Regardless, the past is all over Like Mike. Perhaps he was busy training for his ill-advised comeback with the Wizards or just looking for his magical shoes. Along the way he jukes a roster of Hall of Famers, including, in addition to the aforementioned, Tracy McGrady, David Robinson, Chris Webber, Gary Payton, Jason Kidd, Alonzo Mourning and Dirk Nowitzki (who is hands-down the best player cameo). Calvin promptly slays him and the basketball Cinderella story ensues. Knights’ (not sure why the Lakers or Clippers couldn’t be used) star Tracy Reynolds (played by Morris Chestnut). Both he and the shoes get zapped, leading to a Spider-Man-like origin story, except the shoes are imbued with magical ability that gives the wearer the ability to crossover like Allen Iverson, dunk like Vince Carter and shoot like Steve Nash (all three players make cameo appearances).Ĭalvin is discovered at a game during an in-game promotional one-on-one game vs. After a jealous bully tosses the shoes onto a telephone wire, Calvin retrieves them during a late-night thunderstorm. In Like Mike, co-produced by NBA Entertainment, hoops-loving Los Angeles orphan Calvin Cambridge (Lil’ Bow Wow, now Shad Moss) grabs a pair of Jordan’s (we assume, since the inside of the shoes has the initials “M.J.”) old Nikes (Carolina blue of course). What got me aboard this sputtering train of mortality-infused thought? A 2002 family movie starring a boy rapper, one of the girls from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (Brenda Song), and Jerry Maguire‘s Jonathan Lipnicki. To paraphrase Charles de Gaulle, the NBA’s pension list is full of irreplaceable men. In 10 years ask LeBron James, or whenever his bionic body malfunctions. As a teenager in the 1990s, marginalizing Michael Jordan was like dismissing ice cream sundaes or cute girls, a preposterous notion. That’s when it hit me: the narrative of the NBA gallops. He’s got his own shoe that sells everywhere and everybody wears it,” Ben Simmons told Uggetti. These kids missed Jordan’s worldwide reign as narrated by Marv Albert, with Gatorade and John Tesh providing the soundtrack. ĭuring this past season’s All-Star-or the Corporate Cavalcade of Fun-Paolo Uggetti of The Ringer asked players participating in the Rising Stars Game how they knew Michael Jordan. Today brings us Like Mike, the 2002 family comedy that stars Lil Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, a magical pair of Nikes, a parade of NBA legends, and the kid from Jerry Maguire. For the remainder of the summer, each week we will take a deeper look at a basketball movie.
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