Slideshow: The best basketball films ever made

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Of all the major sports, basketball has arguably fared the worst on the big screen. For every beloved classic like 1986’s Academy Award nominated Hoosiers there’s at least a dozen critical and commercial flops: Air Bud, Eddie, The Air Up There, Juwanna Man and The Sixth Man just to name a few. Nevertheless, inspired by the latest entry in the b-ball sports film genre, Just Wright (starring Common and Queen Latifah), we’ve dug deep and come up with our favorite hoops flicks to date.