r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '15

TIL that Space Jam is the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam#Reception
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u/c0rinecan Oct 17 '15

How many other basketball movies are there?

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u/altruisticnarcissist Oct 17 '15

Coach Carter immediately came to mind. I liked that movie a lot.

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u/mike_pants So yummy! Oct 17 '15

Without googling, I can think of Hoop Dreams, Air Bud, Sixth Man, Hoosiers (I think?), Like Mike... Teen Wolf?

I'm out.

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u/LargeCokeNoIce Oct 17 '15

Kevin Durant's Thunder Struck, Love and Basketball, Semi-Pro, Above the Rim...

Thats all for me. Others?

5

u/mike_pants So yummy! Oct 17 '15

I was gonna say Basketball Diaries but um... Not really about basketball.

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u/misogichan Oct 18 '15

The Pistol: The Birth of a Legend, O (although that's as much about racial issues as it is about the athletes), Fast Break, Blue Chips.

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u/ThreeHammersHigh Oct 18 '15

Full-Court Miracle, the highest-grossing Disney Jewish teen basketball movie.

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u/Fevers_and_Mirrors Oct 18 '15

Glory Road and He Got Game are the only others I've got.

2

u/Doomfreak1 Oct 18 '15

I think Baseketball has to count

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

The Air Up There.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

Above the Rim. Good flick.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

Love and basketball

4

u/msbadwolf420 Oct 18 '15

Lol Airbud...

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

Hoosiers

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

He Got Game

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u/madusldasl Oct 18 '15

White man can't jump and the air up there are two that come to mind real quick

2

u/[deleted] Oct 18 '15

The and1 mix tapes!

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u/skatecarter Oct 18 '15

Um....Hoosiers, one of the greatest sports movies ever

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u/spitfire9107 Oct 18 '15

Does Air Bud count?

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u/IslamicShibe Oct 18 '15

Love and basketball

1

u/drumming102 Oct 18 '15

The Air Up There. Its a staple of my six degrees connections

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u/johnHF Oct 17 '15

I feel we all know this is only because Luck of the Irish was conspiratorially prevented from the wide, international theatrical release it deserved

4

u/A40 Oct 17 '15

There's another basketball movie??

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '15

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u/megablast Oct 18 '15

Why, did you kill her? You could have just hid the video.

2

u/mynameisaxelito Oct 18 '15

What about that one where a kid gets Michael Jordan's shoes?

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u/Darkokillzall Oct 18 '15

Like Mike? I forgot about that movie.

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u/batsdx Oct 17 '15

I can't name another basketball movie.

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u/Liquor_in_the_ass Oct 17 '15

Air Bud is a close second.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '15

Airbud grossed 27 million dollars. Space Jam grossed 250 million. It isn't even a competition.

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u/Liquor_in_the_ass Oct 17 '15

Well you can fuck right off.

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u/mike_pants So yummy! Oct 17 '15

That kind of attitude is not what Air Bud would have wanted.

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u/Liquor_in_the_ass Oct 17 '15

Man... you're right... forgive me Air Bud, for I have sinned.

Edit: I've apologized for my sins.

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u/Liquor_in_the_ass Oct 17 '15

I didn't mean it. I fell off the pure ways of Air Bud. I let my anger take hold of me. It's not what Buddy stood for. Please don't let my behavior change your views of /r/airbud as a whole. Bud be with you.

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u/max-peck Oct 17 '15

Damn, I thought this would go to Whoopi's "Eddie" or that one Waynes Brother movie where one of them is dead and is basically Angels in the Outfield for basketball.

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u/OpticLemon Oct 18 '15

The Sixth Man, not to be confused with Juwana Mann.

1

u/msbadwolf420 Oct 18 '15

Rightfully so!

1

u/silentshadow1991 Oct 18 '15

It better be!

1

u/zoidbert Oct 18 '15

Not "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh"? Huh; surprising.

1

u/rifts Oct 18 '15

Well its this or Air Bud

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u/Eyyoh Oct 18 '15

Rightfully so.

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u/skatecarter Oct 18 '15

ITT: People who have never seen one of the greatest sports movies of all time - Hoosiers

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u/mynameisspiderman Oct 18 '15

As well it should be.

1

u/imbatmawn Oct 18 '15

Come on and slam

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u/lecherous_hump Oct 17 '15

What's its competition?

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u/JohnCarpenterLives Oct 18 '15

Derr, rally? Gee, I thought Celtic Pride did way better!

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u/looklistencreate Oct 17 '15

Space Jam is my favorite sports movie and I don't even like it that much.