Did you know that the Survivor Africa reality television show winner Ethan Zohn was a professional football player?
HE GOT GAME The SEATTLE SUPERSONICS of the NBA, All-Star guard RAY ALLEN was featured in the film “He Got Game.” Co-starring alongside Denzel Washington, he played high school basketball phenomenon “Jesus Shuttlesworth”. He also appeared as “Marcus Blake” in the movie Harvard Man in 2001. Allen is nicknamed “Jesus” due to his role as “Jesus Shuttlesworth” in the He Got Game movie. Check out your CD shopya know what I’m say-yin? WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP Another basketball film with NBA roots is White Men Can’t Jump a 1992 feature film starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as basketball hustlers, and co-staring Rosie Perez as Harrelson’s girlfriend Gloria Clemente. Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) and Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) are talented basketball hustlers who team up to make a killing, using Billy’s white color against African-Americans who assume White Men Can’t Jump. Billy’s ambition is to pay off a large gaming debt and settle down with his savvy girlfriend Gloria Clemente (Rosie
