title: I Hate Christian Laettner
text: # I Hate Christian Laettner
  
  I Hate Christian Laettner is a 2015 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary directed by Rory Karpf.
  
  ## Summary
  
  It examines the love/hate relationship towards Duke University basketball player Christian Laettner, and explores five factors which the film-makers believe explain the widespread and persistent hatred: privilege, race, bullying, greatness, and physical appearance. It is narrated by Rob Lowe.
  
  ## Reception
  
  The A.V. Club called it a "too cute approach to one of college basketball's greatest villains" while Variety praised it as "an amusing, affectionate and quite informative look at the hostility directed at the Duke basketball star of the early 1990s."
  
  