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Kyle Lee Watson

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Although “Above the Rim” had the urban grit you would expect from a street ball film, it was a little cliché ridden and predictable. Nevertheless, any fault of the film could not lay with Duane Martin, who was a legitimate Basketball player in Division III, NYU, and thus looked the part of concrete playground and Georgetown bound, Kyle Lee Watson. The issue for Watson’s induction is that he was overshadowed by Tupac Shakur who dominated this film and rendered the man who should have been the star to the second tier.


Kenny Tyler

Kenny Tyler
Kenny Tyler sunk the three that helped the University of Washington that helped them win the National Championship; which was an impressive feat considering his dead brother and teammate whose ghost had helped Washington win several games prior to. We will let that sink in for a minute.


Now that you have thought this over, is there any chance that anything from this predictable tripe should enter the Hall?

Jimmy Dolan

Jimmy Dolan
Squeaking out of the Contributors category because he played the Point for the African tribe in the movie’s third act, we now have the opportunity to play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” in the Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame. As Jimmy Dolan, Bacon travelled to Africa to recruit what he thought would be a star player for his university where he was a coach. As always, Bacon did a fine job, but it was not a movie that had much of audience. We suspect that the only way Kevin Bacon makes our Hall is by actually playing the Six Degrees game.


Jimmy Chitwood
Honestly, in our opinion this is not as much of a lock as people would think. It is undeniable that without Jimmy Chitwood, Hickory High does not win the Indiana State Championship, or even makes a dent in that tournament. We will also say that without Chitwood stating that if Coach Norman Dale was fired, he would not rejoin the basketball team. However, that moment was one of the most passionless speeches uttered in a pivotal sports cinema moment. Even on the hardwood, we remember less of the montage of Chitwood jump shots as opposed to the diminutive Ollie making those two free throws in the previous game.


Still let us all remember this: Jimmy Chitwood showed us that when the star player wants a certain coach, he gets it. Come on NBA fans that sound familiar doesn’t it?