Fan Forum: What Is the Best Basketball Movie of All Time?

Give Josh McRoberts credit. He wants in for this year’s slam dunk contest, and he doesn’t care what anyone thinks. So much, in fact, that he’s willing to make a goofy video referencing an old basketball movie and even older cliche.

According to The Indianapolis Star, Roberts and teammate Brandon Rush made recreated a scene from the wildly popular movie White Men Can’t Jump in a video that will hit the Internet soon.

“I grew up watching the dunk contest,” McRoberts told the Star. “Now I want my part in it. It’ll be fun being in it if it happens.”

Whether McRoberts ends up in the dunk contest is one thing. However, there’s no questioning the merits of the movie he’ll be depicting as one of the best roundball flicks of all time.

The connection between the state of Indiana and basketball cinema is nothing new. If White Men Can’t Jump isn’t the best basketball movie of all time, then maybe Hoosiers, a movie about a high school basketball team in Indiana from the 1950s, is.

The Celtics-Pacers matchup in Indiana on Tuesday night has yet another film connection. Celtics sharpshooter Ray Allen starred alongside Denzel Washington in the unforgettable He Got Game. C’s center Shaquille O’Neal has had his share of spots on the big screen, perhaps none better, especially for basketball fans, than Blue Chips. Well, that, or Kazaam.

Then, there’s always Celtics Pride as a darkhorse.

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