Love & Basketball

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1. #001

   In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Sanaa Lathan said her basketball tryouts were terrible because she had never played before. "It was so embarrassing because I literally didn't know how to dribble. I didn't know how to hold the ball. But I'm proud of the way it looks [in the film]. I had no idea I could do it."

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2. #002

   Producer Spike Lee believed the female lead needed believable basketball skills. Gina Prince-Bythewood said in an interview: "I saw over 700 people for this role: actors, actors, people who had never acted a day in their lives. I ended up with Sanaa Lathan and Niesha Butler (a Georgia Tech star and the 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year). I assigned Sanaa to a basketball coach for two months and Niesha to an acting coach."

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3. #003

   The scene in which Monica is pushed and injured was added because Sanaa Lathan has a scar on her cheek in real life.

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4. #004

   Without director Gina Prince-Bythewood's knowledge, leads Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps began dating before filming.

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5. #005

   Alfre Woodard also played Sanaa Lathan's mother in two other films: Something New (2006) and The Family That Preys (2008).

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6. #006

   Gina Prince-Bythewood's script sparked a bidding war after a reading at the Sundance Institute won by Spike Lee's production company 40 Acres and a Mule.

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7. #007

   It was included in Entertainment Weekly's July 16, 2012 list of the 50 Best Movies You've Never Seen.

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8. #008

   It was Gina Prince-Bythewood's directorial debut.

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9. #009

   Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan had appeared together a year earlier in The Wood (1999).

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10. #010

    Monica Calhoun, Regina Hall and Sanaa Lathan also appeared together in The Best Man (1999) and The Best Man Holiday (2013).

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11. #011

    This is the second film in which Omar Epps plays a character named "Quincy" after Juice (1992), which starred Tupac Shakur. There Epps plays "Quincy 'Q' Powell," as opposed to "Quincy 'Q' McCall" in this film.

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12. #012

    Boris Kodjoe and Sanaa Lathan would appear together as a couple (briefly) two years later in Brown Sugar (2002).

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13. #013

    Six years earlier, Omar Epps and Dennis Haysbert played teammates in Major League II (1994).

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14. #014

    The film is part of spine number 1097 in the Criterion Collection.

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15. #015

    Omar Epps and Regina Hall have connections to Scream 2 (1997). Epps played the boyfriend of Jada Pinkett Smith's character in Scream 2, while Hall played a parody of Pinkett-Smith's character in Scary Movie (2000).

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16. #016

    Fourteen years after this film's premiere, Gabrielle Union (Shawnee) would marry NBA All-Star player Dwyane Wade.

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17. #017

    Film director Gina Prince-Bythewood has a small role in the film as the player who dives for a loose ball with Monica (Sanaa Lathan), a shot that took 15 takes to complete.

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18. #018

    Gabrielle Union and Omar Epps later appeared together again in Almost Christmas (2016).

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19. #019

    It was Erika Ringor's debut.

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