Best Basketball Movies

When looking at basketball movies, they are certainly not in the same vein as baseball movies but many basketball movies host places in people's hearts.

As far as I am concerned the top place for basketball movies is an easy one. Hoosiers is the number one and top of the hill. Every year when I was growing up and it was just about basketball season again, my father and I would sit down and watch Hoosiers. The characters are great and anybody who ever played ball in a small school has to enjoy the tiny gyms and the fact that whole towns would pack up and travel with the team. Gene Hackman as the Coach who cares so much for his team and the boys learning fundamentals.

White Men Can't Jump was made great because of the chemistry between Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. There are some great games and moments. The discussions about what matters most with looking good but losing or looking bad but winning. It's not one that you have young basketball players watch and have them learn anything toward playing ball, but it is fun.

Blue Chips was certainly not a great flick, but it is fun to watch the game sequences with the college all stars of the day. Besides Hardaway and Shaq there is also Bobby Hurley, Rodney Rogers, Adonis Jordan, Allen Houston, Rick Fox, Ed Stokes, and Rex Walters. The cameos make this lame movie worth watching.

Above the Rim ruined basketball for a generation of ball players. Love and Basketball is not necessarily a basketball story. He Got Game needed to spend a little more time on the court. Space Jam is more of a cartoon than a basketball movie.

When it comes to movies on the game that Naismith gave us. Hoosiers is A # One

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