”

The acts in the play are also designed after the usual basketball shenanigans, from the press conferences to the hilarious banter.

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