Basketball Jones

With the basketball playoffs in full swing, it got me thinking about the best basketball movies of all time. Here's my top five:

#5 The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh-Julius Erving, Stockard Channing, Jonathan Winters, Flip Wilson, Meadowlark Lemon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Not the best, but Dr. J's in it!

#4 White Men Can't Jump-With Wesley "What Taxes" Snipes, Woody "How's the air up there?" Harrelson and Rosie "Hey, how you doin?" Perez. Gets to the comedy of street ball that often gets overlooked.

#3 Teen Wolf-Michael J. Fox as a teenage werewolf who howls on the court. Somehow it snuck in here. Maybe because I never saw Air Bud.

#2 Hoop Dreams- William Gates, Arthur Agee. Basketball, no basketball, one of the best documentaries of the last ten years.

#1 Hoosiers-Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper. Never gets old. Heart all the way through. The little guy wins one on the biggest stage. Kind of like the Atlanta Hawks tonight over the Boston Celtics.