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Love & Basketball

2000 · Comedy, Drama, Romance · Gina Prince-Bythewood

At 35% across 51 head-to-head matchups, Love & Basketball is still building its BingeBracket record. Gina Prince-Bythewood's debut tells a love story through basketball rather than around it, and the result is one of the rare sports films where the romance and the game sequences carry equal weight. It ranks among the weakest 2000s performers on the platform. 2.0s avg decision time (platform avg: 3.5s). No deliberation needed.

Synopsis

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

Round 1
44.1%
15/34
Semifinals
13.3%
The ceiling
Finals
50%

Above the Rim is the film Love & Basketball can't figure out — just 13% in their matchups. The 6th Man causes similar problems at 14%.

Kryptonite

Basketball Movie Madness Part II - The Snubs typically ends in the semifinals for Love & Basketball: trails Air Bud 56–44% in round one, loses to Above the Rim (13%) in the semifinals.

BingeBracket Record
35%
Win Rate
#43 of 48 in Comedy #37 of 41 from the 2000s
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
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Dead last in Basketball Movie Madness Part II - The Snubs.

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Above the Rim #1
The Basketball Diaries #2
Air Bud #3
Blue Chips #4
Semi-Pro #5
Inside Moves #6
The 6th Man #7
Love & Basketball #8
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