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2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Derek Vinyard

TV Show/Movie Appeared: American History X (1998)
Actor/Actress: Edward Norton
Played For:: His White Supremacist team
Why you should vote:: Detestable or not, Vinyard’s Basketball victory was well shot and looked very good.
Why you should not vote:: Basketball is a minor part of this film.
A controversial candidate for many obvious reasons, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) was the main protagonist in American History X, a film about a neo-Nazi who repented while in prison. One of the more pivotal scenes was when Vinyard led his team white supremacists to victory over a group of African Americans on a playground basketball court. It was a scene we loved and detested at the same time, but it was one of the better cinematic triumphs of the sport seen on the silver screen. Too bad that triumph was a little too much “Triumph of the Will”