From Space Jam to He Got Game, basketball movies have varied from goofy to gloomy. Both the biggest athletes like Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal, and the biggest actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Ferrell want to be play a basketball star on the silver screen. But what is the best basketball movie of all time? What are the top five worst?
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