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We rank 'em. You react. That's how the Daily List rolls.2/29/2008 09:13:00 AM Top Five Basketball Movies
By Lang Whitaker, SI.com
When talking basketball movies, the conversation always starts with "Hoosiers."Courtesy MGM
This weekend, Will Ferrell continues rounding out his sports film oeuvre with the release of Semi-Pro, joining films Ferrell has made about car racing, soccer and ice skating. This time, though, Ferrell's film competes against a pantheon of great movies in the basketball genre. I haven't seen Semi-Pro, but here are my top five basketball movies.
1. Hoosiers: If you think otherwise, you don't like basketball.
2. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: An incredible movie that has to be seen to be believed. Basically, Dr. J stars as the star of a terrible pro basketball team that changes its mascot from a Python to a Pieces and starts basing all their personnel decisions on an astrological chart. Afros, short shorts, crazy players -- hey, sounds like Semi-Pro.
3. White Men Can't Jump: A few years ago, a friend of mine called me from the hospital, where he was rushed after tearing his achilles tendon in a 3-on-3 tournament. He was understandably down about the injury, but he was even more upset because he'd rented White Men Can't Jump the night before to study all the amazing put-downs and trash talk and never got to use them.
4. Hoop Dreams: I wasn't sure if this even belonged, since it's a documentary, but I saw it in a theater and it's one of the best movies about basketball that I've ever seen.
5. The Air Up There: Kevin Bacon cuts footloose and goes to Africa to find a towering tribesman to help save his job as an assistant coach at tiny St. Joseph's. The movie is vibrant, funny and completely unbelievable...which is what makes it fun to watch.
What's your favorite basketball movie of all-time? Let us know below...
Lang Whitaker is the executive editor of SLAM magazine and writes daily at SLAMonline.composted by SI.com | View comments |
Comments:
ReboundWhat Blue Chips? Nick Nolte playing a Bobby Knight type who can't stand the system and gets caught trying to play it... Plus Shaq and Penny...What? How can you have "The Air Up There" ahead of "One on One" with basket phenom Henry Steele (Robbie Benson). The scene where Henry is practicing while high after his teammate gave him some pills is pure movie magic. How could you overlook this classic?Don't forget "Inside Moves" with John Savage. And, of course, "Space Jam" with Bugs and michael Jordan.How about "Amazing Grace and Chuck"?Glory Road???he got game?The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh? Really? Why not "Teen Wolf" while you're at it? With movies out there like "Glory Road" and "Coach Carter" you pick a movie that was bad even for the 70's? Bad acting, bad characters and bad basketball choreography. A complete and total clunker. Even if you feel drawn to pick something from that era there are other choices that immediately come to mind - One on One (drippy Robbie Benson movie but good basketball theme) and Fast Break (semi-funny Gabe Kaplan movie). Others like "Pistol: Birth of a Legend" deserve a mention as well. Here is a proposed list:
1. Hoosiers
2. Glory Road
3. Coach Carter
4. Hoop Dreams
5. Pistol: Birth of a LegendTechnically not a movie, but my three year old likes Scooby Doo meets the Harlem Globetrotters from the 70s versions of Scooby Doo.Ahhh, how about FAST BREAK, starring Gabe Kaplan (aka Mr. Carter)
That movie is in the top 5!change the list to best five sports movies (Rudy, Raging bull, rocky, bull durham, candy shack, brian's song,Blue Chips is a great b-ball movie. Plus the plot revolving around recruiting violations and paying players has become even more relevant today than it was when it came out in '94. Consolation prize to Space Jam b/c it has the best basketball player and some of the best cartoon characters of all time.space jamYou must have forgotten about "Fast Break" with Gabriel Kaplan. Excellent funny movie about a pieced together college team of hustlers, a female player dressed out as a male named Swish, and a young Bernard King as the pool shark star. He was also in his prime.Love and Basketball.Set partially around basketball, Finding Forrester was a fantastic movie - and I finally found a way to remember the difference between "farther" and "further".1. Hoosers
2. Teen Wolf
3. Blue Chips
4. Hoop Dreams
5. PistolHow can you possibly not include "Coach Carter"?One on One, with Robbie Benson as the lead, was decades ahead of its time, and deserves consideration on all-time great Sports Movies, certainly the number two all-time basketball movie.FAST BREAK should be #1!Sunset ParkHe Got Game. Really an amazing movie that is so much better than The Air Up There it is silly.
How about Fast Break? Gabe Kaplan, baby.umm... wheres Above the Rim?How about the worst basketball movie ever...
That would be a piece of crap called "Scoring" which came out in 1979. Pete Maravich was in it (he is listed as Peter Maravich).
Here's the link for info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314625/
Absolutely horrible.I'm sorry, bad list. On top of a few already mentioned, you missed Above The Rim, Basketball Diaries, and the story of Earl "The Goat" Manigault, which I can't remember the title of but was awesome.Ummm, hello people? ABOVE THE RIM?The most relevant movie today has to be 'Eddie' where Whoopie Goldberg takes over the struggling Knicks. The movie includes a star player who refers to himself in the third person, a wacky owner, and fans who have had enough.Gotta go with " Amazing Grace and Chuck"; Alex English was horrible (acting that is). However, for its' time, a very good movie. I had to go with this because it was totally fictional. Being from El Paso and having an uncle in the movie, I really liked Glory Road, however it was a little too much " Hollywood". There were however a lot of hidden 'quirks' if you will, like when Coach Haskins was calling to tell about Bobby Joe Hill, the gasoline attendent that asked him if he wanted to fill up was the real Coach Haskins.i love coach carterExcept for 'Hoosiers', basketball has come up short. For all sports, there's 'Breaking Away' 'Seabiscuit' Bend it like Beckham' 'Cinderella Man' 'Million Dollar Baby' 'Requiem for a Heavyweight' 'On the Waterfront' 'Knute Rockne, All American' 'The Pride of the Yankees'HE GOT GANE & BLUE CHIPS belong on this list.1) White Men Can't Jump
2) Hoop Dreams
3) Hoosiers
4) He Got Game
5) Love & BasketballSpace Jam. Jordan and Bugs. Need say no more.what about Air Bud.. got to be the best basketball movie out there hands downI'd argue that Pistol, Birth of a Legend should be on there somewhere. It changed my life when I watched it at 12 years old."The Great Santini"1. Hoosiers --- no doubt...
2. Glory Road --- great movie...some nice movies that are definitely better than the air up there
1. coach carter
2. he got game
3. rebound: the legend of earl "the goat" manigault
4. above the rim
5. glory road
and if you want to put in a comedy just to mix it up,
Celtic Pride s way better than air up thereI liked Coach Carter personally.The Air Up There was a terrible terrible movie. It was phonier than a 3 dollar bill. How can Glory Road or Coach Carter not be on the list? Have you even watched The Air Up There? My guess is no, because if you had, you would put it as #1 on the list of the Lousiest Basketball Movies Ever.The Air Up There was a terrible terrible movie. It was phonier than a 2 dollar bill, and no, that doesn't make it funny. Glory Road and Coach Carter were both 1,000 times better. Have you even watched The Air Up There? My guess is no, because if you had, you wouldn't have put it on this list; in fact, you would have put it as #1 on the Top Five Worst Basketball Movies.come on, you left off Airbud1. Hoosiers i can agree with that
2. Blue Chips, shaq and penny
3. Coach Carter something todays city kids can relate too.
4. Okay White man cant jump i agree
5. Space Jam , A movie with the greatest basketball player that ever lived? any question MJHow about:
- Above The Rim with Speedy Williams, Leon, Tupac
- Heaven Is A Playground with HakeemSPACE JAM!!!Good choices. A couple more to think aobut that i didn't see:
Above the rim? Not the best film but entertaining enough when i saw it about ten years ago.
Rebound? Don Cheadle is always good to watch, and like most people i didn't know who Earl 'The Goat' Manigault was until i saw the film.
And how about Basketball Diaries??! Not 100% all about basketball but still! Good film though. Also Love and Basketball - i've not seen it but thought i would put it out there!
- KhalidHe Got Game !
Come on, a great basketball flick AND 2 pornstars in a 3 some ! How can you top that?How can everyone forget He Got Game with Denzel Washington and Ray Allen. The Air Up There? Come on, let's be for real now...How about Sunset Park? Or High School Musical? JK.1. Brokeback Mountain
2. When Harry Met Sally
3. Hunt for Red October
4. Sound of Music
5. Friday Night LightsAbove the Rim? Coach Carter?How the heck has noone mentioned above the rim? Come on nowYou could have left 4 of the 5 off this list and just listed Hoosiers again and again and again -
If you had to have 5 (to make the name valid) then you would have to go with:
1. Hoosiers
2. Porky's Revenge (it counts - it has Angel Beach in the State Championship)
3. Semi Pro (I know it's not out yet - but Will Farrel - good enough for me to make the top 5 all time)
4. Above the Rim
5. Slam Dunk Ernest - since Space Jam is being touted - I figured I would give Jim Varney some loveHave you all forgotten about Above the Rim??? "Are we even now Nutzo?" The best soundtrack of any basketball movie and certainly a top five basketball film!!Need He Got Game on that list it's a classic. Good call on the Air Up There extremely underrated movie. And the Sixth Man was a terribly great basketball movie that should be on the list.ABOVE THE RIM has to be somewhere on the top 5.Sunset Park should be on the list as well as Above the RimAir Bud!Pistol!Air Bud? definitely a classicPistol: Birth of a LegendYou are obviously NOT a basketball fan. Beyond Hoosier's, are you kidding me?
The real top 5:
1. Hoosier's
2. Pistol: The Birth of a Legend
3. Glory Road
4. Coach Carter
5. Love and Basketball
Honorable Mention
White Men Can't Jump
Blue ChipsAlright, so it's only a TV show, but "The White Shadow" really needs mention here.1. HOOSIERS
2. THE FISH THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH
3. COACH CARTER
4. LOVE AND BASKETBALL
5. SPACE JAMWait till you see "Quantum Hoops", a documentary about the Caltech men's basketball team. It belongs on your top five list. It has been called " heartwarming and heartbreaking".
It will be on DVD later this spring.What about "The Fish that saved Pittsburgh"?
That's old school!juwanna manI would have to say:
1. Hoosiers (no brainer)
2. Pistol
3. White Men Can't Jump
4. Rebound (not the Martin one)
5. Go Man Go (Harlem Globetrotters)has to be He Got Game for me! Ray Allen plays his part really well!Am I the only person to have seen Heaven is a Playground? If you haven't seen it, rent it tonight. Awesome basketball film. I tried taping money to a backboard immediately after watching the film, but wasn't delusional enough to try the trick with the quarters.Being a writer, you should know how to spell "Pisces".space jam number one best movie of all time and owns any other basketball movieCornbread, Earl, and Me with Jamal Wilkes is a basketball movie, though it's about more than just basketball.JAMAL WALLACEBoys and girls, the best basketballmovie ever made for sure is second place basketball diaries and for first Above the Rim.Hoop DreamsHe Got Game should be on this list. Although a very underrated movie, it features a great Denzel Washington performance and also shows the excellent basketball skills of a young Ray Allen. The movie, while far fetched, certainly portrays the high pressure that many young high school basketball recruits face.Coach Carter, definitely. Excellent true story with superb acting."Inside Moves" absolutely has to be considered. Especially against the likes of "Blue Chips" and other absolutely horrid basketball films!1. Dunkin Donato (Benjie Paras)The PistolJuwanna Mann?
I keed, I keed.Does BASEketball qualify for this list?what about glory roadDUDE "HE GOT GAME" HOW CAN U FORGET THAT! I MEAN ITS A SPIKE LEE JOINTPistol: Birth of a Legend from 1991. Absolutely fantastic for those who want to get a sense of who Pete Maravich was, his childhood, etc. The kid who plays Pete is unbelievable. Next to the Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich (4/1/01) - Emmy Award winning CBS documentary, there is perhaps no better.Pistol: Birth of a Legend (1991) is perhaps the best definitive movie of the early days of Pete Maravich's childhood. The kid who plays Pete is unbelievable. Next to Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich (4/1/01) - Emmy Award winning CBS documentary, there is perhaps no better movie to give one the sense of who Pete Maravich was and what a superstar he really was. While there is some stuff that can be found on the web, these two are my tops.Love and Basketball
Blue Chips
Hoosiers
Air up there
he got Game"Above the Rim" with Tupac and Marlon Wayans should be second on the list.1. Above the Rim
2. Hoop Dreams
3. Space Jam
4. White Men Can't Jump
5. Hoosiers"How can you leave out Coach Carter?"
It is really easy to leave out, actually. Every shot made in that movie is a 3 or a dunk. DumbThe Sixth Man has to be one of the best sports movies all time, despite Marlon Wayans. Well, maybe not, but it's one of my personal favorites.1. Hoosiers
2. Hoop Dreams
3. He Got Game
4. Hoosiers (a second time)
5. A videotape of the 1979 NCAA Finals with Bird and MagicWhat about Space Jam.. You really didn't think this one out..1) He Got Game
2) Love and Basketball
3) Above the Rim
4) White Men Can't Jump
5) Heaven is a PlaygroundI must say, all the blogs on the subject are excellent, entertaining and enlightening. If you dig b-ball; you dig all of the movies about it.
Though not a basketball movie, the constant dribbling of young Keith (Jamal) Wilkes in "Cornbread, Earl, and me," is classic.I know this will cause some groans - but what about Space Jam?
Jordan and the Looney Toons crew - its not good basketball - but at the time - it was definately a great entertainment flick.
Again - not even a good movie, really, but worth mentioning in the discussion."The Goat"
"The 6th Man"
"Sunset Park"
"Above the Rim"
"Cornbread and Earl"I've always wanted to see Hoosiers, but so far, the best Ive seen:
Heaven is a playground
Blue Chips
He got Game
The Worst:
Above the rimmy top 5
1/2 (tie) white men can't jump & hoosiers
3) he got game
4) hoop dreams
5) above the rim
hard to argue with thatabove the rim,
white men can't jump,
he got game,
hoosiers,
the fish that saved pittsburgh
in no particular order1. Hoosiers
2. White Men Can't Jump
3. Above the Rim
4. Heaven is a Playground
5. EddieI love it that, about 20 years later, 75% of the lists people have posted have Hoosiers as #1, with no question about it. What a great, great movie. It's also the only movie to be basically about basketball, not about the corrupt college system, a crazy sensationalized story about great players in the ghetto, a race story, etc. Sometimes the simple formulas work best. Gene Hackman, when acting in the movie, actually eliminated a lot of his dialogue and tried to show emotions with acting. That's a great performance.AT least an honorable mention should go to a TV movie called Passing Glory with Andre Braugher.How about "Fast Break?" Good old Mr. Kotter - maybe they should have had Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington in that one too.
Glory Road should be in there too.
I loved the Fish That Saved Pittsburgh as a kid. I'm sure it would feel rather cheesy now. Doesn't every team need an astrologer?
By the way, did anybody proof-read this? You've got "Pieces" where you should have "Pisces."Pistol and Glory road are both great inspirational basketball movies!How about the best basketball scenes from non-basketball movies? My top 5:
1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (just amazing, so inspirational seeing the real Chief - sorry Mr. Parish dominate the guards)
2. Coming to America ("in the FACE")
3. The Cable Guy (hilarious scene, best dunk ever)
4. Pleasantville (every shot goes in = classic)
5. Big Momma's House (Big Momma schools some little punks, silly but fun to watch a fat black lady flying like Dwight Howard)STRANGE BREW. HOSER
IN CANANDA DRINKING RIGHT NOW1. NBA Superstars - the first one, probably the most watched VHS tape I ever owned
2. Hoops Dreams - argubably among the 10 best movies ever, closest thing to the great american novel on film
3. Hoosiers
4. Airplane solely for the Kareem cameo
5. Blue Chips - because at least it had decent basketball scenesRay Allen He got GameWhat about Cornbread, Earl, and Me?JUWANNA MANNJUWANNA MANNAir BudSPACEJAM!!!! IT SHOULD BE #1...HOOSIERS???? YEAH RIGHT!!!!Fastbreak, a 1970s movie staring Gabe Caplin as an inner city down on his luck basketball coach who agrees to take the head job for a fictional small western college, Katawalader college, and proceeds to recruit every talented could have been ghetto reject imaginable and builds a team that then beats the number 1 team in the country is a great movie. Should have been on the list.#1- Love & Basketball
#2- Sun Set Park
#3- Fast Break
#4- Hoosiers
$5- He Got GameEDDIE!!!!!!!! My Knicks at least made the playoffs in the movies!"One on One" with Robbie Benson. Better than "The Air Up There."1. He Got Game
2. Love and Basketball
3. Coach Carter
4. What Men Can't Jump
5. Above the RimSome worthy to be mentioned,
He Got Game
Coach Carter
Above The Rim
Glory RoadJesus Shuttlesworth would be super pissed, but then again he wasn't in Hoosiers, so F him.From a self described hoop junkie
1-He Got Game
2-Hosiers
3-Blue Chips
4-Fast Break
5-One on One
Classic linr from Penny Hardaway in Blue Chips to Nick Nolte Coach,if I transfer,does my mon lose her house and job?1-Ray Allen was a star in He Got Game
2-Blue Chips
3-White Men Can't Jump,although Rosie Perez and her Jeopardy obsession stole the show
4-Hoosiers
5-One on OneFAST BREAK!
Gabe Kaplan, Bernard King, Michael Warren, Al Bundy's Shoe Selling Co-Worker, some chick dressed like a Guy.
How can this have been forgotten?
Also - Air up There is terrible! Even "Be Like Mike" is better.After "Hoosiers," the best basketball fiction piece was the 1998 NPR April Fools Day story about Boston pronouncing "Celtics" with a hard "C" to honor Celtic culture. It totally had be snookered, and at least one professional sports writer confessed that he headed back to the office to write the lede before he was told it was a joke.Why does this list resemble the list made by someone one who had never played ball before?
No Basketball Diaries?
No White Man Can't Jump?
No He Got Game?You couldn't pay me to watch "the air up there" again.No REBOUND (The Story of the GOAT), NO BLUE CHIPS!?!?!?, NO HE GOT GAME!
WHAT A BAD LISTSad commentary on 70s b-ball movies... By far "Coach" outdoes "one on one" or "fish that saved pittsburgh" and particularly "fast break". If you want to watch a movie with absolutely no plot/storyline like these others, "Coach" should rank as #1. You have Cathy Lee Crosby as the title character more than willing to bed down one of her players in a movie that shows plenty of skin but no substance.
Scooby Doo and Harlem Globetrotters is #2!The Basketball Diaries wit Leo DiCapri. His springboard to fame, by the way. and a poignant story line. How many inner city kids of athletic ability have given in to drugs and other temptation?
Surprised nobody mentioned it."The Boys of 2nd Street Park"
true story, check it out.I am no spike lee fan, but you have to include "He got Game" with ray allen and denzel washingtonI read almost all of these comments, and I can't believe no one mention "Cornbread, Earl and Me". Classic!!...with a very young Laurence Fishburne, III giving one of the most powerful perfomance from a child actor.BLUE CHIPS!!Best
1.Space Jam
2.He Got Game
3.Hoop Dreams
Worst
1.Juwanna Man
2.Coach Carter
3.ReboundAn oldie I guess you all have never seen.
'Go Man Go'.
The making of the Harlam Globetrotters. They orginally played an NBA team in Madison Square Gardens and won.
A great movie if you can find it.Blue Chips. Believable story...strong characters(Shaq and Penny were very good)...Nick Nolte gave a fantastic performance. The game scenes were filmed in the high school "gym" of New Castle, Indiana...where Steve Alford played. It seats 10,000 people. You can't leave this movie off of the list.I'd submit as a #5 "Bedazzled", even though there's just a few minutes of basketball in it. How can you not include a flick that has some hoops AND Liz Hurley in leather?BLUE CHIPS"The Pistol" was a great movie...the Pete Maravich story! The kid who played Pete was quite a ball-handler. He obviously did a lot of prep work before the shoot.What about Rebound? You can't leave off "The Goat" for The Air Up There. That movie was horrible.How about "Coach" with Cathy Lee Crosby. I was probably in 9th grade when that came out, no wonder its burned into my brain. Hooking up with an older, smoking hot Crosby....and basketball.Heaven is a Playground and Above the Rim.Easily "One on One" is in the top five. I went out and shot baskets for three hours after seeing that movie, and sank many buzzer beaters for mythical national championships.1. Hoosiers
2. White Men Can't Jump
3. Above the Rim
4. Rebound
5. Blue Chips
6. Love and Basketball
7. He Got Game
8. Basketball Diaries
9. Eddie
10. John Tucker Must Die :)Coach CarterHeart. Of. The. Game.Fast Break is a classic. Coach Carter is a really good movie if you haven't seen it, I recommend that one. And not a movie but a TV show, The White Shadow. Doesn't get better than that.I wrote this blog a couple weeks ago with my list
http://basketball.fanboom.com/college-basketball/my-top-5-bball-movies-of-all-time.htmlHaven't seen a lot what people are submitting but of the ones I have seen:
1. Hoosiers (by far)
2. Glory Road
3. Hoop Dreams
4. Inside Moves
5. White Men Can't Jump1) Hoosiers - Gene Hackman did a great job, but Dennis Hopper put this movie over the top (And fella's, don't get caught watching the paint dry.)
2) Rebound - Don Cheadle playing one of the greatest NY playground legends. Off the chain.
3) One on One. Not real crazy about Robbie Benson, but this was a classic. Especially for it's time.
4)Coach Carter - You just have to love the message of this movie. Has some great young actors in it too. Samuel L speaks for himself.
5)Glory Road. It get's hard here. There are some other very good B-Ball movies, but again, you gotta love the story. That team changed NCAA athletics. FOREVER!
Now, although I cracked up watching it, "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" is maybe, not only the worst basketball movie I've ever seen, it may be the worst movie I've ever seen. Dr J is my boy, but he sure isn't an actor. Besides, that movie set is where Norman Nixon met and ended up marrying my woman (Debbie Allen). That cost me the woman of my dreams and my second favorite basketball player (Kareem being the first). Things just never were the same between Norm and I.1. Hoosiers
2. Teen Wolf
3. White Men Can't Jump
4. Along Came Polly
5. Blue ChipsReboundone on one with robbie benson. i got into basketball because of this movie.Has anybody thought of or said "Juwana Mann"? Pure movie magic, I can't stop watching it...HELP ME!LIKE MIKE !!"He got Game" - Ray allenRebound with Don Cheadle is definitely the best basketball movie.The 6th Man
Above the Rim
The Air Up There
He Got Game
Space JamIt's a blog! Spelling errors give you street cred.
so are they Reese's Pieces? Triforce pieces? Help us out here, man, cause I dunno what a Pieces logo looks like.Where's Eddie on this list?in no particular order, my definitive list.
1) blue chips
2) above the rim
3) hoop dreams
4) above the rim
5) one-on-one
6) hoosiers
7) rebound (earl "the goat" manigault
8) sunset park
9) white men can't jump
10) love an basketballBlue Chips . Penny Hardaway #1To the guy who was whining about "losing" Debbie Allen... didn't she also marry the cop from the Village People? You might still have a chance. And "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" is outstanding. Every team should hire Miss Mona.CELTIC PRIDEThe list needs to include Blue Chips & He Got Game, both movies show the ugly but true side a college basketball and the goliath money making machine it is for universitiesPitcher Ray Sadecki from St. Louis Cardinals to San Francisco Giants for 1b/OF Orlando Cepeda some years ago. I believe there were some non-consequential players involved but Sadeci and Cepeda were the "big names".From the land of terrible made for tv movies...how about Final Shot, the Hank Gathers story...great story, terrible movie...Pitcher Ray Sadecki from St. Louis Cardinals to San Francisco Giants for 1b/OF Orlando Cepeda some years ago. I believe there were other non-consequential players involved but Sadecki and Cepeda were the "big names" involved. Sadecki redefined the word mediocre, at best with SF. Cepeda with StL, well, you can look it up.My Favorite Basketball movie of all time, behind "The Fish..." is "Go Man Go". It is the story of the building and early years of the Harlem Globe Trotters. "One on One" was pretty good as well, but I could never get past Robbie Benson trying to dunk like that was the measure of a great player.BLUE CHIPS... solely on the breakthrough cameo performances of UNLV Coach Jerry Tarkanian as a cuthroat coach who will let his players do anything as long as they win games, and Syracuse Jim Boehiem as a whiny coach with zero personality who does the same thing.
Hey, waitaminute... is the category "Best Hoops Documentary"?what about He got Game with Ray Allen and Denzel Washington?! and Coach Carter should have been on there...Above the Rim??The Gambler. James Caan and Paul Sorvino.The Gambler. James Caan and Paul Sorvino."Air Bud was a better basketball movie than "The Air Up There"
I mean come on!! Kevin Bacon!?! In Africa!?! Playing Basketball!?! Throw in a cartoon cat that can rap and J-Lo as the leading lady, and we have the worst movie ever made.Hello. Is the nobody out there paying attention to the movie "Glory Road"??? This movie is by far the best basketball movie of all time because it is a true story and it changed basketball for ever. I watch the show on ESPN a couple of weeks ago, and not one person ever mentioned it. I think that is really sad seeing the events shown in that movie had such an impact on basketball as a whole.1. He Got Game
2. Space Jam
3. Michael Jordan to the Max
4. Blue Chips
5. Glory RoadI agree with the advocate for "One on One". How about the scene when he (Benson) runs suicides after his "buzz" in practice fiasco!!Michael Jordan's Playground, Above the Rim and Hoosiers.How about Glory Road and Coach Carter.\?ok the top 5 basketball movies in my mind are
the 6th man
coach carter
glory road
space jam
crossover
these arnt in order but crossover and the 6th man were good movies.Best BB movie to see with your honey....
Forget Paris!Where's ONE ON ONE? You can't have a list of top basketball movies without Robby Benson's Warner Bros. basketball classic ONE ON ONE (1977). Benson wrote the screeplay for One on One at age 17, not only to be the first film to expose the issues surrounding the inequities in 'amateur' college athletics, he wrote One on One because HE LOVED TO PLAY THE GAME. Benson's basketball skills at the time were lauded by everyone from John Wooden to Red Auerbach (Robby was offered a spot personally by Auerbach for Celtics rookie camp) to Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Bradley, and scores of other top college and NBA and players and coaches through the years. Cast in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Robby bought out his contract when Warner's gave One on One the green light. As an actor/athlete Robby Benson was the real thing. (Just asked Billy Mills -- the only USA 10000 meter Olympic Gold Medal winner, who chose Robby to portray him in Running Brave). Plus, any guy from 8 to 80 who saw One on One fell in love with Benson's love interest, the gorgeous red-headed tutor played by Annette O'Toole.Where's ONE ON ONE? You can't have a list of top basketball movies without Robby Benson's Warner Bros. basketball classic ONE ON ONE (1977). Benson wrote the screeplay for One on One at age 17, not only to be the first film to expose the issues surrounding the inequities in 'amateur' college athletics, he wrote One on One because HE LOVED TO PLAY THE GAME. Benson's basketball skills at the time were lauded by everyone from John Wooden to Red Auerbach (Robby was offered a spot personally by Auerbach for Celtics rookie camp) to Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Bradley, and scores of other top college and NBA and players and coaches through the years. Cast in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Robby bought out his contract when Warner's gave One on One the green light. As an actor/athlete Robby Benson was the real thing. (Just asked Billy Mills -- the only USA 10000 meter Olympic Gold Medal winner, who chose Robby to portray him in Running Brave). Plus, any guy from 8 to 80 who saw One on One fell in love with Benson's love interest, the gorgeous red-headed tutor played by Annette O'Toole.juwanna mann... not.Recent Posts
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