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The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #1. Hustle

The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #1. Hustle Getting the nod over Hoosiers, number one is a Netflix Adam Sandler movie. Adam Sandler is an overseas scout for the 76ers, going from hotel to hotel, game to game looking for something special, eating fast food. Married to Queen Latifah, with a daughter. Robert Duvall plays the owner and Ben Foster the son. While the owner believes in Sandler's Stanley Sugerman, Ben Foster has his own thoughts on how the 76ers should draft. Jaleel White, Kenny Smith and Heidi Gardner who is the daughter of Duvall's character and another friend to Stanley are also on the personnel team. When Duvall's character passes away, Foster goes his own way against Stanley's wishes. It's the same setup premise as Gladiator. Instead of emperor, Duvall wants to make Sandler an assistant telling Sandler not to back down ever. That statement drives the rest of the movie. Foster demotes Stanley and puts him back as a scout which Sandler isn't happy with

The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #2. Hoosiers

 The Top 40 Basketball Movies - #2. Hoosiers One of the first movies that comes up when talking with people about what the best basketball movie is. Only eclipsed by Air and Hoosiers from a critic standpoint but Air is very recent so doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. Audience score is only like 7th for RT which maybe it's biggest reason it's number 2 though I put it 4th as well. I'm just a White Men Can't Jump fan and this was the first time watching Hoosiers.  And if we count BASEketball as a basketball movie, which I did here, I think 4th is reasonable. Can you guess #1 yet? With such high expectations I did my best to watch it trying not to let that impede my judgment. It's better to me than The Way Back and Coach Carter but not by much. Though the plot is very similar to those two. New coach, nobody believes in us concept. Takes the coach awhile to warm up and the town in this case takes time to warm up. We have a star athlete that won't play for the