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Be like Mike: LeBron James to star in Fantasy Basketball Camp »

Like former NBA league MVP’s, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Dr. J, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal before him, LeBron James is heading to the big screen to star in a big Hollywood movie. And like MJ in particular, he’s not stretching himself by playing anyone other than…LeBron James. According to Variety, King James will star in “Fantasy Basketball Camp” for Universal Pictures and producer Brian Grazer. The comedy will center on five guys from different backgrounds who attend the LeBron James Adult Basketball Camp. The five fans end up dragging James into their own life issues some which are pretty real and others that are pretty ridiculous (think “Dodgeball” meets “The Hangover”).

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First Official More Than a Game – the LBJ Documentary – Review »

The title More Than a Game is more than a little cliché, and the most basic summary of this documentary’s premise does little to refute that initial impression: the story of five inner city youths who forge something beyond friendship while pursuing their high school hoop dreams. But the journey of the “Fab Five” who made up the core of the St. Vincent-St. Mary basketball team in Akron, Ohio earlier in the decade is not exactly your average sports saga, filled with extraordinary characters and equally extraordinary circumstances that Hollywood could craft no better in any feature script. Any filmmaker blessed with such serendipitous narrative riches would be content to simply recount the not-so-tall tale, but director Kristopher Belman takes it an added step: bringing the larger-than-life back down to a universally relatable scale.