Netflix‘s basketball comedy series Running Point is back for a second season. The third episode of the new installment, released on April 23, carries an end card that reads “In Loving Memory of #6 Niko Mijailovic.”
It is a tribute to a Los Angeles boy who died a year ago in a tragic accident as he was being picked up from school. He was 15 at the time, finishing eighth grade at the elite private Campbell Hall and a star varsity volleyball player for the school wearing a #6 jersey.
During Mijailovic’s memorial service, it was mentioned that the last thing the family watched together was Season 1 of Running Point.
Friends of Mijailovic’s family are connected to the show, which is how the Running Point producers heard the story and were touched by it, I hear. With the blessing of the boy’s family, the series
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