My love for this topic is as unmatched as it is undiscussed. “Like Mike” is my favorite movie, and thank Jehovah since I’m a 20-year-old straight female who’s dating life is going JUST FINE MOM. SO mesmerizing that it transports my 10-year-old heart and all of its passions somewhere else and leaves it there for six recreational basketball years of equally aggressive bricks and picks. The radio edit of Nas’s “Rule” backdrops the whole thing with something mesmerizing. It’s beautiful, but for more than the standard “ball is life” reason. The difference between isosceles and equilateral is mapped out to be a press play, as the two bond further into an orange paint fight, which comes off as a ploy by Nickelodeon-but I’ll digress for fear of getting too emotional. Surely enough, Calvin understands. Reynolds paints triangles on the exterior walls of his home because, well, he is in fact 2002’s greatest cinematic father figure. So the two head outside for a math lesson. On top of getting framed by basketball adults and being sold off to prodigy-hungry adoptive parents, the little guy’s got a geometry test tomorrow, and basketball is the only answer. Kid protagonist Calvin Cambridge sits across from his hero and teammate, Tracy Reynolds. Everything the NBA touches is our kingdom.” It’s just a game room with exceptionally long tables, but an oceanic view through a near completely glass wall screams in shot-clock quality:
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