Team USA basketball vs. France live stream, TV channel: How to watch Olympics gold medal game, start time
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Team USA is one win away from earning its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in men’s basketball and NBC Sports has you covered with all you need to know about tonight’s matchup against France. Keep reading for more information including how to watch the gold medal game, Team USA vs. France start time, TV channel and live streaming options and more.
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After losing to France back on July 25 in group play in Tokyo, Team USA has a chance at redemption tonight when they take on the French men’s national team featuring Nicolas Batum and Rudy Gobert. In that late July matchup, France closed the game on a 16-2 run and came from behind to beat Team USA 83-76. The loss was the USA’s first in the Olympics since 2004. In their last game against Australia, Team USA captain Kevin Durant had 23 points, nine rebounds and two steals while Devin Booker had 20 points and Jrue Holiday scored 11 with eight assists and eight rebounds.
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The gold medal match between the U.S. men’s basketball team and France will air live in primetime on NBC and Peacock beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, August 6. The game will also be streamed live on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports App. Learn more about how to get Peacock Premium here.
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Team USA vs. France basketball time
Date: Friday, August 6
Start time: 10:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. PT)
Location: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan
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Twenty-four minutes at Hayward: Track and field worlds take frenetic turn
By Tim LaydenJul 18, 2022, 8:19 AM EDT
EUGENE, Oregon – It is often argued that track and field is too ponderous and sprawling, too slow and too inaccessible for a modern audience whose synapses have been fried and shrunk to a length so short that an entire NBA game can be reduced to a TikTok post featuring one dunk and one dime, and possibly a mascot eating popcorn or a celebrity drinking wine at courtside. That meets are too long and too confusing, with throwing here, and jumping there and running all around and how can anyone be expected to follow it all? Maybe there’s a sliver of truth in all of this. Tastes evolve.
Or just maybe you needed to be here Sunday night at the new Hayward Field on the Day Three of the 18th Track and Field World Championships, and the first in the United States. Maybe you needed to see U.S. athletes win nine medals in a single day, four of them gold, both championship records. Maybe you needed to see a 27-year-old American woman who still logs hours as a cashier at Chipotle, fling the hammer farther than any other woman in the world for a gold medal; or three big American men sweep the medals in the shot; or a tiny 35-year-old Jamaican woman win her seventh global 100-meter championship, establishing herself as maybe the best female track and field athlete in history. Maybe you needed to see a very messy false start, gutting a hometown star.
But there’s helpful news: Most of it happened in a frenetic window shorter than half an inning of a Major League baseball games. Think of it as Twenty-four Minutes at Hayward. (All times approximate, don’t @ me with your timestamps).
7:28 p.m.: A crystalline sky overhead, slowly darkening, temperatures dipping toward the low-70s as if Eugene had put climate change on hold for a night (two nights, actually, as Saturday was splendid as well). A breeze swirling around the new stadium, which was mostly full for the second consecutive night. U.S. pole vaulter Sandi Morris, 30, stands at the end of the runway, safely in possession of a silver medal to match the silvers she won the at the 2016 Olympics, and 2017 and ’19 Worlds, but needing a clearance at 16 feet, ¾ inches to pass teammate Katie Nageotte, the 2021 Olympic gold medalist, and move into first place.
It had already been a successful day for the U.S.: Early in the afternoon, Brooke Andersen, 27 had taken gold in the hammer throw and teammate Janee’ Kassanavoid had won bronze. (They followed DeAnna Price, who won the gold medal at the 2019 Worlds in Doha, Qatar). Both are of the generation of U.S. women’s throwers who were recruited into the sport not because they were big, but because they were explosive athletes, with deep backgrounds in multiple sports. “I played every sport except track and field,” said Kassanavoid. Andersen was a 135-pound soccer player who idolized Mia Hamm. “I didn’t lift a weight until college,” she said. Now she weighs 185lbs and has retained her quickness and agility in the circle. But the life of a thrower has obstacles: Not long ago, Andersen trained while working a total of 60 hours at GNC and Chipotle, and she still snags hours behind the counter at the latter. But she also recently signed a contract with Nike, nudging toward full professional status.
7:29 p.m.: Morris, whose second attempt had been agonizingly close, wasn’t close on the third, leaving Nageotte with gold. “I wanted the gold,” said Morris. “I didn’t do enough to earn it. But 4.90 [meters, the 16-3/4] is a high bar, and everything has to be perfect, and it wasn’t. ”
Nageotte spent much of the year battling a post-Olympic emotional letdown that nearly dragged her into retirement. “After the Olympics, I never got a break,” she said. “I got a physical break, but I never got a mental break. It was five years of stress, trying to make the team and win a medal and I really didn’t come back around until the last two months.”
7:31 p.m.: In the shot put ring, no more than 50 feet from the pole vault landing pit, and adjacent to the backstretch of the orange running track, 33-year-old American Joe Kovacs, readied for the fifth of his six throws, chalk spread across his neck. Kovacs won the world title in 2015 and ’19, and had been engaged in a long battle with countryman Ryan Crouser, who has won the last two Olympic golds and last summer broke Randy Barnes’ (suspicious) 31-year-old world record. Kovacs, nearly as wide as tall, launches a throw of 22.89 meters [75 feet, 1 ¼ inches] to take the lead over Crouser by seven inches. “I expected that from Joe,” said Crouser, “because he has such a potential for big throws.”
Kovacs said: “I expected Ryan to come right back and throw far.” They are like domestic partners, finishing each other’s sentences.
7:32 p.m.: On the front straightaway, eight men warmed up for the final of the 110-meter hurdles. The plot was thus: Grant Holloway of the U.S. was favored to win gold in Tokyo, but staggered off the last of 10 hurdles and was second behind Hansle Parchment of Jamaica. They would meet again. Subplot: This would be the last hurdle race for Devon Allen of the U.S. who ran track and played football at Oregon, before trying to make the Philadelphia Eagles’ roster as a receiver and kick returner.
Suddenly Parchment lay on the track, stretching, and then stood and limped off. A narrative-shifting DNS (did not start).
The shot put competition was paused before Crouser’s fifth throw, to give the hurdles center stage. The 6-foot-7, 315-pound Crouser stood alone on the infield in his red U. S. singlet and blue tights.
7:33 p.m.: The starter’s pistol crackled for the hurdles, and then crackled again. A false start. Crouser was called back into the shot ring, unexpectedly quickly. “It’s track, so you know things will go wrong,” said Crouser. “You just have to be prepared.” He was prepared. Crouser initiated rhythmic clapping and then tossed the shot – he makes it appear hollow – and it landed with a puff of pale brown dust, very near Kovacs’s mark.
7:34 p.m.: The meet announcer intones that the false start has been charged to lane three: Devon Allen. There was an audible gasp. Okay, school in session: False starts are assessed through an electronic system that measures how quickly an athlete applied pressure to pads on their starting blocks. If that pressure – the reaction time – is applied sooner than .100 seconds, it is a false start, on the theory that the athlete anticipated the gun, rather than reacting to it. This is an arbitrary number, but in theory with scientific underpinnings. Allen’s reaction time was .099 seconds, meaning that he was disqualified for reacting one one-thousandth of a second too quickly. (His reaction time in the semifinal was .101 seconds, safe by two one-thousandths of a second).
Allen wandered around, shocked. Twice he climbed over a fence to talk with start officials, to no avail. Other runners shuffled about, sympathetic but waiting to run. The scene was reminiscent of the men’s 100 meters at the 2003 Worlds, when Jon Drummond of the U.S. was disqualified for a false start (under different rules) and laid down on the track in protest before eventually leaving. Allen did not lay down on the track. “I know for a fact that I did not false start,” said Allen afterward. “I didn’t react until I heard the gun.”
7:35 p.m.: Crouser’s distance appeared on the small infield video board and is announced: 22.94 meters, three inches beyond Kovacs and into first place. It is a World Championship meet record.
Allen wanders some more, arms outstretched, palms up. Holloway is surprised but not shocked by Allen’s fate and the general state of chaos prevailing: “I’m on Devon’s side; I don’t think he false-started,” Holloway says. “But it’s athletics and, pardon my language, shit happens.”
7:37 p.m.: An official theatrically raises a red and black card at Allen, officially disqualifying him from the race. There are boos. There is murmuring. Shit happens. Allen walks off the track, under the grandstand and out of sight. The other hurdlers line up, only six of them. No Parchment, no Allen. Holloway, in lane four, will run with empty lanes on both sides. It’s a lousy look.
My take: On the one hand, it’s preposterous that Allen was allowed to run with a reaction time of .101 seconds and tossed for a reaction time of .099 seconds, and thus deprived of running in the most important race of his life (with Oregon fans similarly deprived, a buzzkill moment on an otherwise thrilling day). And he did not appear to move, whereas most false starts come with some visible backup. (A false start in the women’s 100-meter semifinals also looked very iffy). On the other hand, there has to be a false start rule of some kind. Older versions, in which a runner was disqualified for two false starts, led to long delays and runners throwing flyers indiscriminately. More to the point, there was no solution available in the moment. You can’t just give the batter four strikes on the spot because three is a bad rule (or because he’s popular). But it was a downer in the building.
7:39 p.m.: Holloway rolled to his second consecutive world title – around that Olympic silver – in 13.04 seconds. “Parchment goes down, Devon false started, which he didn’t, but it happened,” said Holloway. “You say to yourself, ‘Focus, just be the first one to the line, like any other race.’” Trey Cunningham of the U.S. took silver, a one-two U.S. finish. “Not my best race,” said Cunningham. “But it’s a shiny medal.”
7:43 p.m.: Kovacs’s last throw was short of Crouser’s mark. Crouser’s last throw – “I just swung for the fences,” he said – is a foul. The bronze medal goes to 27-year-old American Josh Awotunde, who recovered from a spring pectoral strain, spent time living with Crouser and under his wing, and threw an 11-inch personal best on his first throw. It was the first 1-2-3 shot put sweep in Worlds history and followed up the U.S. sweep in the men’s 100 meters Saturday night. There would be one more, not by Americans.
7:46 p.m.: Seven Americans wore flags and worked their way around the track, not together, but in synch, celebrating, posing. Morris and Nageotte on the first turn. Crouser, Kovacs and Awotunde on the backstretch. Holloway and Cunningham on the far turn. A couple firetrucks, a marching band and it could have been a parade. The track was cleared for one last event.
7:52 p.m.: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica, 35 years old and five feet tall, ripped away from the blocks and bounded to a gold medal in the 100 meters in 10. 67 seconds, a world championship record. She won Olympic 100-meter gold medals in 2008 and 2012 (along with a bronze in Rio in 2016 and a silver behind Elaine Thompson-Herah last year in Tokyo) and has won the 100 meters at five of the last seven worlds. She is the only woman to break 10.70 seconds five times (Thompson-Herah has done it four times; Flo-Jo did it three times). There is little doubt Fraser-Pryce is the best female sprinter in history and quite possibly the best in all events. It’s a worthy discussion.
“This is my favorite title, doing it at 35,” said Fraser-Pryce. “ Yes, I said 35. Age doesn’t change anything. If I’m healthy, I’m going to compete and I’m not going to stop until I don’t believe that.” Shericka Jackson followed Fraser-Pryce for silver and Thompson-Herah for bronze, a sweep to match the U.S. men 24 hours earlier. They too, each grabbed the familiar Jamaican flags. Fans began descending from their seats and spilled into the concourse. A breeze stiffened from the north. Seven more days remain.
Fred Kerley stakes his claim to Usain Bolt’s throne in Eugene
By Tim LaydenJul 17, 2022, 12:40 AM EDT
EUGENE, Oregon – It is accepted in track and field, both in silence and aloud, that there will likely never be another Usain Bolt. There will never be an athlete with Bolt’s ethereal combination of speed, presence and joy. Never another with Bolt’s relentless seizure of moments and of history. Never another with his ability to hoist a niche (being kind here) sport, throw it across his shoulders – or clench it in his radiant smile like a pirate’s scabbard – and make it not just relevant, but viral. He ran faster than any human, more gleefully than should be allowed, and pulled an entire ecosystem along in his slipstream. He was a unicorn.
On the other hand, never is a long time. Track and field did not stop contesting meets or 100- and 200-meter races when Bolt left to start a family of children with weather-themed names. Bolt has been gone for half a decade; his last races were at the 2017 World Championships, and they were not pretty. Two years later, Christian Coleman of the U.S. took the world title, decisively, in 9.76 seconds. He was a short, explosive sprinter in mold of 2000 Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene, and he was just 23 years old. There was much promise. But subsequently Coleman got sideways with the doping police (three whereabouts failures, meaning he did not test positive but missed too many tests), was suspended for two years, and missed the 2021 Olympics. (He is back, but keep reading).
The post-Bolt 100 meters was left adrift, missing the big man and not just his schtick, but his speed. Missing a logical successor. Italian Marcell Jacobs was the longshot winner of the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo, and bless his Texas-born heart, Jacobs will never buy another bottle of wine in his country, but he was not the heir to Bolt’s greatness. He was a one-off, entertaining and perfect on the day when it mattered most, but perhaps never again. Track was left still searching – turning over rocks in the wood, to find only moss and mud.
Until now. Maybe. Not that it has discovered another Bolt, but perhaps another unicorn. (Hold the eyerolls and stay with me). Perhaps a worthy king, if not a worthy successor.
On Saturday night at the new Hayward Field, Day Two of the 18th World Track and Field Championships and the first in the United States, 27-year-old Fred Kerley – just three years ago one of the best 400-meter runners in the world, until improbably dropping down to the 100 meters last year (and winning Olympic silver) – won the 100-meter final in a time of 9.86 seconds. He was just .02 seconds in front of two other U.S. sprinters, silver medalist Trayvon Bromell and bronze medalist Marvin Bracy. It was the first 1-2-3 100-meter sweep at the worlds since 1991, when Americans Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell pulled off the sweep. The U.S. had also swept the medals at the first worlds in 1983, with Lewis, Calvin Smith and Emmit King.
In an interview on the track, broadcast to the near-capacity crowd, Kerley shouted, “We said we were gonna do it, and we did it. USA, baby.”
Kerley is big (6-foot-3 ½) like Bolt (6-foot-5). He is, for the moment, nearly unbeatable, like Bolt, although not really like Bolt yet. Kerley is fast, and while not as fast as Bolt’s best times, he seems poised to challenge Tyson Gay’s 13-year-old American record of 9.69 in a competition without exhausting rounds. At the very least, Kerley has earned the title of world’s fastest human; at the very most, he has the potential to earn much more. As for showmanship, that might take some time; as effusive as Bolt was, that is how taciturn Kerley is. That would not matter in some sports, but it matters in track and field, where TV ratings cannot thrive on performance alone. But stay tuned. There were signs that this, too, could change, right after the race. (And it is notable that Bolt’s manager, Ricky Simms, is also Kerley’s manager. “They communicate all the time,” says Simms. “Usain has really been a great mentor to Fred.”)
Kerley came into the race a heavy favorite. He has been the dominant 100-meter runner in the world since last year’s Olympics and ran the world’s best of 9.76 at the U.S. Championships in June. He matched that time in Friday night’s heats here.
He was less dominant in the final. Kerley broke from the blocks in lane four, stride with Bracey in three, and they ran nearly in lockstep for 90 meters before Kerley snatched a sliver of daylight and then leaned cautiously, chest forward, arms wide, like a man trying to savor a summer breeze on a warm evening. He had beaten Bracey narrowly, though clearly. But far out in lane eight, running blind, Bromell had left Coleman – back in the game after his suspension – behind and closed furiously to nearly catch Kerley at the line.
Kerley applied the brakes, came to a full stop in the middle of the turn and stared up at the giant video board, as if willing his name to appear first. It did. Kerley threw both hands into the air, and a meet worker draped his gold medal around his neck. And then Kerley snagged the medal from around his neck and alighted on a delirious victory lap, slapping hands with front-row spectators and waving his arms while the medal’s cloth lanyard dangled toward the ground. It seemed his lap was nearly in the 43-second range that he had once run, and the display was, dare we say, Bolt-esque.
“I was talking about that before that race,” said Kerley. “Thinking about, ‘What should I do?’ Then I decided I would do that. Man, in my position in life, where I come from, it’s a blessing every day to wake up and breathe. So I’m thankful for that. And I’m thankful for this gold medal.” Hold that thought.
Bracy’s silver was his first global medal; Bromell’s was his first since 2015, when he was third in the worlds in Beijing. He subsequently twice tore his Achilles tendon, potentially ending his career. On the track Saturday night, he cried openly. “Tears of joy,” he said. “First medal in seven years. So yeah, tears of joy.” As to racing in lane eight, Bromell said, “Not to throw shade, but I wish I had been next to those guys. I might have timed my lean a little differently.” That sounded like shade. “Nah,” said Bromell. “Those are my guys.”
Kerley said he never saw Bromell. “Me and my lane,” he said.
As to Kerley referencing where he came from, that would be Taylor, Texas, a town of about 15,000, 35 miles northeast of Austin. Kerley was raised by an aunt in a home with 13 cousins and little means. He played football and basketball and ran track in high school, but didn’t devote serious training time to sprinting until his senior in high school, when a broken collarbone curtailed his football season and shortened basketball’s. “So I started running track more seriously,” Kerley told Track and Field News in 2019. “I didn’t have the greatest times.” He split 46.9 on a relay, which is actually not shabby, but might seem slow in his rearview mirror.
Kerley went to junior college and in 2014, made his first trip to Eugene, for USA Nationals. According to U.S. team chiropractor Josh Glass, who is close with Kerley, Kerley flew to Portland, took a bus to Eugene, ran poorly and ran out of money, subsisting on popcorn, and then bummed a ride back to Portland. Simms says, “If Fred seems hesitant to open up, it’s because he’s not quick to trust people because of the way he’s lived a lot of his life.”
But he got faster. He transferred to Texas A&M, where in 2017, he ran 43.70 to break 1992 Olympic gold medalist Quincy Watts’ collegiate record.
He made the world team that summer and finished seventh in London. Two years later he took a bronze medal in the worlds in Doha and a ran a personal best of 43.64 seconds, sixth-fastest ever by an American. He seemed assured of a lucrative career in an event the U.S. has long dominated. Then came the pandemic lull, and a gradual return. Kerley began running 100s and 200s, while never disavowing the 400. A year ago, he ran 9.78 and finished third at the Olympic Trials and took a silver medal (beyond Jacobs) in the Gamers. His transition was complete.
He became one of those athletes who comes to track and field greatness not in a straight line, but through a maze of trial and error, finding success in one event, only to find more success in another one.
U.S. women’s shot putter Chase Ealey, 27 years old like Kerley, is another one. Early in her high school career she was a champion sprinter and thrower, only to later emphasize the shot and eventually to make that her main event. (It is not as strange a shift as it might seem – both sprints and throws require explosive power. “A lot of throwers were sprinters,” Ealey said before the meet). On Saturday night, 15 minutes before Kerley folded himself into the blocks, she became the first American woman to win a world outdoor championship in the shot (Michelle Carter won three medals as well as the Olympic gold medal in 2016). Track and field has always been a something-for-everyone sport, occasionally in the same athlete.
It’s important to emphasize: Sprinters often move up in distance, as sharpness fades and speed endurance becomes more accessible than pure 100-meter explosives. They rarely move down. They even more rarely move down from excellence in the 400 to even greater excellence in the 100. “Maybe way back in history,” says NBC’s Ato Boldon. “Not in modern times that I can think of.” (A note here: Bolt was strictly a 200-meter runner early in his career, until he dropped down to the 100 in 2008 and twice broke the world record and won Olympic gold. So there is that, and it was stunning at the time, and in retrospect, stripped of what Bolt did afterward, still is).
Kerley’s range is stunning: He is one of only three men to run sub-10 for the 100 meters, sub-20 for the 200 meters and sub-44 for the 400 meters. The others are Michael Norman of the U.S. and 400-meter world record holder Wayne Van Niekerk of South Africa. Notably, both of them remain 200 to 400 specialists, while Kerley now owns the 100 and will also run the 200 meters here, a pure sprinter.
And as darkness fell on Eugene, the best in the world, next in the line of succession.
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Team USA faces a rematch with France in the gold medal game of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s basketball tournament on Friday, August 6 (8/6/2021).
The game will be broadcast on Peacock Premium, the video streaming service from NBC. It will also be included in NBC’s Olympics primetime coverage at 10:30 p.m. ET, which can be streamed live on fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV and other live TV streaming services.
The United States men have a chance for payback against France in the Gold Medal game. France is the only team to have beaten the USA during the tournament so far, during the opening game of the preliminary round.
In the semifinals, Team USA blitzed past Australia 97-78. They outscored the Australians 32-10 in the 3rd quarter, bouncing back from a 3-point deficit at halftime.
France eked out a 90-89 win over Slovenia in the semifinals, leaving a bronze medal matchup between Slovenia and Australia.
Here’s the schedule for the bronze and gold medal matches.
Gold medal: Friday, 8/6 France vs. the United States, 10:30 p.m. on Peacock Premium.
Bronze medal: Saturday, 8/7 Slovenia vs. Australia, 7:00 a.m. on USA Network. Stream on fuboTV, Sling, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV
Gold medal rebroadcast: Saturday, 8/7 France vs. the United States, 6:00 p.m. on NBCSN. Stream on fuboTV, Sling, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV
You can watch NBC’s multi-sport primetime coverage on NBC, which will include parts of the men’s basketball final, on fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV, each of which include a 1-week free trial. However, the only dedicated live broadcast and stream of the game is exclusive to Peacock Premium, which does not currently offer a free trial.
Saturday’s 6 p.m. rebroadcast will be available on fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV, as well as NBCOlympics.com with a cable provider of live TV service login.
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How to watch the NBA in the era of parallel imports - Bank shot - Blogs
The NBA has done everything in its power to make it impossible to enjoy American basketball in Russia. However, if you really want something, then any prohibitions become conditional.
Here are at least five ways to touch the beautiful (and now also the forbidden).
NBA League Pass
The most convenient and traditional way is to purchase a subscription on the official website of the NBA.
Benefit : You get access to all matchday matches (both live and recorded), plus shortened versions of the matches with original English commentary. This year, League Pass has a nice new feature: the delay between real time and the broadcast will be reduced to a few seconds.
Disadvantage: it is rather problematic to subscribe in Russia. To do this, you need to have, firstly, a VPN with good speed, and, secondly, a non-Russian card with which you can pay for the subscription.
“Took the ball”
When Megogo, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the NBA, abandoned Russia, it naturally happened that the channel's Russian commentators continued to work, only within the framework of the “Took the ball” project.
This season, the telegram channel "Took the ball" shows 1-2 matches every day: last season, when the project started from scratch, the broadcasts attracted 2-5 thousand viewers with record numbers during the final series.
Advantage: The main advantage of "Took the Ball" over its competitors is a team of experienced and well-known commentators. Project boss Dmitry Materansky managed to unite everyone who has experience working at Matcha, Viasat or Megogo: Vladimir Gomelsky, Igor Znamensky, Vladimir Spivak and Andrey Pankrashev.
Disadvantage: "Took the ball" is clearly not chasing the quantity, but offers those matches that are considered the most interesting, so you can not always see your favorite team here (especially if you are a fan of some Detroit) . The project does not even cover absolutely all playoff matches, at least that was the case last season.
You also need to understand that the “Took the ball” commentators are not always perfect either. Young representatives of the project do not always quickly figure out what is happening on the site, experienced ones promote expert opinion (often controversial and annoying to many) right during the games, and all together they sin with monotonous humor (and endless jokes on Sergey Abaev), from which you quickly get tired.
Despite all the power of production and the best conditions, "Took the ball", supported by the bookmaker, could not completely get rid of the main problem of import-substituting broadcasts: technical problems periodically occurred during the first season, and even Spivak's unstoppable irony at such moments the situation is not strong brightened up.
AANBA
The founder of online broadcasts in basketball is the legendary Volodya Korvalol - it was with him that the All About NBA project began in 2013.
“At first we streamed on the VK platform, then GoodGame, then VidiTV,” says Anton Kuzmichev, project manager. - The peak of those years is 15,000 spectators on Vidi during the 2016 NBA Finals, the same ones where Cleveland made a comeback from 1-3. At that moment, one of the funny episodes is that the servers of the VidiTV company fell, and they “asked” us not to post broadcasts for such volumes. So, in fact, not only the news, but also the broadcast branch of our project, which has been running for 7 years, started.
AANBA showed 65% of matches last season and plans to aim for 70% of matches in Russian and 10-15 in English next season.
The AANBA audience ranges from 500-1000 spectators at night matches and 2000 to 5000 at morning matches. The most popular game of last season is the first in a series between Boston and the Nets. It was watched live by 12,000 people
Advantage : “First, volumes. Secondly, commentators, - explains Anton Kuzmichev. “We have a pretty diverse staff of casters. Each of them carries its own informational agenda. Regarding the work of commentators, we often talk about the moments where they need to improve, because without this the comments would stagnate, but we are not satisfied with this situation. One way or another, almost all the actors see themselves as future professionals, although even now our approach is close to this. Another important episode of our work is the absence of donathunting. Since, in fact, commentators receive money from donations, we regulated them. Several left-wing people left the staff of commentators, who not only abused support, but also spoiled the organics of the broadcasts. This is no longer possible to meet in the expanses of aanba during the last season. This is all the more so."
Weakness : AANBA has two main problems that are typical for self-grown projects on the Internet.
The first one is hanging broadcasts, which sometimes slow down at the most interesting place.
The second is commentators without a professional school. They sometimes forget about what is happening and focus on donations. Many of those who are involved in commenting on matches at AANBA work at games of provincial Russian basketball clubs or amateur matches, but there are no people of the level and fame of Gomelsky, Materansky and Znamensky here.
Anton Kuzmichev says that they are working on both: “I think that without NBA broadcasts on public TV, the basketball fandom has no future. Any rights cost money. And it is not very clear how you can recoup the night spot on paid subscriptions. If suddenly such a topic is revived in Russia, then we would be happy to fly into it. The idea of "pirates" in the eyes of the public is slightly different from what is happening now. We ourselves used to sin with amateur comments with a share of peppercorns, but current trends have forced us to reconsider our position. In order not to lose the audience, we left something of our former self, the ability to communicate with a chat, for example, and significantly added in the technical aspect, focusing on immersion in the sport.”
Wild Sport
The Wild Sport VKontakte group started eight years ago with NBA broadcasts, but gradually mastered more and more other types of basketball. In addition to several matches of the NBA game day, almost the entire Euroleague is shown here (last year - 85%), friendly and official matches of the national teams, several matches of the national championships, with the exception of the VTB League (Spain, Turkey, and this year also France).
In live mode in the Wild Sport group, the NBA final was watched by 2-3 thousand spectators, the EuroBasket or Euroleague final - by 3-4 thousand spectators. Regular matches gather from 300 to 1000 people.
In total, the matches, according to the management of the group, get about 10-15 thousand views.
Advantage: “I think it's the commentators,” says project manager Andrey Levy. - Our studio is quite professional in this regard: many commentators work on television (or have worked on television), they are people with great experience. Plus, we regularly invite such wonderful guests as experts, such as Ivan Lazarev, Mikhail Terekhov, Anton Ponkrashov, Maxim Grigoriev, and other guys. We talk about basketball not only from the point of view of play-by-play, but also from the point of view of tactics, analytics, and some interesting facts.
There is certainly a future for the NBA basketball fandom without public TV coverage. People have been moving away from television for a long time and do not watch television in the modern sense. We follow the US principle. There is national television, there is local television, but a lot of time people spend on online platforms where they buy subscriptions and enjoy life: TNT and ESPN. This is more convenient than when you turn on the channel and they impose on you the match that you are watching. In Russia, it all develops thanks to ideological people who promote themselves. Will it get more financial support? Not sure. But as for the people who are interested, I think yes. For example, we basically do not work with bookmakers, we believe that if a person wants to support, then he does not need to buy a subscription, he can directly support the commentator and the studio. It seems to me that now it is a good platform to give content. Not only in the form of matches, but also in podcasts, documentaries and articles.”
In fact, the main advantage of Wild Sport is that most non-NBA basketball is broadcast here.
Flaw : "I think it's the commentators" could also be the Wild Sport's major flaw. After television broadcasts, the style of commenting on the Internet can be very embarrassing or at least seem unusual - especially when users' opinions and questions are counted right during basketball, the roll call of cities begins or donations are counted. One of the foreign coaches of the VTB League looked at the Wild Sport match of his national team and remained at a loss: “Five facts were mentioned - and all five are wrong.”
Standard lags in broadcasts are also present here.
Topbasket
Since last season, the most popular Youtube channel about basketball in Russian has a special telegram where broadcasts of NBA matches are posted with the original sound track. Usually during the season there appear three or four of the most interesting matches of the game day.
advantage: English (if you know it) and emphasis on the most interesting. Topbasket focuses not so much on an attractive sign, but on the quality of the spectacle. Therefore, noteworthy games of some “Houston” and “Oklahoma” get here, if they managed to give out a sparkling ending or comeback, go into overtime or put a winning baser.
Disadvantage: English (if you don't know it) and no live broadcasts. Matches begin to be uploaded in the morning Moscow time (approximately at 9-10 o'clock), and there is no way to follow your favorite team in real time. Plus, you have to make some efforts not to find out the result in advance (apparently, with these goals, a separate channel was allocated for matches).
A list of good basketball films: there will be stories about victories over oneself and the arrogance of others, there will be legendary basketball players and fictional stars from the ghetto. And then there will be NBA players and coaches who believed in their guys even when the whole world looked away and lowered its head. Basketball players do not give up - this is a sport for those who always strive to the top, even after hundreds of offensive falls. So it will be interesting for those who have not heard about players like Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal: there is something inspiring for everyone in sports movies.
Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive hurricane in US history, displacing more than half a million people from their homes, and the survivors of the disaster faced a lack of electricity, water, schools and jobs. August 5, 2005 will forever go down in the history of New Orleans, and in the cinema there will remain the exploits of people who, despite the difficulties, the helplessness of the authorities and the growing crime rate, believed that everything would work out and tried to return the victims to normal life. An example of such heroes is a basketball coach who brought together guys from different schools into one team and led them to a decent result in the state championship. Teenagers who previously did not know or dislike each other must come together in a short time and believe that the future is worth the effort, even if tomorrow the world collapses again.
A film about a guy and a girl who have been in love with each other and basketball since childhood. And in the outwardly happy, harmonious story, a whole minefield of dramas is scattered. Monica and Quincy devoted themselves to the game: they played in school, played in college, and also played after college. Only now, in the excitement and frenzied energy of the site, the guys began to forget that the rest of life is not a game. There is no arbiter here who will immediately notice the violation, and retribution for mistakes is not a card, but the loss of loved ones, loneliness, and sometimes someone's broken destinies.
Chasing a career and a dream at the expense of one's own happiness is just one problem that keeps Monica and Quincy from being together. Another sore point is the different price of success. Quincy, whose father is a famous NBA player, achieves the captaincy and flutters around the court as easily as if his fairy godmother is Jordan himself. During this time, Monica trains to the point of fainting, struggles with the gender stereotypes of a conservative mother, and still watches many basketball games from the bench.
Bottom line: in a simple story about two real athletes who hate to lose and be afraid to be weak, the creators fit both a suitable melodrama and a serious motivating movie. Here are touching scenes when young heroes play together on the lawn at night and dream about the future, and a well-developed metaphor that everything in life is like in basketball - fractures, losses, falls, helplessness, desperate jerks and the speed at which the world narrows down to one point. We didn’t forget about important questions about a career in professional sports and socially important topics, such as unwanted marriage and self-acceptance - everything to think about and not get bored with the visual.
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Omar Epps was nominated for the MTV Award for Best Actor.
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Pape is 17 Again (2009, USA)
comedy, romance
Director: Burr Steers Screenplay: Jason Filardi Starring: Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Matthew Perry
Mike O'Donnell whines all the time: kids don't obey, friend is a freak stuck in adolescence, job is boring, wife isn't the same anymore, tired of wearing a suit, no happiness, life sucks. In order to take his mind off these depressing thoughts a little, Michael drives his wife into depression and constantly mentally returns to his school years, to the day when he chose a family, and not a college with an athletic scholarship. When Mike was seventeen, his girlfriend became pregnant, and the star of the school basketball team, a dream boy with a bright future, gave up everything to stay with his lover and raise a child. Adult act of an adult man. But twenty years later, the supply of nobility and love in Mike's soul ended, and the hero turned into a capricious Dementor, pulling out all the good things from his loved ones. A karmic lesson is needed here, and the universe hurries to the hero with a magical cuff. Mike suddenly turns into a seventeen-year-old guy and becomes a classmate of his own son, goes to his own school and shines again on the basketball court. The coach adores him, schoolgirls drop textbooks at the mere sight of him, a sports career in basketball shines ahead again - but all this does not mean anything anymore, because there will not be the same one nearby. Mike needs to understand himself, help his children during a difficult school period and return to his beloved wife as soon as possible.
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And for this film, Zac Efron was nominated for the MTV Award for Best Actor.
His game (1998, USA)
sports drama
Director/Writer: Spike Lee (Uncaught, No Thief, Black Klansman) Cast: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich KinoSearch: 7.2 IMDb: 6.9
Jesus Shuttlesworth grows up without parents, takes care of his younger sister and beats out resentment against the world on the basketball court. And Jesus really has something to run furiously from, banging the ball on the asphalt - his father killed his mother six years ago. For this, Jake, the elder Shuttlesworth, was sentenced to fifteen years, but the head of the prison gives the killer a chance to reduce the term. The subject of the deal - Jesus, as the most visible and talented player in the city, must go to the right university to bring the local basketball team out of shameful oblivion. Jake is released from behind bars for a few days, but it is hardly possible to regain his son's trust so quickly after the murder of his mother.
The role of Jesus was played by Allen Ray, the NBA record three-pointer, sportsmanship award winner, basketball hall of famer and Olympic champion, a humble, intelligent basketball monster. You can definitely not worry about the quality of the image of the game on the screen. It also shows that real talent is not only a ticket to a secure future, but also a piece of fresh meat for starving predators. There is a fierce hunt for Jesus, and everyone around wants to use the guy for their own purposes - success is dizzy, but if you fall, the fanatical crowd will scatter, and out of a million outstretched hands, not one may remain.
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The film is not based on real events, but Tupac's fans note that the rapper did not seem to play - he was just himself on the screen.
Basketball fever (1996, USA)
comedy
Director: Tom Deserchio Screenplay: Judd Apatow ("Forty Year Old Virgin", "Knocked Up") Starring: Damon Wayans, Daniel Stern, Dan Aykroyd
The film is not so much about basketball, but about the fans of the major basketball league. Schoolteacher Mike and plumber Jimmy go to every Boston Celtics game and are willing to do anything for another win for their team. Even the kidnapping of the famous and player Scott Lewis, who plays for rivals and seriously threatens the victory of the Celtics. Scott had the imprudence to come to the bar shortly before the match - then Mike and Jimmy finally understand: while they are “part of the ship, part of the team”, their not very successful life is filled with vivid emotions and a sense of something significant, which means that the ship will never must drown.
Tom Shepard could play in the NBA and be friends with Shaquille O'Neal or Kobe Bryant. But instead, a talented man works as a school watchman: a gray reality without hopes and prospects is an excellent hiding place from feelings of guilt. Several years ago, Tom's friend died, and Shepard could never forgive himself for this. Now Tom takes the ball in his hands only at night and alone fights an invisible enemy. One of these workouts is noticed by the main character, high school student Kyle Watson. The guy plays brilliantly, but his temper and aggressiveness prevent Watson from getting an athletic scholarship at a prestigious college. But these qualities do not prevent Kyle from joining the criminal gang: the talented game of the schoolboy was noted by Ptah, the leader of the most influential gang in the area. Kyle finds it hard to resist the temptations: Bird knows what it's like to live in a poor neighborhood with a single mother, and offers Watson gifts for loyalty. Security guard Tom Shepard understands that Watson needs help, and the man will finally stop running from life and is trying to pull Kyle off the streets.
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White people can't jump (1992, USA)
sports drama, comedy
Director and screenwriter: Ron Shelton Cast: Uesley Snips, Woody Harrelson, Rozi Perez : 7.4 9012 IM
After the movie, Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes lit up in two nominations for the MTV award: for "Best Screen Duo" and "Best Kiss". Their criminal bromance really leaves few people indifferent: it's funny, it's powerful and it's unexpected.
Billy Hoyle realized that it was impossible to threaten South Central long before the release of the legendary comedy. The white guy Billy in the African American ghetto did not even try to show everyone what a cool basketball player he is, but he cleverly makes money on it. Blacks look at Billy as a naive child who got involved in a game with adult uncles, but in fact Billy turns out to be Eminem from streetball, and easily takes the money of those who do not believe in the white's success on the court. Billy carries all dishonestly earned banknotes into a three-liter piggy bank to pay off debts. Gloria, Billy's girlfriend, who dreams of a cozy home without any criminal sports, puts all her savings there. The only problem is, Billy and Gloria live in dreams of different rings, but it will not be clear soon. In the meantime, Sidney bursts into Billy's life - one of the skeptics, who at first did not recognize Billy as a serious player, and then realized that it was easier and more fun to monetize white stereotypes together. This is how an on-screen duo appeared, capable of pulling out both a hackneyed script and a two-hour timekeeping. 6.4
When the bosses of the big studios want to have some fun, Michael Jordan goes to the cartoon and plays basketball on the same team with Bugs Bunny for the fate of the entire cartoon world. Watch for anyone who misses the adventures of Looney Tunes characters and loves Jordan. And in 2021, Warner Bros. plan to have fun again: if the movie does not die out completely, there will be a sequel to "Jam" with LeBron James.
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The film also features the legendary "I Believe I Can Fly" by Ar Kelly, a Grammy winner for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
Air King (1997, USA, Canada)
comedy, family film
Director: Charles Martin Smith (The Way Home, Dolphin Story) Screenplay: Kevin DiCicco Starring: Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy McKenna
In this film, you can guess the motives of "Kashtanka": the dog is betrayed by a stupid clown owner, on the way to the shelter the dog gets lost, ends up in a house with a nice family, becomes a basketball legend, and so the former owner finds out about the loss, an evil clown who wants to make money on pet and trying to get it back. And yes, Buddy, a golden retriever, is great with a basketball and helps his boy Josh's school team win matches. It sounds absurd, but this movie has six sequels and only positive reviews on KinoPoisk, the film is built on the model of “a bad and ridiculous man offends a child and a cute little animal”, so at the end good smashes evil with a three-pointer in a beautiful jump - family viewing with children doomed to laughter, comfort and talk about getting a dog.
The movie was shot in collaboration with the NBA, so this film bypasses all other tapes in the list in terms of the number of cameos of famous athletes.
The plot of this film would look appropriate in the top about princesses - this is a film about Cinderella in basketball shorts. Calvin Cambridge is fourteen, an orphan and growing up in a boarding school, dreaming of someday getting into the "ball" in the basketball hall of fame. But Cinderella in a fairy tale for the prince was born in the wrong class, and Calvin for professional sports was born in the wrong height. It's time for magic to intervene - at a charity second-hand store, Calvin finds sneakers with half-erased initials M. J. - than glass shoes for a young athlete. Like most people on the planet, Calvin comes up with an obvious candidate for the role of the owners of used basketball shoes with such letters - Michael Jordan. Believing that the shoes of an idol are a sign of fate, Calvin in miracle sneakers begins to almost fly. Now the guy easily jumps a meter high and throws one ball after another - here it is, the fantastic power of faith in yourself and devotion to a dream.
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Coach Carter (2005, USA, Germany)
Director: Thomas Carter Screenplay: Mark Schwan (One Tree Hill), David Gatins (Real Steel) Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Rob Brown Robert Richard, Channing Tatum KinoSearch: 8 IMDb: 7.3
A film that lists about basketball rarely do without, and tops of movies about sports in general. Not without "Coach Carter" and the top 250 "KinoPoisk": Ken Carter's neighbors are cutie Totoro and "American Beauty".
Ken Carter is not a fictional character. In 1997, the coach brought the Richmond school team to a very high level: the guys won one victory after another, the school management and parents were delighted. And during the chain of convincing victories, coach Carter closed the hall to his young stars. The team missed several games, management and parents changed their enthusiasm to outrage, but the coach kept the doors closed. Carter set a condition for the wards: until each member of the team pulls up his average score in all subjects, there will be no basketball. As a result, all the guys from the team were able to graduate from school - this is a great achievement for the guys of Richmond 90's. By the way, the real Ken Carter himself chose Samuel L. Jackson for the role and was very pleased with the performance of the actor.
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In 2020, another film about a school coach was released - Outside the Game. The main character (Ben Affleck) was the coolest guy in school, played basketball well and broke opponents like Bane's spines. But then he drank himself and destroyed everything, and the chance for redemption is the work of a coach in his native school. Affleck's character falls short of Carter in terms of charisma, but it's interesting to look at a familiar story from Gavin O'Connor, who directed Warrior with Tom Hardy and Miracle with Kurt Russell - BadComedian said that the plot of "Moving Up" was copied from this movie . 966th, just two years after the law on the abolition of racial discrimination. And Texas was in no hurry to give up bad habits: in 1966, the latest edition of the Green Book was released, and African Americans still could not live in the same hotels with whites, and it was unthinkable to meet on the same field.
France basketball
That meets are too long and too confusing, with throwing here, and jumping there and running all around and how can anyone be expected to follow it all? Maybe there’s a sliver of truth in all of this. Tastes evolve.
Think of it as Twenty-four Minutes at Hayward. (All times approximate, don’t @ me with your timestamps).
Both are of the generation of U.S. women’s throwers who were recruited into the sport not because they were big, but because they were explosive athletes, with deep backgrounds in multiple sports. “I played every sport except track and field,” said Kassanavoid. Andersen was a 135-pound soccer player who idolized Mia Hamm. “I didn’t lift a weight until college,” she said. Now she weighs 185lbs and has retained her quickness and agility in the circle. But the life of a thrower has obstacles: Not long ago, Andersen trained while working a total of 60 hours at GNC and Chipotle, and she still snags hours behind the counter at the latter. But she also recently signed a contract with Nike, nudging toward full professional status.
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“I expected that from Joe,” said Crouser, “because he has such a potential for big throws.”
S. singlet and blue tights.
Allen’s reaction time was .099 seconds, meaning that he was disqualified for reacting one one-thousandth of a second too quickly. (His reaction time in the semifinal was .101 seconds, safe by two one-thousandths of a second).
Holloway is surprised but not shocked by Allen’s fate and the general state of chaos prevailing: “I’m on Devon’s side; I don’t think he false-started,” Holloway says. “But it’s athletics and, pardon my language, shit happens.”
(A false start in the women’s 100-meter semifinals also looked very iffy). On the other hand, there has to be a false start rule of some kind. Older versions, in which a runner was disqualified for two false starts, led to long delays and runners throwing flyers indiscriminately. More to the point, there was no solution available in the moment. You can’t just give the batter four strikes on the spot because three is a bad rule (or because he’s popular). But it was a downer in the building.
Crouser’s last throw – “I just swung for the fences,” he said – is a foul. The bronze medal goes to 27-year-old American Josh Awotunde, who recovered from a spring pectoral strain, spent time living with Crouser and under his wing, and threw an 11-inch personal best on his first throw. It was the first 1-2-3 shot put sweep in Worlds history and followed up the U.S. sweep in the men’s 100 meters Saturday night. There would be one more, not by Americans.
67 seconds, a world championship record. She won Olympic 100-meter gold medals in 2008 and 2012 (along with a bronze in Rio in 2016 and a silver behind Elaine Thompson-Herah last year in Tokyo) and has won the 100 meters at five of the last seven worlds. She is the only woman to break 10.70 seconds five times (Thompson-Herah has done it four times; Flo-Jo did it three times). There is little doubt Fraser-Pryce is the best female sprinter in history and quite possibly the best in all events. It’s a worthy discussion.
Seven more days remain.
Bolt has been gone for half a decade; his last races were at the 2017 World Championships, and they were not pretty. Two years later, Christian Coleman of the U.S. took the world title, decisively, in 9.76 seconds. He was a short, explosive sprinter in mold of 2000 Olympic gold medalist Maurice Greene, and he was just 23 years old. There was much promise. But subsequently Coleman got sideways with the doping police (three whereabouts failures, meaning he did not test positive but missed too many tests), was suspended for two years, and missed the 2021 Olympics. (He is back, but keep reading).
Track was left still searching – turning over rocks in the wood, to find only moss and mud.
“They communicate all the time,” says Simms. “Usain has really been a great mentor to Fred.”)
It did. Kerley threw both hands into the air, and a meet worker draped his gold medal around his neck. And then Kerley snagged the medal from around his neck and alighted on a delirious victory lap, slapping hands with front-row spectators and waving his arms while the medal’s cloth lanyard dangled toward the ground. It seemed his lap was nearly in the 43-second range that he had once run, and the display was, dare we say, Bolt-esque.
“Tears of joy,” he said. “First medal in seven years. So yeah, tears of joy.” As to racing in lane eight, Bromell said, “Not to throw shade, but I wish I had been next to those guys. I might have timed my lean a little differently.” That sounded like shade. “Nah,” said Bromell. “Those are my guys.”
A year ago, he ran 9.78 and finished third at the Olympic Trials and took a silver medal (beyond Jacobs) in the Gamers. His transition was complete.
France is the only team to have beaten the USA during the tournament so far, during the opening game of the preliminary round.
However, the only dedicated live broadcast and stream of the game is exclusive to Peacock Premium, which does not currently offer a free trial.
Cox and Infinity cable customers can also access Peacock on their set top boxes.
Several left-wing people left the staff of commentators, who not only abused support, but also spoiled the organics of the broadcasts. This is no longer possible to meet in the expanses of aanba during the last season. This is all the more so." 
And it is not very clear how you can recoup the night spot on paid subscriptions. If suddenly such a topic is revived in Russia, then we would be happy to fly into it. The idea of "pirates" in the eyes of the public is slightly different from what is happening now. We ourselves used to sin with amateur comments with a share of peppercorns, but current trends have forced us to reconsider our position. In order not to lose the audience, we left something of our former self, the ability to communicate with a chat, for example, and significantly added in the technical aspect, focusing on immersion in the sport.” 
We follow the US principle. There is national television, there is local television, but a lot of time people spend on online platforms where they buy subscriptions and enjoy life: TNT and ESPN. This is more convenient than when you turn on the channel and they impose on you the match that you are watching. In Russia, it all develops thanks to ideological people who promote themselves. Will it get more financial support? Not sure. But as for the people who are interested, I think yes. For example, we basically do not work with bookmakers, we believe that if a person wants to support, then he does not need to buy a subscription, he can directly support the commentator and the studio. It seems to me that now it is a good platform to give content. Not only in the form of matches, but also in podcasts, documentaries and articles.” 
After television broadcasts, the style of commenting on the Internet can be very embarrassing or at least seem unusual - especially when users' opinions and questions are counted right during basketball, the roll call of cities begins or donations are counted. One of the foreign coaches of the VTB League looked at the Wild Sport match of his national team and remained at a loss: “Five facts were mentioned - and all five are wrong.” 
And in the outwardly happy, harmonious story, a whole minefield of dramas is scattered. Monica and Quincy devoted themselves to the game: they played in school, played in college, and also played after college. Only now, in the excitement and frenzied energy of the site, the guys began to forget that the rest of life is not a game. There is no arbiter here who will immediately notice the violation, and retribution for mistakes is not a card, but the loss of loved ones, loneliness, and sometimes someone's broken destinies. 
In order to take his mind off these depressing thoughts a little, Michael drives his wife into depression and constantly mentally returns to his school years, to the day when he chose a family, and not a college with an athletic scholarship. When Mike was seventeen, his girlfriend became pregnant, and the star of the school basketball team, a dream boy with a bright future, gave up everything to stay with his lover and raise a child. Adult act of an adult man. But twenty years later, the supply of nobility and love in Mike's soul ended, and the hero turned into a capricious Dementor, pulling out all the good things from his loved ones. A karmic lesson is needed here, and the universe hurries to the hero with a magical cuff. Mike suddenly turns into a seventeen-year-old guy and becomes a classmate of his own son, goes to his own school and shines again on the basketball court. The coach adores him, schoolgirls drop textbooks at the mere sight of him, a sports career in basketball shines ahead again - but all this does not mean anything anymore, because there will not be the same one nearby.
Mike needs to understand himself, help his children during a difficult school period and return to his beloved wife as soon as possible. 
The subject of the deal - Jesus, as the most visible and talented player in the city, must go to the right university to bring the local basketball team out of shameful oblivion. Jake is released from behind bars for a few days, but it is hardly possible to regain his son's trust so quickly after the murder of his mother. 
But instead, a talented man works as a school watchman: a gray reality without hopes and prospects is an excellent hiding place from feelings of guilt. Several years ago, Tom's friend died, and Shepard could never forgive himself for this. Now Tom takes the ball in his hands only at night and alone fights an invisible enemy. One of these workouts is noticed by the main character, high school student Kyle Watson. The guy plays brilliantly, but his temper and aggressiveness prevent Watson from getting an athletic scholarship at a prestigious college. But these qualities do not prevent Kyle from joining the criminal gang: the talented game of the schoolboy was noted by Ptah, the leader of the most influential gang in the area. Kyle finds it hard to resist the temptations: Bird knows what it's like to live in a poor neighborhood with a single mother, and offers Watson gifts for loyalty. Security guard Tom Shepard understands that Watson needs help, and the man will finally stop running from life and is trying to pull Kyle off the streets.
Billy carries all dishonestly earned banknotes into a three-liter piggy bank to pay off debts. Gloria, Billy's girlfriend, who dreams of a cozy home without any criminal sports, puts all her savings there. The only problem is, Billy and Gloria live in dreams of different rings, but it will not be clear soon. In the meantime, Sidney bursts into Billy's life - one of the skeptics, who at first did not recognize Billy as a serious player, and then realized that it was easier and more fun to monetize white stereotypes together. This is how an on-screen duo appeared, capable of pulling out both a hackneyed script and a two-hour timekeeping. 6.4 
Now the guy easily jumps a meter high and throws one ball after another - here it is, the fantastic power of faith in yourself and devotion to a dream. 
Jackson, Rob Brown Robert Richard, Channing Tatum 
By the way, the real Ken Carter himself chose Samuel L. Jackson for the role and was very pleased with the performance of the actor. 
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