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Above the Rim

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Montrose’s story would be better; best basketball movie; Big East turning point

In the discussion (3)
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  • The better player Montrose could anchor a more interesting film about a white New York hooper navigating basketball and a racist home community; this is an imagined story, not supplied film backstory. — Wosny Lambre
  • The opening best-basketball-movie claim is repeated as another hot take.
  • The Georgetown ending is called the beginning of the Big East’s decline; later Syracuse/UConn success is a counterargument, while losing recruits like Marbury illustrates the claim.