Top 10 Best Basketball Movies

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  • Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
  • It's time to go hard in the paint ranking the best basketball movies of all time! For this list, we’ll be looking at the best films that center around basketball, whether they be fictional stories, biopics, or documentaries. Our countdown includes “The Basketball Diaries”, “White Men Can’t Jump”, “He Got Game”, and more! Any favorite basketball flicks we missed the layup on? Let us know in the comments down below.
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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  2 года назад +34

    Stay tuned until the end for bloopers!
    Any favorite basketball flicks we missed the layup on? Let us know in the comments down below.
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  • @RetroJ77
    @RetroJ77 Год назад +49

    Not only Space Jam was a great basketball movie, but the soundtrack was awesome. Still listen to it to this day.

  • @chelseacanales8763
    @chelseacanales8763 Год назад +52

    Coach Carter is Samuel best work. That movie is so good and make you feel all kinds of emotions

    • @artfire28
      @artfire28 Год назад +2

      It taught me that winning in life is way more important than winning just some few games. Didn't even know Channing Tatum was casted before becoming big.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 Год назад +1

      @@artfire28 yes

  • @olivabuckhanon1228
    @olivabuckhanon1228 Год назад +63

    Space jam and coach carter are the outstanding basketball movies of all time🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @ead630
    @ead630 Год назад +29

    Hoop Dreams should be on any shortlist of the greatest movies of all time. It is just incredible.
    Ebert named it the best movie of the 1990s, ahead of Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas.

  • @Sjtbk23
    @Sjtbk23 Год назад +19

    Sunset Park and Blue Chips are criminally underrated. A bit of a tough list to crack, but they deserve their credit.

    • @onshaqnem
      @onshaqnem Год назад +3

      Sunset park was different 🤝

    • @iLLWiLL510
      @iLLWiLL510 Год назад +3

      Sunset Park soundtrack was 🔥

  • @ricodawes
    @ricodawes Год назад +24

    Great movies all, but Sunset Park also deserves honorable mention. Totally underrated

    • @EvaFull
      @EvaFull Год назад +3

      Was hoping someone would mention that underrated 💎. I remember going to see that opening night with a neighborhood friend. It’s one I hope to find on DVD one day for a decent price.

    • @TDH24Live
      @TDH24Live Год назад +4

      I don't know why watchmojo doesn't do honorable mentions like they used to.

    • @renecarteir8092
      @renecarteir8092 Год назад +2

      Very good call out! That should be on there over Basketball Diaries

    • @EvaFull
      @EvaFull Год назад +3

      @@renecarteir8092 The Basketball Diaries definitely deserves its place on the list. That’s another ‘90’s classic that doesn’t get enough love. Especially when you consider the cast & where they were at that point in their careers.

    • @renecarteir8092
      @renecarteir8092 Год назад +2

      @@EvaFull in not saying it's a bad movie, but in terms of basketball movies/documentaries, the likes of Sunset Park, Blue Chips, The Last Dance should all definitely be higher than basketball diaries

  • @GoatAmv
    @GoatAmv Год назад +20

    Remember: There is no crying in baseball, but sometimes, there is crying in baseball movies.
    Bull Durham (1988)
    A League of Their Own (1992) ...
    The Pride of the Yankees (1942) ...
    Field of Dreams (1989) ...
    Eight Men Out (1988) ...
    Moneyball (2011) ...
    The Natural (1984) ...
    The Sandlot (1993)

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Год назад +11

    “Your whole basketball career turned wack, when you came back a wizard like Gandalf the Black.” Muhammad Ali

  • @madman00774
    @madman00774 Год назад +23

    The Basketball Diaries was such an underrated movie that accurately portraits addiction and its consequences. Leo deserved that Oscar!

    • @EvaFull
      @EvaFull Год назад +2

      My favorite movie of his ever since discovering it on Cinemax one day in the mid ‘90’s.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 Год назад +2

      It was very good, but Leo was slighted that year

  • @treypyle4565
    @treypyle4565 Год назад +14

    Semi-pro is obviously the best basketball movie of all time! Historically accurate, very technical on the basketball side. It's a shame it didn't get its spotlight here.

  • @KobeKid248
    @KobeKid248 Год назад +7

    Hoop Dreams is a classic sports documentary, love watching it!

  • @wendyodell356
    @wendyodell356 Год назад +6

    It's one of my top 5 all-time favorite movies, "Love and Basketball". I love it 🏀❤️😍

  • @16lucylover
    @16lucylover Год назад +8

    Theres also good ones based on true stories one called Hurricane Season with Forest Whitaker which about a team from New Orleans who won the championship after Hurricane Katrina. The other one is called Rise which is about the Nigerian Greek brothers who got drafted into the NBA in the states.

  • @tank100286
    @tank100286 Год назад +5

    My top 11 basketball movies of all time:
    1."He got game"
    2."White men can't jump"
    3."Above the rim"
    4. Love & basketball
    5. COACH Carter
    6. Sunset park
    7. Space jam
    8. The Sixth man
    9. Eddie
    10.Juwanna Mann
    11. Celtics Pride

    • @jdarb2
      @jdarb2 11 месяцев назад

      Except for The Sixth Man, Juwanna Mann, and Celtic's Pride this is way closer to my list

  • @nyllabrasileiro7044
    @nyllabrasileiro7044 Год назад +2

    Very good narrator. Smooth voice.loved it.

  • @jesterjosie3281
    @jesterjosie3281 Год назад +9

    Space Jam and Uncle Drew are my favorites

  • @RomaroBrandon
    @RomaroBrandon Год назад +11

    Honorable Mentions: Space Jam, Like Mike, and Juwanna Mann

    • @AB90NH
      @AB90NH Год назад +1

      Rise and Uncle Drew

  • @gipdef10
    @gipdef10 Год назад +2

    10. Space Jam
    9. Blue Chips
    8. The Basketball Diaries
    7. White Men Can't Jump
    6. Love and Basketball
    5. Semi-Pro
    4. He Got Game
    3. Hoosiers
    2. Uncut Gems
    1. Hoop Dreams

  • @rig-zag
    @rig-zag Год назад +4

    Hustle deserves to be mentioned. Also:
    Blue Chips. The Air up There. Uncle Drew. But Above the Rim and White Men Can't Jump will always be my favorites.

  • @MusicManT86
    @MusicManT86 Год назад +1

    "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" with Dr J. Julius Erving should have made this list, but I guess you would have to grow up in the 70s's to remember this movie!!! It was the first of basketball movies to cast an NBA player in the lead role. I'm also surprised that "Blue Chips" didn't make the list as either!!!

  • @wshippen81
    @wshippen81 Год назад +5

    Always loved Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault

    • @artfire28
      @artfire28 Год назад +1

      That film was heartbreaking. Earl should had been better than MJ but I was glad he turned his life around. Don Cheadle portrayed him so well.

  • @justinwilliams4074
    @justinwilliams4074 Год назад +7

    Sunset Park wasn't known very well but it was an amazing basketball movie.

    • @LukeIsyourfasha
      @LukeIsyourfasha Год назад

      It’s time to get live! It’s time to represent!

  • @mrmojomajestic8317
    @mrmojomajestic8317 Год назад +4

    _Blue Chips_ should definitely be on this list.
    *HONOURABLE MENTION:*
    Hardly a "basketball movie" per say, but definitely had a big list of actual NBA players ... _Forget Paris_

    • @EvaFull
      @EvaFull Год назад +1

      Was kinda shocked it didn’t get an honorable mention

    • @mrmojomajestic8317
      @mrmojomajestic8317 Год назад

      @@EvaFull
      Blue Chips or Forget Paris ?

    • @EvaFull
      @EvaFull Год назад +1

      @@mrmojomajestic8317 Blue Chips

  • @dshiznit40
    @dshiznit40 Год назад +4

    The Way Back is a slept on basketball flick

  • @pabloruiz6224
    @pabloruiz6224 Год назад +2

    My childhood basketball movies were Air Bud, Space Jam, and Like Mike. And my teen years, I watch Uncle Drew. Four of my favorite basketball movies in my opinion.

  • @yadielenielbellecolon982
    @yadielenielbellecolon982 Год назад +1

    Thank For The Video about Basketball Movie🏀🥇📺📼🏅🏆

  • @justinwilliams4074
    @justinwilliams4074 Год назад +2

    Oh and there was that movie that had Nick Nolte in it as a coach, I think it was called Blue Chips? The movie The Air Up There was my favorite as a kid.

  • @postmastersgt1670
    @postmastersgt1670 Год назад +1

    Top 🏀films alltime
    1. White Men Cant Jump
    2. He Got Game
    3. Above The Rim
    4. Love & Basketball
    5. Hoosiers
    6. Space Jam
    7. Coach Carter
    8. Air Bud
    9. Glory Road
    10. Like Mike

  • @kaylagaymon4873
    @kaylagaymon4873 Год назад +5

    Space Jam, Just Wright and Uncle Drew are the best basketball movies I love to watch
    🏀🏀🏀🔥🔥🔥💗💗💗

  • @renecarteir8092
    @renecarteir8092 Год назад +2

    Celtic Pride and Eddie. Knew these movies wouldn't be on this list but both are great basketball movies!

  • @kingbernas
    @kingbernas Год назад +4

    Honorable mention for "One On One" with Robbie Benson and Annette O'Toole c. 1977

  • @perrythomas6971
    @perrythomas6971 Год назад +5

    How the hell do you not have Blue Chips on this list? This should definitely be top 5. You are Sus😂

  • @tyriqrevada7726
    @tyriqrevada7726 Год назад +4

    He got game is a classic

  • @NTGNickGreer
    @NTGNickGreer Год назад +1

    I don't know why but I don't really watch sports but I like watching movies about sports. Coach Carter and 42 are the one of the best sports movies I've seen

  • @jamaalsimmons8814
    @jamaalsimmons8814 Год назад +2

    People sleep on Finding Forrester, a long time favorite of mine. Personally, I would've liked to see The 6th Man on this list.

  • @vion3009
    @vion3009 Год назад +3

    I wish y'all included "The Air up There"

  • @jdarb2
    @jdarb2 11 месяцев назад

    Nice list, but I'd argue some of the placement, there's a few honorable mentions I would've thrown in also.

  • @williamsummerson1204
    @williamsummerson1204 Год назад +1

    My personal favorites
    1. He got game
    2. Hoop Dreams
    3. Above the rim
    4. Space Jam. 1996
    5. Blue Chips
    6. Hoosiers
    7. White men can't jump
    8. Coach Carter
    9. Love and Basketball
    10. Glory Road

  • @lew8450
    @lew8450 Год назад +1

    Blue chips is another good basketball movie... And white men cant jump should of been higher on the list... It is such a great movie... I cant believe they are remaking it...

  • @camaronshoultz6137
    @camaronshoultz6137 Год назад +2

    Blue Chips should be on this list. And Hoosiers is the best basketball movie ever made and one of the best sports movies ever

  • @leatherface964
    @leatherface964 Год назад +2

    White Men Can't Jump is ranked too low. He Got Game is brilliant 🔥🔥🔥🔥 For a second, I think Teen Wolf was gonna make it. I was about to say 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @GamerFunOriginallyAarush
    @GamerFunOriginallyAarush Год назад +2

    Amazing!

  • @deeakayourfavoritealbinota7677

    Sunset Park!! My favorite. Plus Sixth Man!! Dope list still. Can’t forget Celtic Pride and Eddie

  • @cocacoda
    @cocacoda Год назад +1

    Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault
    👍👍

  • @Nikolai601
    @Nikolai601 11 месяцев назад

    Coach Carter, Space Jam (1996), White Men Can't Jump and The First Slam Dunk are the best sports movies I've ever watched

  • @EvaFull
    @EvaFull Год назад +3

    Hoop Dreams Still The King 👑
    A Must Watch Film if any interest at all in Basketball 🏀

  • @therealangelosettler
    @therealangelosettler Год назад +12

    The sixth man is one of my favorites

  • @thedarkcriminal1658
    @thedarkcriminal1658 Год назад +3

    Coach Carter had poor Cruz do so many suicides, he might never go home again.

    • @artfire28
      @artfire28 Год назад +1

      I think Cruz was the most developed character on that film.

    • @thedarkcriminal1658
      @thedarkcriminal1658 Год назад +2

      @@artfire28 Yeah he was an angry, confused kid.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 Год назад

      @@thedarkcriminal1658 he had tragic childhood

  • @jeremiaheggleston7086
    @jeremiaheggleston7086 Год назад +1

    Hurricane Season, Like Mike, Just Wright, Uncle Drew🏀 should be on the list.

  • @andreleite1019
    @andreleite1019 Год назад +1

    "Survive and Advance" and "Once Brothers" would be my honorable mentions.

  • @denisejones6480
    @denisejones6480 Год назад +2

    Where's " The Fish that saved Pittsburgh ". I loved that weird and lovable movie!!

    • @MusicManT86
      @MusicManT86 Год назад

      YESSS!!!!!! Dr J was the first!!!

  • @MarkusMaack
    @MarkusMaack Год назад +12

    No Space Jam?

  • @gregmeyer9595
    @gregmeyer9595 Год назад

    Glad to see Hoosiers so high on this list, great film… the fundamentals of basketball in this movie are beautiful.

  • @LTProductions335
    @LTProductions335 Год назад +1

    The way back, should of been here. It's so good.

  • @jaygabbana6852
    @jaygabbana6852 Год назад +5

    As long as He Got Game is on the list I’m satisfied, Hustle on Netflix is also phenomenal

  • @jonbourgoin182
    @jonbourgoin182 Год назад +2

    White Men Can't Jump is a given but Blue Chips and The 6th Man better be on here somewhere.

  • @elliottkolker4321
    @elliottkolker4321 Год назад +2

    "Fast Break," starring Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back...), Mike Warren and a surprisingly good Bernard King is worthy of an honorable mention. Its contemporary, "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh," with Jonathan Winter, Flip Wilson, Meadowlark Lemon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a terribly disappointing Dr. J, deserves its oneway ticket to Hoopsville.

    • @MusicManT86
      @MusicManT86 Год назад

      Finally!!!!! Someone mentioned The Fish....Although a comedy it was a pretty good movie with a great soundtrack.

  • @YesImJoeKing
    @YesImJoeKing Год назад +1

    You are damn right coach Carter is on this list

  • @Billy-ot8mk
    @Billy-ot8mk Год назад +2

    Loved Glory Road.

  • @jacobdrolet4262
    @jacobdrolet4262 Год назад

    Amazing video watch mojo of basketball 🏀 movies,fantastic job.

  • @nzarate
    @nzarate Год назад

    The Air Up There , is one of my favorite Basketball Movies to watch

  • @kaden1199
    @kaden1199 3 месяца назад

    1. Rebound “legend of earl manigualt”
    2. Glory road
    3. Coach Carter
    4. Blue chips
    5. Juwana man
    6. Like mike
    7. Space jam
    8. Uncle drew

  • @gregorynetus5557
    @gregorynetus5557 Год назад +5

    Sunset park is another amazing movie.fredro star from one of the best groups ever in onyx did his thing.word up son

    • @EvaFull
      @EvaFull Год назад +2

      Have loved that underrated gem ever since I saw it on opening night at my local theater with a friend.

    • @gregorynetus5557
      @gregorynetus5557 Год назад +2

      @@EvaFull its a amazing movie.1996.the 1990s is a legendary decades.the last excellent decades.word up son

  • @thelashaunlove
    @thelashaunlove Год назад

    Disappointed to not see Sunset Park on here but I'm happy af Hoop Dreams is at #1. Can't say how many times I've watched it.

  • @michaelnoel9998
    @michaelnoel9998 Год назад +5

    The fact that Space Jam doesn't even get an honorable mention is a travesty

  • @evanblack8642
    @evanblack8642 Год назад

    Maybe do a whole WatchMojo gag reel video at some point? OR a gag reel countdown?

  • @WildSkateboarder
    @WildSkateboarder Год назад +1

    My favourite basketball movie as a kid was Like Mike!

  • @wobblertv8083
    @wobblertv8083 Год назад +1

    Ray Allen sunk one of the most iconic shots in NBA history .

  • @RomnysGonzalez
    @RomnysGonzalez Год назад +1

    They forgot to put the goated. The best basketball film of all times. The one that changed the NBA and the history of humanity.
    CROSSOVER another one of the goates. Juawanna Mann

    • @CButler4223
      @CButler4223 Год назад

      Don't forget "like Mike"

    • @artfire28
      @artfire28 Год назад

      Juwanna Mann was a cautionary tale of what if Britney Griner is actually a dude.

  • @gregdean27
    @gregdean27 Год назад +1

    This is a list I’m not a fan of missing two of my favorite basketball movies.
    You should’ve at least had some honorable mentions.
    He can you not even mention FastBreak,The Fish that saved Pittsburgh or Cornbread,Earl and me.

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Год назад +1

    “You need to bounce back to North Carolina kid. Cause your rapping sucks more than Space Jam did!” Muhammad Ali

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Год назад +5

    “Ooh here comes Jordan. Big time wobbling, flying through the air like a big dumb goblin.” Muhammad Ali

    • @chellab6944
      @chellab6944 Год назад

      I thought that was @ERB!!🤔🤔🤔

  • @LeGrooveDuGhetto
    @LeGrooveDuGhetto 11 месяцев назад

    Mon Top 5
    - Les Blancs ne savent pas sauter
    - Above the rim
    - Blue Chips
    - He Got Game
    - Coach Carter

  • @gustavoloureiro114
    @gustavoloureiro114 5 месяцев назад +1

    Coach carter #1

    • @kaden1199
      @kaden1199 3 месяца назад

      I think glory road and then coach cater second. But coach cater should def be up there

  • @eugeniapatroncosta920
    @eugeniapatroncosta920 Год назад +1

    Make a top 10 best Tommy Lee Jones movies, please.

  • @raveneljohnson3052
    @raveneljohnson3052 Год назад

    I like y'all countdown , but in my opinion would be a lil' different. But all the choices are good, after seeing Hoop Dreams on there. I will say I wanted to have the chance to the chance to be them, Mr. Agee, Mr. Gates.

  • @MusicManT86
    @MusicManT86 Год назад

    Michael Jordan did Space Jam because of seeing Julius Erving aka Dr J in the "Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" and Jamal Wilkes in "Cornbread Earl and Me".

  • @corymorimacori1059
    @corymorimacori1059 Год назад +3

    Other great basketball movies: Space Jam

  • @CelebrityGamerTV
    @CelebrityGamerTV Год назад +1

    Like Mike is my favorite basketball movie!

  • @ajspooner8485
    @ajspooner8485 Год назад

    glory road will always be my favorite basketball movie❤

  • @SulliMike23
    @SulliMike23 Год назад +1

    I'm surprised Air Bud and Space Jam aren't on this list.

  • @Majesticon
    @Majesticon Год назад

    High Flying Bird should have made it, it's a serious great, tense and beautifully made film

  • @derrickrobbins8100
    @derrickrobbins8100 Год назад

    The movie "Believe In Me" should have gotten some love and recognition

  • @micahcaraballo5917
    @micahcaraballo5917 Год назад

    Everyone raise your thumb if you thought Space Jam was gonna be on this list and ended up disappointed that it wasn’t! 😭

  • @clavisolemgbe4124
    @clavisolemgbe4124 Год назад +1

    Space jam and like Mike the best movies ever ❤❤❤❤❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @mreincome
    @mreincome Год назад

    Yall had me until Hoosiers popped up and u gotta have Blue Chips this one od y'all best list though

  • @msoi215
    @msoi215 Год назад

    I can't even watch Love & Basketball without feeling some type of way

  • @shogunn2517
    @shogunn2517 Год назад

    No "Heaven Is A Playground", no "Rebound: The Story of Earl Manigault", no "Cornbread Earl and Me" but thankfully they made the right decision by not putting Teen Wolf on here.

  • @ryanperez1999
    @ryanperez1999 Год назад +1

    Space Jam is the highest grossing basketball movie of all time and it didn't even get mentioned? That's wrong. It stars Michael Jordan for crying out loud. No mention for Like Mike either? Again. So wrong.

  • @the_mike_essen_show2484
    @the_mike_essen_show2484 Год назад

    I definitely agree with Hoop Dreams as #1

  • @olleselin
    @olleselin Год назад +1

    "Space Jam" is nr 1, right?

  • @darrylwilkinson4864
    @darrylwilkinson4864 Год назад +1

    The original Air Bud movie should have also made the list

  • @FelipeRibeiro-ex7do
    @FelipeRibeiro-ex7do Месяц назад

    My Favorite is Space Jam (1996) 🏀

  • @DevinPosey20
    @DevinPosey20 Год назад

    Hoop Dreams is a must watch for any young hooper

  • @32roso
    @32roso Год назад

    The 6th man and a 1000 to 1 are the greatest basketball movies of all time

  • @adrienneannells4504
    @adrienneannells4504 Год назад

    May be a little out there but what about Kuroko’ Basketball: the Last Game?

  • @richperez2168
    @richperez2168 Год назад

    This list is meaningless without Blue Chips. Blue Chips is an underrated cult classic from The Exorcist director, William Friedkin that captures the feel of the early 90's with appearances of newcomers Penny Hardaway and Shaq.

  • @mikiaibres6938
    @mikiaibres6938 Год назад +1

    Disappointed Air Bud and Space Jam didn't get an honorable mention

  • @squishymcsquisherson
    @squishymcsquisherson Год назад

    1. Not having Blue Chips and Space Jam invalidates this entire list.
    2. Hoop Dreams, He Got Game and Hoosiers placed well, but WMCJ and Above The Rim should round out the top 5.