The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Make a sequel; Shelton could make it great; Ricky’s imagined future
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- Blue Chips 2 should have happened, either continuing Butch and Neon in the late 1990s or making Butch a coach in the late 2000s.
- A present-day sequel with the former players hosting a podcast is proposed, with Tommy Alter imagined as Tony.
- Ricky’s constant sexual preoccupation inspires a deliberately crude hypothetical about increasingly adventurous behavior after a knee injury.
- Ron Shelton directing could have made the good Friedkin film an all-time great basketball movie by adding fun and removing the self-righteous tone.