2023 Fictitious Athlete Hall of Fame - Round 1

Jamal Wallace

TV Show/Movie Appeared: Finding Forrester (2000)
Actor/Actress: Rob Brown
Why you should vote:: This is a great reminder (for all of us) that Basketball, and sports in general is not the be all and end all.
Why you should not vote:: If we go by what we saw on the court, his key athletic scene is missing two free throws.
This one almost escaped us. From the brilliant Gus Van Sant film, “Finding Forrester” we have a film about friendship when a reclusive writer Sean Connery) befriends an inner city kid (Rob Brown) who is adept at poetry as he is in Basketball.

Jamal Wallace (Brown) has a chance to receive a full scholarship based on both his academics and hoops skills and through his new friendship with Forrester (Connery) they learn from each other. Realistically, Basketball plays a small role here, but this is a great film to watch.