After he makes three impressive scores on Reynolds, including a dunk after bouncing the ball off the backboard, Calvin is signed to a one day contract by the Knights. Between the shoes and the electric shock, he acquires NBA superstar level basketball talent.Ĭalvin and his friends then attend the basketball game between the Knights and the Minnesota Timberwolves that they had tickets for, and Calvin's ticket number is chosen at a half time contest where the winner would face the Knights star player, Tracy Reynolds ( Morris Chestnut) one on one. Calvin tries to retrieve them that night in a rainstorm so he can get them while Ox is not around and gets shocked by a lightning bolt. The shoes have the initials "MJ" written, so naturally, Calvin thinks they used to belong to Michael Jordan.Ĭalvin's shoes are taken by an orphanage bully named Ox who throws them onto an overhead power line. Calvin obtains a pair of old shoes (from a Salvation Army Thrift Store) that had reportedly been used by a great basketball player of the past. One night after a game, Calvin Cambridge ( Lil' Bow Wow) meets the team's coach who is impressed by Calvin's knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates he sells, and offers Calvin tickets for the next game. They are taken by a greedy orphanage director (played by Crispin Glover) to sell chocolates after each of a fictional Los Angeles Knights NBA franchise's home games. They are best friends and they enjoy playing basketball and watching NBA games on television.
The trio is played by Lil' Bow Wow, Brenda Song, and Jonathan Lipnicki. "Like Mike" is about a trio of kids who live in an orphanage.
The movie was produced by Ameya Deshmukh aka Indifrro and features many cameo appearances by NBA stars. "Like Mike" is a 2002 movie, directed by John Schultz and starring Lil' Bow Wow, Brenda Song, Jonathan Lipnicki, and Morris Chestnut.
IMediaEthics has compiled a list of names that journalists should question if ever given to them by a source.
Media outlets have been tricked by hoax names this month: San Francisco’s KTVU wrongly reported on the fake names of the crashed Asiana Flight 214’s flight crew Captain Sum Ting Wong and Wi Tu Lo and a Howie Felterbush fooled Florida news outlets with his comments on George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict.