
God, it's been how many years since Space Jam, and some people are still under the assumption that sports stars are good actors? It's not just Lorne Michaels and his poor casting choices for season premieres: during NBA games, players will screech and holler every time someone so much as touches them, hoping to get a foul call.
"It's just a part of the game to try and get the call," he said. "You are trying to sell what you're doing. When you go to the hole and you think you're getting hit, the first thing you do is flail or yell. And sometimes they get the call and sometimes they don't."
And while it doesn't seem to dangerous to let grown men scream like a banshee every time they get near the basket, it is certainly hurting our Hollywood standards.
How else can explain the terrible theatrics of Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, and um, Dennis Rodman? Luckily the trend of basketball players taking their act in front of the movie camera seems to have died off somewhere in the mid-90s, but you can never be too careful: let's all send in petition letters to sketch comedy show producers and directors of action movies. We don't need another Eddie.
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