Many of the players and coaches portrayed in the movie were associated with actual teams: Dennis Rodman, who appears in this movie with the San Antonio Spurs, was already on the Chicago Bulls at the time of the movies release; Mark Jackson, who portrays one of the Knicks players "Taylor," was actually drafted and played for the Knicks in the late 80's early 90s; Larry Johnson, the Knicks biggest rival in the movie actually went on to play for the Knicks one year after the movie was released; 3 actual New York Knicks during the time of filming had a cameo in the playground pickup scene.... John Starks, Anthony Mason, and Herb Williams all appeared during the pickup scene in the playground; and Kurt Rambis, the current New York Knicks coach (2015-16), portrays the Lakers head coach in the film; He did go on the coach the Lakers on an interim basis in 1999 but was only an assistant coach at the time of filming.
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