If you want the "dark gritty raw truths" of basketball movies, this episode is for you. As Team USA battles it out in China, ESPN's Eddie Maisonet III (@edthesportsfan) joins us to determine the best basketball movies of all time, the first made in America sport we are tackling in our year long sports movie marathon.


You can check here to see the winners to date in the sports movie marathon, plus explore all the rankings we aggregated to seed the basketball movies.  


The outre song is Kurtis Blow's 1984 "Basketball."




If you enjoyed this episode, check out our previous episodes:


1. Sports Movies Bracket #2 - Golf and Tennis (feat. guest Chris Nashawaty)


2. July Movies, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and the Best Films about Hollywood


3. Sports Movies Bracket #1 - Soccer and Hockey (feat. guest Lee Jutton)


4. Deep Dive: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar


5. June Movies, Toy Story 4 and Movies From Childhood


6. May Movies, Booksmart and Malta Movies


7. April Movies, Avengers: Endgame and MCU Ranking


8. March Movies, High Flying Bird and Us

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