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TV film about a player with a lucky pair of shoes, directed by Gregory Hines. [13] Like Mike: 2002 Comedy Magical shoes turn a 14-year-old (Lil' Bow Wow) into a basketball sensation. [12] A Season on the Brink: 2002 Drama TV film based on the book, documenting 1985–86 season of Bob Knight and Indiana University. [1] Double Teamed: 2002 ...
On occasion, sports books have been used as source material for film adaptations. Popular sports in the United States such as baseball and American football have been adapted to film. Books about sports such as boxing, bullfighting, cockfighting, football, hockey, hunting have also been adapted.
Hustle is a 2022 American sports comedy-drama film [2] directed by Jeremiah Zagar, written by Taylor Materne and Will Fetters, and co-produced by and starring Adam Sandler as a down-on-his-luck National Basketball Association (NBA) scout who discovers a raw but talented basketball player in Spain (Juancho Hernangómez) and tries to prepare him for the NBA draft.
Thunderstruck is a 2012 American sports comedy film directed by John Whitesell and starring professional NBA player Kevin Durant and Taylor Gray as well as Brandon T. Jackson, Doc Shaw and Jim Belushi. The plot follows a boy who magically gets Durant's basketball skills and the duo must figure out how to return them. It was released on August ...
Aside from Utah Jazz player Hernangómez, the film is stuffed with other real current and former NBA players, including Anthony Edwards, Boban Marjanovic, Kenny Smith and Julius "Dr. J" Erving.
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Cornbread, Earl and Me is a 1975 American coming-of-age drama film that stars Tierre Turner, Laurence Fishburne (in his film debut), and NBA player Jamaal Wilkes. It was directed and co-produced by Joseph Manduke. [3] The film is loosely based on the 1966 Ronald Fair novel Hog Butcher. [4] [5] [6]