Calvin also wins the Slam Dunk Contest, after which Tracy gradually respects Calvin. Calvin starts making the headlines and becomes the talk of the national sports media. He gets to visit hotels and places he never imagined existed and has Reynolds for roommate on the road. Calvin brings teamwork to the struggling Knights and makes them one of the best teams in the league.Ĭalvin experiences luxury for the first time while on the road with the team. Reynolds becomes his mentor through the NBA’s mentoring program, as Calvin is a minor. He comes back out and leads a comeback against the Spurs which results in an unexpected win, and leads him getting a season contract with the Knights. However, Calvin remembers that he can’t play without his sneakers and calls a time out to get them, by lying that he needs a bathroom break.
As the game plays, the Knights start losing badly and Coach Wagner decides to let Calvin play in the fourth quarter. Calvin prepares for his first game with the Knights against the San Antonio Spurs, but is benched for the game. As the contest begins, Calvin notices that he has NBA superstar talent he wins the contest with a dunk after bouncing the ball off the backboard, leaving the crowd speechless and Calvin is signed to a one-day contract by the Knights. Before the contest begins, a man in the crowd notices that one of Calvin’s shoe lace is untied and as, Calvin leans down to tie it, whispers to his sneakers – “Make me like Mike”. After the second quarter ends, the team’s best player, Tracy Reynolds, prepares for a half time contest, to play one-on-one with a randomly picked ticket from the audience.
The Knights are, at present, one of the worst teams in the league.
LIKE MIKE OX FREE
Next Day, Calvin and his friends go to the basketball game between the Knights and the Minnesota Timberwolves with the free tickets. Calvin tries to retrieve them the same night in a rainstorm, so as to get it when Ox is not around, and when retrieving the sneakers gets hit by a lightning bolt. The shoes have the initials MJ written on them, Calvin thinks they used to belong to Michael Jordan.Ĭalvin’s new sneakers are taken by a bully called Ox, who throws them onto an overhead power line. The next day, Calvin obtains a pair of old sneakers (blue and white Nike Blazers) from a Salvation Army store that had reportedly been used by a great basketball player, when he was a boy. One night after a game, Calvin meets the team’s coach, who is impressed by Calvin’s knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates he sells, and offers to Calvin tickets for the next Knights game. At night, they sell chocolates for the greedy orphanage director, Stan Bittleman, ( Crispin Glover) at each home game of the Los Angeles Knights (a fictional NBA franchise team loosely based on the Los Angeles Clippers). The plot is largely similar to Slam Dunk Ernest.Ĭalvin Cambridge, Reg Stevens and Murph are teenage orphans who are best friends.
A 14-year-old orphan becomes an NBA superstar after trying on a pair of sneakers with the faded initials “M.J.” inside. It was produced in association with NBA Entertainment and features cameo appearances by many NBA stars. Like Mike is a 2002 film fantasy sports– comedy film, directed by John Schultz and starring Lil’ Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki and Brenda Song.
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