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2) The way back
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A former high school basketball phenom, struggling with alcoholism, is offered a coaching job at his alma mater. As the team starts to win, he may have a reason to confront his old demons. But will it be enough to set him on the road to redemption?
4) Rebound
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Hothead college basketball coach Roy McCormick shows more interest in endorsement deals than in winning games. After an on-court meltdown, the hot-tempered college hoops coach is expelled from the league. In order to return, Coach Roy needs to prove he can win games without losing his cool, and his last chance is to take on a losing junior high school team of wise-cracking misfits. As Roy struggles to turn his lovable losers into champions, he discovers...
Description
When Brian, a hopelessly uncoordinated young fan, magically switches talents with his basketball hero, NBA superstar Kevin Durant, he becomes the star of his high school team, while Kevin suddenly can't make a shot to save his life. But with the playoffs approaching, Brian learns that being a true winner involves working hard at your own game, and he tries to make things right in time to prevent a catastrophic end to his hero's season.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Inspired by true events, witness the extraordinary journey of Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton, who made history as the first Black player to sign an NBA contract. At a time when segregation divided sports, New York Knicks coach Joe Lapchick and team executive Ned Irish see the future of basketball in Sweetwater's dazzling and unorthodox displays of entertaining athleticism. Together, they challenge convention and break through barriers that would change...
7) Grown ups
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Five friends and former teammates reunite on the Fourth of July weekend to honor the passing of their former high school basketball coach.
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
Basketball champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live-action event from director Malcolm D. Lee. This transformational journey is a manic mash-up of two worlds that reveals just how far some parents will go to connect with their kids. When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny,...
10) Semi-Pro
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It's 1976 and the only thing sexier than Jackie Moon is his incredible career. The owner, head coach and star player of the Flint Tropics--not to mention the smooth vocals behind the hit single "Love Me Sexy"--is at the top of his game. But when it appears the Tropics might not survive an NBA merger, Jackie vows to turn up the heat and lead his team to glory in the most hysterical comedy ever to put the funk back in the dunk!
11) The Mighty Macs
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In the early '70s, Cathy Rush became the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college. Though her team had no gym or uniforms, and the school was in danger of being sold, Coach Rush steered her girls to their first national championship.
12) Where hope grows
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Former pro baseball player Calvin Campbell's faith in God is restored when he meets Produce, an inspirational man with Down syndrome. As their friendship develops, Calvin is reminded that hope grows in the most unlikely places.
"Touching."--Los Angeles Times
"...'Where Hope Grows' embraces the idea that God works in mysterious ways."--Variety
"Writer-director Chris Dowling handles (the) worrisome premise with a more even hand than this genre's...
13) Believe in me
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
14) Coach Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The story of a high school basketball coach who receives both criticism and praise after benching his entire team due to poor grades.
16) Space jam
Pub. Date
1997, 1996.
Description
Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes have been kidnaped by aliens, and Bugs challenges the aliens to a game of basketball to settle things--with the help of Michael Jordan.
17) Air
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...
19) Uncle Drew
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When a young man spends his life savings to enter a team into the Rucker Classic street ball tournament, he calls upon an elderly player and his former teammates for help.
20) Glory Road
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Based on the story of Don Haskins, basketball coach of tiny Texas Western College, which in 1966 upset the University of Kentucky to win the NCAA national championship by starting the best players, the first all-African American lineup