Sports Films Ranked - Basketball

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.

In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

A 13-year-old orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with the faded initials "MJ" inside them.

An anti-ageist comedy about a man's dream to win the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem.

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

Two basketball hustlers, black Sidney Deane and white Billy Hoyle, join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts as well as in a tournament.

Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school.

In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.

An ordinary high school student discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree.

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.

A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

An unexpected player joins the school basketball team - a circus dog who escaped from a cruel master.

A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury.

An acclaimed college basketball coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.

A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.

Two over-loyal Celtic fans kidnap their opponent's star player in order to guarantee their team the championship.

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

A basketball coach travels to Africa to recruit a new star.

Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.