Nets Nix Knick Flick!
by Net Income on Apr 26, 2010 9:15 AM EDT
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Rapper Common, who plays a Net superstar (remember them?) in the new Queen Latifah project, admits to New York Magazine the original plot for "Just Wright", called for his character, Scott McKnight, to be a Knick.
Enter Brett Yormark.
"We wanted to have him play for the Knicks, but the Nets offered a lot more cooperation," Commons explains. That cooperation entailed turning the IZOD Center over to the film's producers, arranging for 1,000 Nets fans to serve as extras, and have several top Nets players and front office types play themselves...including Rod Thorn, Lawrence Frank, Bobby Simmons, Marv Albert, and Tim Walsh.
The movie opens May 14, four days before the lottery and right around the time Mikhail Prokhorov is expected to become the Nets' principal owner. We can hardly wait for the Nets' marketing tie-ins.
- 168 Minutes With Common - Stephen Rodrick - New York Magazine
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Absolutely hysterical!
Yormarket is the king of… making the Nets a laughingstock! I hope the movie is halfway decent, and helps me forget about the disaster that was this past season (although most Q. Latifah films leave much to desired).
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Queen Latifah flick, but I must say, the trailer for this one doesn’t make it seem half bad. I suspect fans of most NBA teams – not just Nets fans – will have some interest in seeing it (or downloading it lol).
'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268817312
Yep, it really is… just another (small) part of – what I think might be fair to say – the busiest off-season in team history?
'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268817312
J-Kidd + Skip to my Lou = Common?
By the way, does anybody else think that – judging by the above pic – Common looks like some kind of Jason Kidd/Rafer Alston lovechild?
'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268817312
I noticed the Kidd resemblance
FYI, no Net has ever worn #19, not in the NBA or the ABA.
Perhaps John Wall, realizing Lopez is not giving up #11, and seeing the movie, will choose a number that matches his age.
I’m hoping Wall goes for the #1 jersey (or Turner for that matter), but if not, #19 – or any number not previously worn by a Nets player – would be sweet. It would be symbolic of a kind of new beginning for the franchise.
'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268817312
FYI...
- is already being claimed for next season by T-Will. Already controversy in Netsland. I love it!
I'm hoping if we get Wall that he chooses #2
Not really sure why, just think it would be a good number for him. or 10 perhaps.
by Newark2Brooklyn on Apr 26, 2010 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Glad that NJ took it from NY.
As for the movie, it won’t make the Nets a laughing stock as Morph suggests. This movie is just another version of “Love and Basketball” with Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan, just with a fatter woman and a fail at a clever title (when has that whole name twist ever been succesful-I’m thinking Hav Plenty). Anyway, in that movie, LA was the team the guy was on, but it was more about the love story than anything. It will me nice to see a team not from NY or LA in a sports movie though.
I hope you're right.
Wasn’t there another movie with the star being a player from the Nets? Was that “Love and Basketball”?
Forgive my ignorance – I’m a movie buff, but I can’t mix b-ball and romance well. Just doesn’t work for me.
your thinking of that Taye Diggs movie
with Sanaa Lathan and she dates a basketball player from the Nets. Forget the title though, the movie has lots to do with hip hop
I thought L&B was a good flick
but the movie has them playing at USC and then he plays for the Lakers. But those two are actors, not rappers trying to broaden their horizons.
I can’t remember a movie featuring the Nets, but Shawn Bradley was in a Nets jersey when he filmed Space Jam.
by navycavsfan on Apr 26, 2010 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
No publicity is bad publicity but...
If they approach the Nets with “Juwanna Mann 2”…
I hope they politely decline.
by JohnFromLongIsland on Apr 26, 2010 5:24 PM EDT reply actions
Really?
I don’t see it so much…
'The Crossover' - a Nets and Knicks podcast. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=268817312
The next project for Yormarket should be to try to get Proky in that Beer commercial as the "most interesting person in the world".
And show Proky with a Nets Jersey.
That would get some free agents thinking Nets.
And it would also sell a lot of that Beer, because I still don’t remember its name, but I remember the catch phrase.
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