Best Basketball Movie?

[Supergirl]

Inspired by the thread about the best baseball movies...

[Dr. Gonzo]

Like Mike

[JamStone]

Juwanna Mann

/thread

[Bob Lanier]

White Men Can't Jump.

[Muser]

Not seen many, out of the few I have seen i'd put semi-pro.

[Sense]

I can't think of any decent movie....


Love and Basketball?

seriously that's the best I can think of
.....

WAIT..


SPACEJAM! duh

[balli]

Hoop Dreams, Hoosiers, He Got Game, Blue Chips. That's it that's the list.

[Phillip]

Finding Forrester is not really a basketball movie, but a very good movie.

I loved Space Jam.

I actually liked Love and Basketball too.

[rjv]

hoosiers though i would have to say hoop dreams is better although it is a documentary.

[benefactor]

No Jesus Shuttlesworth? :)

I remember sneaking into White Men Can't Jump when I was a kid. It's still funny as hell today.

You forgot Glory Road...definitely a quality basketball flick.

[Culburn369]

Here's a good one: "That Championship Season"...the original, not the remake (though I wouldn't kick that out of bed). It's taken from the stage, and this motion picture did not fare well at the box office, but, it works really well on the "small screen." Robert Mitchum plays the coach, with Bruce Dern, Paul Sorvino, Martin Sheen and Stacey Keach playing the starting four for the one time Pennsylvania State Boy's Basketball Champions. The missing member is the center, who has forsaken Coach because of what he demanded he do during the game to ensure victory (elbow & hook the opposing black center). There is no basketaball action during this movie. At the end Mitchum puts on the 33 rpm record of the moments after the last timeout when they are trailing by one. Each actor is shows in turn as the record plays out as the championship is attained. They then gather for a group photo around the championship trophy with the cue to smile the word: "cunninglingus" (a reference to a joke in the movie)...then the the frame tracks ever so slowly over the trophy and a dramatic orchestral score is played over the trophy and then the credits.

It's quite a treat.

[Leetonidas]

Coach Carter is a great movie, but as far as purely basketball without all the drama and shit, I'd have to go with White Men Can't Jump.

[mardigan]

Above The Rim

[slick'81]

for me always hoosiers and love and basketball ..hoop dreams was pretty good,white man cant jump is the shit,glory road,the basketball diaries and michael Jordan to the max

what about the air up there lmao

http://www.impawards.com/1994/posters/air_up_there.jpg

[phyzik]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1033/534762773_62108153d4_o.jpg

[urunobili]

http://blogs.trb.com/community/news/davie/forum/coach%20carter.jpg

[lil_penny]

Love and basketball and he got game are my favorites... would high school musical count as one also??

[Bartleby]

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii297/babbalanja/fish_saved.jpg

[ManuTP9]

http://i30.tinypic.com/2ufpoqa.jpg

White Men Cant Jumpe

[Udokafan05]

Celtic Pride, Louis Scott is the coolest character in a basketball movie.

[da_suns_fan]

White Man Cant jump is my fav but I HAD to vote for "Eddie" just because it was so bad.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

I voted for Spacejam only cause base-ketball wasn't on there.

[Obstructed_View]

Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault

[jazzypimp]

celtic pride, dayman wayans as a jazzman?? love it.. plus if I rememnber the movie correctly, the jazz win the championship too !!!

[sonic21]

http://www.poster.net/like-mike/like-mike-like-mike-video-release-9913391.jpg

[BlackSwordsMan]

Sports Illustrated 2005 San Antonio Spurs championship

[ffadicted]

How the fawk is Glory Road not in here

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Semi-Pro and Juwanna Mann.

[21_Blessings]

White Men Can't Jump. Easily.

[dickface]

http://cityflight.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/black_magic_cover_.jpg

[BlackBellamy]

"Who's the man now, dogg?" :lol

[Rapin' Kobe]

All yalls taste in movies are horrendous
I was wronged and now I must avenge this
I'll bury these other movies in the dirk
Best of all time is Kobe Doin' Work

http://weeklydrop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kobe-doin-work-a-spike-lee-joint.jpg

[DPG21920]

WMCJ, Rebound & Blue Chip fo sho.

[TheManFromAcme]

I was a kid in '79 (5-6) but does anyone ever remember the movie
"The Fish that Saved Pittsburg" with Julius "Dr. J" Erving?

My pops has it in VHS and saw it a couple of months ago. Pretty cool dunk scenes of the Dr. himself.

[lil_penny]

Teen Wolf was the best basketball movie ever... hands down.

Classic... gotta love the surfing on the van

[Sherlock Holmes]

http://www.poster.net/like-mike/like-mike-like-mike-video-release-9913391.jpg

What a mother fucking insult to David Robinson. They show every NBA player that was featured in the movie on the poster except David Robinson. FUCKING A.

Also Space Jam is by the far the most entertaining and best basketball movie, all the other ones are just bullshit.

[bdictjames]

Glory Road or Coach Carter

Space Jam was nice when I was 5.

[Supergirl]

man, He Got Game was a big omission on my part. How did I forget that one???

[Cry Havoc]

White Men Can't Jump, if not for the ridiculous part at the end where his g/f goes off and starts answering Jeopardy with prescience, would have to be one of the greatest sports movies of all time, maybe top 3. It's such a fantastic story about life and the flaws that make people do what they do. When Woody fails to dunk after winning it all and loses his money, it's among the top moments in (sports) movie history.

Fantastic film. With some of the best action of any b-ball movie.

[Darrin]

http://blogs.trb.com/community/news/davie/forum/coach%20carter.jpg

[Lars]

Blue Chips was probably my favorite.

[Darrin]

Coach Ken Carter: When we step on the floor every second that clock is ticking, we are pedal to the metal, we run the ball, we pressure the ball, and most importantly we control the tempo of the game, we make them play Richmond Oiler ball.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Sir I just wanna say thank you . . . You saved my life.
- Timo Cruz

[Otaku]

White men can't jump and Rebound, the legend of the goat are the best bball movies I've seen, by far.

[Obstructed_View]

How the fawk is Glory Road not in here

Because it's a Disneyized PC story that's not even remotely accurate? Wasn't this what everyone said about Rudy?

I always thought WMCJ was an ironic title since it had little Wesley Snipes throwing it down on an 8 foot rim.

[Findog]

Amazing Grace and Chuck should at least be an option.

[scottspurs]

Hoosiers is one of my 5 favorite movies ever. Not just basketball movie. Hoosiers is great, but where is Pistol Pete and the 6th Man. Hoops Dreams is great, but that is a Documentary not a Movie. Braveheart is the greatest movie ever by the way.

[Culburn369]

White Men Can't Jump, if not for the ridiculous part at the end where his g/f goes off and starts answering Jeopardy with prescience, would have to be one of the greatest sports movies of all time, maybe top 3. It's such a fantastic story about life and the flaws that make people do what they do.

Cry, outstanding citations.

Makes me feel good to read it multiple times.

[Bob Lanier]

Cry, outstanding citations.

Makes me feel good to read it multiple times.
What the fuck, are you Chinese?

[Supergirl]

Hoosiers is one of my 5 favorite movies ever. Not just basketball movie. Hoosiers is great, but where is Pistol Pete and the 6th Man. Hoops Dreams is great, but that is a Documentary not a Movie. Braveheart is the greatest movie ever by the way.

Since when are documentaries not a kind of movie?

I know everyone says how great Hoosiers was, but I was underwhelmed by it. It was pretty good, but didn't really live up to the hype.

[Culburn369]

Hoosiers is one of my 5 favorite movies ever. Not just basketball movie. Hoosiers is great, but where is Pistol Pete and the 6th Man. Hoops Dreams is great, but that is a Documentary not a Movie. Braveheart is the greatest movie ever by the way.

Fine citation for "The Pistol", is that what yer referring to, Scott?

I got to call a smidge of ass on Braveheart and I'll tell you why, Scott: It sticks in my craw when the Gibson character won't fight when the English Lord takes that newlywed's wife on her wedding night to his own bed, but, wants everyone to follow him to war after his wife's throat is cut. Then when the newlywed comes face to face with the guy who took his wife that night Gibson tells him to hurry with his vengeance. It ain't right.

[montgod]

Dang... for some reason I didn't see White Men Can't Jump and voted for Love and Basketball instead.

My top three would be WMCJ, L&B, and Hoosiers.

[Culburn369]

What the fuck, are you Chinese?

Only when I jackoff and squint tightly at the moment of truth.

[montgod]

Blue Chips was probably my favorite.

I was very dissapointed in BC. I thought it would have been better... just my opinion though.

[DPG21920]

Because it's a Disneyized PC story that's not even remotely accurate? Wasn't this what everyone said about Rudy?

I always thought WMCJ was an ironic title since it had little Wesley Snipes throwing it down on an 8 foot rim.

:lmao

[carrao45]

White men can't jump was good, with that Puerto Rican chick

[Spursfan092120]

I picked Hoosiers..classic...but, this movie should have gotten a mention...

http://www.impawards.com/1985/posters/teen_wolf.jpg

[DPG21920]

White men can't jump was good, with that Puerto Rican chick

"I'll take foods that start with the letter Q Alex" :lol I still say that all the time when I get drunk...

[Spursfan092120]

White men can't jump was good, with that Puerto Rican chick
Rosie Perez...yeah..back when she was hot...and for like 2 seconds it showed her nipples...damn...she was hot..lol..

[Spursfan092120]

"I'll take foods that start with the letter Q Alex" :lol I still say that all the time when I get drunk...
What is a Quince? lol...

[sendman]

If you like nice old fashion movies, then I highly recommend "One on one"1979.

[Culburn369]

Yes, sendman! The coach played by G.D. Spradlin is excellent there.

And I think Seals & Croft did some of the music.

[MI21]

Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault

This is the correct answer :tu

[Morgo]

Heaven is a Playground

[dickface]

Only when I jackoff and squint tightly at the moment of truth.

post of the year

[spursfan1000]

When i Was little I liked Like Mike 1 and 2 but I wasnt inspired i just liked the movie

[timtonymanu]

I really havent seen enough basketball movies. I still need to watch He Got Game and White Men Can't Jump.

I really liked Coach Carter. I took alot of quotes from that movie. Space Jam was great. I watch it from time to time. Like Mike is ok. I just watch it mostly for the cameos. Glory Road has an amazing story.

[samikeyp]

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii297/babbalanja/fish_saved.jpg

:tu :tu :tu :tu

[mathbzh]

"Any Given Sunday" except I still don't understand why these guys play with helmets.

Seriously, basketball movies are terrible.

[Spursfan092120]

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/DMS/841213.jpg http://static.omdb.si/posters/active/5302.jpg http://i.b5z.net/i/u/1277240/i/Blue_Chips_poster.jpg
All REALLY good movies, IMO