Basketball Player = Movie
by David A. Arnott on Jul 27, 2010 7:02 AM EDT
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We're entering the slow part of the year for basketball, so today I've got a simple game to play:
BASKETBALL PLAYER = MOVIE
It's simple. Choose a basketball player, assign him a movie that encapsulates who he is, and explain your choice. IMDB links would be helpful, too. I'll start.
There was zero chance that movie would ever win an award, there were no bona fide stars (at the time), but it has a few things going for it. First, there are tattoos everywhere, and it has a definite visual style. Second, though the plot had been seen before (group of misfit kids who get off on pranking The Man and generally getting in trouble band together for a higher, noble, cause), there was an edge to Angelina Jolie's performance that outweighed the contrived aspects of the movie; the edge ultimately didn't make it better than the great movies of its time, but it did make it different from what came before, kind of like how Barnes is the new Raja Bell.
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Sheldon Williams = Love and Basketball
He is a sorry basketball player who’s girl is better and much more pleasing on the eyes than him.
by JDuaneHipps on Jul 27, 2010 7:27 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Ray Allen = He Got Game
Seriously, Ray Allen looks EXACTLY like Jesus Shuttlesworth
There were lots of cameo's
MJ, Chuck, lots of coaches.
Walter McCarty, Travis Best & John Wallace were on his high school team. Talk about a stacked high school team.
No it was really them.
Dean Smith was in the movie. Check imdb.com
Gerald Wallace = Crash
Self explanatory… also, Wallace deserves an Oscar for his hilight reel.
Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.
Greg Oden = Jack
He is a boy trapped in an old mans body as his rare disease causes him to age at a rapid rate.
Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.
by James Dator on Jul 27, 2010 9:33 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
shaq
as john henry irons in STEEL…
oh wait, that’s a TERRIBLE idea for a movie casting
Lebron James = Clueless
He doesn’t know who he is????
by senero on Jul 27, 2010 10:33 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Plus his career is moving backwards
He started as a legendary super star that had already won several championships in the media’s mind (all a foregone conclusion), now he’s a supporting cast to D-Wade and the world outside Miami hates him… What’s next?
Larry Hughes = Plan 9 from Outer Space
Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is,
I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis
- Guru, of Gangstarr
by Ben Swanson on Jul 27, 2010 11:00 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Tip of the hat
Excellent reference.
Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.
by James Dator on Jul 27, 2010 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions
best movie of all time
ed wood was a genious
Dolan and Kahn = Dumb and Dumber
Okay, so they’re not players but I couldn’t resist!
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass
by Bring Back Primoz on Jul 27, 2010 11:04 AM EDT reply actions
Gerald Henderson = The Invisible Man
honorable mention:
Tyson Chandler = Awakenings (after a long catatonic episode, he finally wakes and can suddenly move and function better than anyone ever thought he would)
Greg Oden = Boogie Nights (insert Dirk Diggler penis joke here)
My sources can beat up your sources
by Ourdaywillcome on Jul 27, 2010 11:47 AM EDT reply actions
Awakenings
Did you read the link DA posted about Team USA? They said that Tyson Chandler was the by far the squad’s best center.
If the Bobcats can’t pull off the “big trade” did they pull the trigger to soon on trading TC?
"It's the one that says Bad Motherfucker."
Shaq = Pulp Fiction
Shaquille Oneal was drafted in 1992 and played his first season with Orlando in 1992-1993. In 1994, Pulp Fiction was released.
Then, in 1995, Pulp Fiction was nominated for multiple Oscars — including Best Picture. In the end the film won many accolades including one Oscar for Best Writing for a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, but fell short for the title of Best Picture. During the 1994-95 season still playing with Orlando, Shaq won many personal accolades in leading the Magic to the NBA finals but ultimately fell short too against the Olajuwan led Houston Rockets.
In 1996 Shaq left the small market Magic for Hollywood and LA’s glitz. Shaq was arguably the league’s most dominant player for a decade and has made over 20 million dollars in SALARY every year since. Pulp Fiction has enjoyed great popularity and is considered one of the coolest & best films of the last 20 years if not ever.
Both are great for quotes:
"I’ll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don’t know what comes after century." — Shaq
Vincent: Have you ever given a foot massage?
Jules: [scoffs] Don’t be tellin’ me about foot massages. I’m the foot fuckin’ master.
Vincent: Given a lot of ‘em?
Jules: Shit yeah. I got my technique down and everything, I don’t be ticklin’ or nothin’.
Vincent: Would you give a guy a foot massage?
[Jules gives Vincent a long look, realizing he’s been set up]
Jules: Fuck you.
REPORTER: Shaq, do you have a special routine before the playoffs?
SHAQ: Yeah, I let your mother rub my feet.
I've got a million of these....seriously
"I’m upset at myself. I should have had 50. I missed 13 free throws. That’s unacceptable. If I want to be accepted by Wilt and Kareem and Russell I’ve got to start playing better than that. Right now I’m still in the class of Hakeem and David Robinson and that’s not good enough for me. I want to be out there with the immortals." — Shaq
"I don’t know how it is for you earthlings, but where I’m from, strength is mental."
Shaq quotes are really great.
+10
because Pulp Fiction is my fav.
ill just start calling Shaq “Marcellus”
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
by StudMuffin15 on Jul 27, 2010 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Imagine Shaq saying:
What now? Let me tell you what now. I’ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin’ negroes, who’ll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’ma get medieval on your ass.
that would make my life complete.
somebody tell him to say it. PLEASE.
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
by StudMuffin15 on Jul 27, 2010 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Michael Jordan and Larry Brown = Sideways
MJ is perfect for the role of insatiable cooch hound doing his dirt with no apologies.
LB is the obsessive neurotic who gets the girl in the end. Actually I only saw the first 15 minutes of Sideways so I’m assuming a girl was got in the end.
“a girl was got in the end”
Enjoy.
by and1droid on Jul 27, 2010 12:56 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Dwight Howard = ?
Dwight Howard?
nope, I got nothing
"We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors." - Weldon Drew
I'll tell ya about the Magic It'll free your soul but it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock n roll
"I thank my teammates for letting their men blow by them." - Alonzo Mourning after winning the DPOY award
by NC Magic Fan on Jul 27, 2010 1:09 PM EDT reply actions
Dwight Howard is Juno
An excellent player/movie by any means. However, it’s somewhat overhyped (best picture, really?). But despite that, it gets by on his/it’s cutesy wootsy factor. For the movie, this is hipster lingo and for Dwight this means the “aww I fouled him? Me? But look at this phony smile! And look at the surprise on my face.” Yeah those shenanigans. Also, they are strong in mostly one category. Movie: wit; DH: defense. Yet they do well in other parts as well. The acting is good in Juno and DH gets by on offense. Both are sure to be enjoyed by most people.
Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is,
I get more props and stunts than Bruce Willis
- Guru, of Gangstarr
Yeah, and we know who'll be shooting non stop
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Cat Scratch Reader's resident optimist.
hahaha!!!
+1
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
by StudMuffin15 on Jul 27, 2010 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Alonzo Harris to Jake Hoyt or Coach Brown to Augustin?
“You can be number six if you act now. But I ain’t holding no hands, okay? I ain’t baby-sitting. You got today and today only to show me who and what you’re made of.”
"JERRY SLOAN AINT GOT S***T ON ME!"
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
by StudMuffin15 on Jul 27, 2010 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think you meant Sean Kemp = Cheaper by the Dozen
Plot: Man fathers a ton of kids, and is employed in sports.
By that logic
Half of all athletes in America = cheaper by the dozen
Adam Morrison = Cloverfield
because you have no idea as to whats going on
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
Adam Morrison = Bubble Boy
Young man who is sheltered from society eventually seeks “real world”, only to be disappointed and fail. eventually he is redeemed (by sitting the bench and winning two rings).
i assume
this is your update?
i like it.
where’s Ah-Nold at?
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
by StudMuffin15 on Jul 27, 2010 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
There will be LOTS more coming soon...
Trying to get the rust off…
by andrewlail76 on Jul 27, 2010 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions
A couple
Anyone on Larry Brown’s teams = Gone in 60 Seconds
Diop = Breaking Glass
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass
by Bring Back Primoz on Jul 27, 2010 8:22 PM EDT reply actions
Diop=Pootie Tang
(no offense to our Pootie btw)
iconic mess of 90 minutes.
--(insert quote, lyric, or joke here)
by StudMuffin15 on Jul 27, 2010 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
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