Adam Sandler's Hustle Fixes 1 Major Basketball Movie Problem

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Warning: Spoilers for Netflix's Hustle!

Adam Sandler's Hustle is now part of Hollywood's extensive history of making basketball movies, but it fixes one mistake that the rest often make. After previously starring in two football movies and one golf film, Adam Sandler's love for basketball finally translates to starring in a sports drama about the game he loves the most. Hustle stars Adam Sandler as an NBA scout named Stanley Sugerman, and the movie has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics.

Now that Hustle is part of Hollywood's legacy of basketball movies, it will continue to be compared to the great entries in this genre. There are plenty of films that can contend for being the best of them all, as various audiences might prefer White Men Can't Jump, Love and Basketball, He Got Game, or Hoosiers depending on what exactly they want. While all of these movies (Hustle included) fall into certain sports movie cliches, there is one thing Adam Sandler does better than the rest, and it all comes down to Hustle's cast of real NBA players.

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Hustle's underdog sports story is nothing new, but the movie stands apart for its ability to feature believable basketball. Outside of movies like Space Jam and He Got Game, basketball movies often prioritize featuring trained actors and trying to make them passable as basketball players. Hustle goes in the completely opposite direction by casting real NBA players and streetballers in almost every role that requires someone to dribble or shoot a basketball. So while Adam Sandler, Queen Latifah, Ben Foster, and other actors handle more of the story's heavy lifting, Hustle's NBA players elevate the basketball scenes to new heights.

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