Always wondered with that streetbasket player who plays Patton in 1-1.
If he was good enough to "push" the star of a championship team, shouldnt he be able to get some kind of contract with the NBA?
Maybe something like "Timberwolves" or "Nuggets" :D
It was Gary Payton, playing the 1 on 1 game. Payton was a great NBA player. He played for 17 seasons on 5 different teams... The Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks, L.A. Lakers, Boston Celtics, and Miami Heat.
Malik Sealy who play Stacy Patton was a player on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Sadly, he died in a car crash in 2000, when still playing in the NBA.
Many players you see in the movie are real players from the NBA. I could tell you more, but I haven't seen the movie in about 2 years.
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Okay, thanks.
But isnt he supposed to play some random street-player? Whoopi or Eddie or whats her name, should have thought: "Wow he is almost as good as my star-player, i'll draft him to the team".
HEY!! Careful I AM a TimberWolves fan!! Maybe one of the last ones, Hell I'd love Whoopi to be our coach now... And I'd LOVE GP on our team! Even now!!
RIP Malik.
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I didn't realize Malik Sealy died in 2000. You probably know that Wayman Tisdale died in May. Man, I wonder who else from this movie.
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Yes, he was supposed to play some random street player, and that was the role Gary Payton was playing, he wasn't playing himself. Among other players in that sequence were REAL-life New York Knicks John Starks, Anthony Mason and Herb Williams. The only team in this movie that didn't have an accurate roster was the Knicks, although most of the mebers of the team were real NBA players including Malik Sealy, Mark Jackson, John Salley, Greg Ostertag, Dwayne Schintzius and Rick Fox but not Vernel Singleton. I checked NBA.com's historical player search, and no one by that name ever played in the NBA.
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Vernel Singleton played in college for LSU with Shaquille O'Neal, but wasn't drafted into the NBA.
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But isnt he supposed to play some random street-player? Whoopi or Eddie or whats her name, should have thought: "Wow he is almost as good as my star-player, i'll draft him to the team".
And that was probably a bit of an inside joke, as Gary Payton was one of the best defensive players in his prime-his nickname was "The Glove"
shareYou know, I've seen this movie a lot and I've never thought of "push" the way you described it. I always thought Patton meant "pushed" like Gary Payton (the street baller) pushed him as in made him upset enough or got him riled up enough to play 1 on 1. I think I'll have to go and watch the movie again for the 147th time.
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