You might be familiar with the name Leigh Ann Tuohy. She is the adopted mother of NFL tackle Michael Oher, the player whose story inspired the book and movie, The Blind Side. In the film, Tuohy is played by Sandra Bullock who later went on to win an Oscar for her role. Four days ago, Tuohy posted this photo (and accompanying story) on her Facebook and Instagram accounts. We see what we want! It’s the gospel truth! These two were literally huddled over in a corner table nose to nose and the person with me said “I bet they are up to no good” well you know me… I walked over, told them to scoot over. After 10 seconds of dead silence I said so whats happening at this table? I get nothing.. I then explained it was my store and they should spill it… They showed me their phones and they were texting friends trying to scrape up $3.00 each for the high school basketball game! Well they left with smiles, money for popcorn and bus fare. We gave to STOP judging people and assuming and pigeon holing people! Don’t judge a book by its cover or however you’d like to express the sentiment! Accept others and stoping seeing what you want to see!!! #LeighAnnesSundaySermon #BelieveInOthers A nice gesture. Sure. Publicizing it is a little weird but whatever, maybe that’s what she does on social media. Anyway, some time in the last 48 hours, one of the young men in the pic responded on Instagram. And that comment is now the basis for serious vitriol hurled at Tuohy. Leigh Ann Tuohy’s Latest White Savior Act Isn’t So Great

I know, I know. We shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds us. We should be grateful to be given good homes. Except that’s how you speak about dogs, I’m sick of black people being treated like animals, and America is not Leigh Ann Tuohy’s personal ASPCA. Leigh Anne Tuohy, Racism, and the White Saviour Complex Leigh Anne Tuohy profiled two Black kids, invaded their privacy and interrogated them, but somehow people are behaving as if this is some kind of wonderful social justice moment. No. Not even a little. This is some fucked up racial profiling combined with white saviourism.

The Blind Side Lady Shares A Heartwarming Racial Profiling Story I don’t think Tuohy is telling the story she thinks she’s telling… The young man in the pic again responded on Instagram. This time with details defending Tuohy’s action (sort of). Where does this all leave us? Who knows. In the end, Tuohy is probably not the monster racist several Facebook commenters want you to believe she is. Maybe, just maybe, she wanted to do something nice. Now check out… The 25 Best Basketball Movies Of All Time by Spencer Lund and Jack Winter It’s summer time, and that means NBA players are at the beach, or in the gym getting ready for next year. Some are in Las Vegas playing for their Summer League teams, but it’s freakin’ hot there, and while it’s a fun bit of basketball as a summer respite, it’s a long way from the level of action we were watching in June. So that leaves the rest of us plenty of time to twiddle our thumbs and wonder what the hell we’re going to do to pass the time before training camps and preseason ball tips off in October. It’s only natural, with DIME joining the UPROXX family a year from this past February, that we do another update on our basketball movie rankings. This list is subjective, but that shouldn’t stop you from offering up your own suggestions and giving us a hard time if we missed one of your own hoop favorites.

BEST SCENE: Nothing specific jumps out, but Whoopi does call Avery Johnson a “roach,” when he tells her she can’t coach. That made us laugh harder than we should have. 22. THE FISH THAT SAVED PITTSBURGH SUMMARY: “The Doctor,” Julius Erving, is the main character! Plus, famed Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon is also in the film, as is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a super-young Marv Albert playing himself. The film seeks to capitalize on the star power of Erving and the groovy 1970s ABA vibe can be felt throughout the flick, which also includes a killer soundtrack, big hair and a circus-like atmosphere to the basketball games. Famed actress Stockard Channing also gets one of her first film credits and really do we need to say anything more about this movie? Yeah, there’s some bizarre astrological nonsense going on and Pittsburgh isn’t a basketball city, but who cares, this is must see for anyone who has read Terry Pluto’s seminal ABA oral history, Loose Balls. BEST SCENE: After lining up a team that all falls under Erving’s character’s sign (Pisces), they make it to the championship game. But really, just listen to the tunes, too. They might be the best part of the film, which is more style than substance and is more cult hit than something you’re going to really get into when you watch. 21. THE BASKETBALL DIARIES SUMMARY: This is a film based on a book of the same name. And the book is a lot more about teenage angst while growing up in New York and heroine addiction than it is about basketball. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as the protagonist and author of the book, Jim Carroll, and we’ll never really get over the time he and his friends shoot up before a game — the slow-motion sequences are eerie, drug-soaked looks at game action. Plus, some of the other hard-to-handle material is like a childhood nightmare. This movie is better than any D.A.R.E. instruction on the dangers of drugs and addiction, but it makes our list because the basketball court is the metaphor of Carroll’s spiraling despair and ultimate redemption. BEST SCENE: The aforementioned slow-motion sequences, but when Carroll returns to his mother — played by Lorraine Braco — to ask for drug money, it will destroy you, especially if you’re a parent. 20. SEMI-PRO SUMMARY: In this one, Will Ferrell plays a 1970s one-hit wonder named Jackie Moon who used his transitory fame to procure an ABA team in 1976. If that sentence doesn’t get you amped for this film, then nothing probably will. It’s not Old School or Anchorman or anything that classic in the Ferrell catalogue, but it doesn’t need to be to crack our top-20. Plus, Outkast’s Andre 3000 and Woody Harrelson (who will be on this list later) co-star, and if you haven’t gotten your fill of ABA hijinks in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Semi-Pro will more than sate you. BEST SCENE: Perhaps when they wait for a TV timeout before brawling, but really we’re so distracted by Harrelson’s flowing tresses, Ferrell’s ’70s perm, and Andre Benjamin’s afro, it’s hard to even focus on that. 19. HEAVEN IS A PLAYGROUND SUMMARY: This is a 1991 movie involving an inner-city coach who teams with a lawyer to help youngsters out through playing basketball. Former NBA player Bo Kimble also stars and the basketball sequences are pretty solid because of it. It’s not groundbreaking cinema, but it’s a good watch despite how few have seen it. Plus, the theme of the story is timeless and equally as important to this country today. BEST SCENE: Truth Harrison and Matthew Lockhart — real character names, by the way — go one-on-one. 18. ONE ON ONE SUMMARY: Speaking of going mano a mano, One on One is something of an metaphor for Pistol Pete Maravich, though not overtly so. Henry Steele is the star of his high school team, but when he goes to a major college, he quickly becomes overwhelmed, especially because he never really learned to read. A pretty co-ed helps him just in time for him to battle his overbearing coach.

BEST SCENE: Obviously the one-on-one scene where the coach tries to get Steele to lose it by hiring a big football player to mess him up. Steele doesn’t back down. 17. SUNSET PARK SUMMARY: If you grew up in the suburbs, this was the movie that had all your classmates wishing they were from the inner-city. This was also the first basketball movie where a dictatorial coach changed the culture of the team. A young Terrence Howard plays one of the players Spaceman, but Rhea Perlman plays coach Phyllis Saroka and Fredro Starr does a good job as the main hooper, who also misses a game because he’s at Rikers charged for murder. Not many people remember this flick, but it set the blueprint for another movie later in our list and it’s the first inkling of what was to come for the basketball movie genre. BEST SCENE: When Rhea’s character convinces Spaceman not to stab his teacher. 16. THE AIR UP THERE SUMMARY: Contrary to popular belief, this isn’t the origin story of Hakeem Olajuwon, but it’s the first basketball movie we can remember that looked at the blossoming globalization of the game. Kevin Bacon plays an assistant college basketball coach, Jimmy Dolan, who is hoping an African big man he saw on a rare home movie, the basketball wonderkind, Saleh (played by Charles Gitonga Maina), is the player who can help him become head coach. But Saleh is the son of the chief, and Bacon is forced to live among the tribe in an effort to woo Saleh to the States. This movie did not age well, but the NBA is a world sport now, and this was the first movie to address that changing dynamic. BEST SCENE: The Jimmy Dolan shake-and-bake at the beginning still makes us laugh because Bacon isn’t a baller, but we actually enjoyed when Saleh pretends to suck after Dolan first arrives. 15. COACH CARTER SUMMARY: Samuel L. Jackson is perfectly cast as the tyrannical coach Ken Carter — based off the “real-life” coach in Richmond, California — who whips his loose and undisciplined high school team into shape. Jackson locks out his entire starting team because they broke his academic contract. This is near the apex of this type of archetypal sports movie, which Sunset Park paved the way for; although, we’re not sure if Rhea or Sam Jackson is a scarier coach. A nice bonus is seeing Ashanti and a young Channing Tatum in the cast. BEST SCENE: When the team finally figures it out. 14. HOOSIERS SUMMARY: Yawn. We’d like to leave this off, but some among the UPROXX crew would have revolted. This movie is your parents’ favorite basketball film, and while it was pretty awesome the first time we saw it, repeated viewings have cast it in a different light.

There are some pros: It’s the real-life story of the small Indiana high school who won the state title before Indiana divided its state championship into different tiers based off the size of the school. The Jimmy Chitwood character, the star of the team who doesn’t join the squad until a third of the way through, makes silence almost as cool as Ryan Gosling’s driver in Drive. Nothing creeps us out more than Gene Hackman kissing Barbara Hershey, and this ruins the whole film any time it comes on TV. BEST SCENE: Tie. When Ollie hits his free throws underhanded (take note, Andre Drummond). And the final shot by Jimmy when he finally speaks up after Gene Hackman’s coach wants to use Chitwood as a decoy. All the players stand up and Jimmy finally tells him: “I’ll make it.” 13. TEEN WOLF SUMMARY: Michael J. Fox plays the the talented Teen Wolf, and if you’ve ever read Bill Simmons before, you probably don’t even need this summary. But if you haven’t, this is a movie with some of the most contrived basketball scenes ever shot for a major motion picture. Teen Wolf’s dunks, in particular, look like the badly choreographed dunks of a 10-year-old who just figured out how to lower the rim. Regardless of that frivolous complaint, the movie itself is a classic, and any Michael J. Fox or movie fan should make sure to check it out. We’re just not so sure it’s an all-time classic basketball movie.

BEST SCENE: For basketball, it’s the Wolf’s first appearance on the court, that also doubles as a Globetrotters set piece with a trampoline in the restricted area: But surfing on top of the truck is our favorite scene, altogether, even if dumb kids probably tried to do it themselves at the time. 12. FAST BREAK SUMMARY: Classic. But because it’s from 1979, not many of our current readers are probably familiar with Gabe Kaplan’s finest role as a Brooklyn delicatessen owner and pickup player who dreams of coaching a real basketball team. He finally starts on that path with fictional Cadwallader University in Nevada. Bernard King plays Kaplan’s friend, Hustler, and an amazing assortment of players (D.C. and Preacher to name two), join him on his sojourn west were Kaplan’s team must beat a top-10 program if he’s going to keep his job. There’s also a sweet-shooting character named Swish, who is incredible, but also a woman, and who Kaplan disguises so she can play. There’s some martial strife because Kaplan’s wife wants to settle down, which means forgetting his stupid basketball-coaching dream, and a ton of things coming to a head as they finally get their big game. BEST SCENE: Too many to count, but when Gabe, with the help of Swish, uses basketball to help Donald Clarence (D.C.) get caught up on schoolwork and teach him to read, the resulting Hemingway soliloquy on the hardwood cracks us up. 11. REBOUND: THE LEGEND OF EARL ‘THE GOAT’ MANIGAULT SUMMARY: Don Cheadle plays the eponymous streetball legend, Manigualt, but Cheadle obviously can’t hoop, and that’s a good referendum on this HBO flick. The acting is superb as Cheadle fully inhabits the role of a street ball legend who was also a heroin addict. But Manigualt got clean and returned to the playground to help others (hence, the Rebound double entendre in the title). Cheadle is great, he just can’t hoop — no matter how much fellow co-star and former UCLA Bruins player, Nigel Miguel (playing the role of Sonny Johnson), tries to help (he tried to improve everyone’s game on set as an advisor as well as co-star). If you want a fine dramatic performance with sketchy basketball action that obviously uses a double for a lot of The Goat’s better moves, you can’t do any better than this. Plus, Manigault’s story is something any fan of the game should know. BEST SCENE: Uh, Kevin Garnett as Wilt Chamberlain? Yes, please. 10. PASSING GLORY SUMMARY: New Orleans, 1965. The all-white champions and the all-black champions play against each other as Andre Braugher’s (Homicide: Life on the Street) Father Joseph Verrett character leads the charge. (Braugher’s character, isn’t as fiery in real life, though.) He pushes the game against the wishes of the parish leader, played by Rip Torn. This is a true story of the first integrated basketball game in New Orleans history between all-black St. Augustine High School and all-white Jesuit High. It’s a TNT made-for-TV movie, but it’s got a powerful message, one shared by a movie we’ll discuss a little later sharing a same powerful noun in the title, too.

BEST SCENE: Obviously, when Braugher’s St. Augustine shows up at the Jesuit High championship celebration to let them know they haven’t won anything yet. 9. FINDING FORRESTER SUMMARY: Okay, this isn’t really basketball, but it’s such a great movie on its own and it’s heavily influenced by basketball, so we’re including it and making it a top-10 selection. It’s about a precocious young protagonist, Jamal Wallace (played by Rob Brown), who surreptitiously discovers a curmudgeonly, former award-winning writer, William Forrester, right as he’s offered an opportunity to play basketball for a prestigious private school in Manhattan. Sean Connery plays the writer and friend of Brown’s character, and Anna Paquin plays his love interest, who just so happens to the dean’s daughter. We love this movie because the basketball action is pretty solid, though it’s clear Brown can’t go left, and the takedown of the haughty, elitist private school by a well-read kid from a rough area reminds us of a basketball-infused Good Will Hunting, except set in NYC. BEST SCENE: “You the man now, DAWG,” said in a thick Scottish brogue as Wallace finds his flow on the typewriter is something we use in everyday conversation because Connery’s the best. But we’re gonna go with Connery’s takedown of sniveling, insecure english professor when he reads Jamal’s essay on friendship as our fav. 8. GLORY ROAD SUMMARY: Similar to Passing Glory, this film has glory in the title and it involves an all-black lineup (Texas Western) against an all-white one (Adolph Rupp’s Kentucky), except the stage is the 1966 NCAA Championship instead of 1965 New Orleans high school basketball. Josh Lucas plays Don Haskins who used the first all-black starting lineup in college basketball history and defeated mighty Kentucky in the championship game. It’s a true story, and they do it justice with this realistic re-imagining. The basketball scenes are better than expected, and the production is excellent. If you have children who love basketball, this is a must for them because it doubles as an important history lesson. BEST SCENE: The climax, when Texas Western showed America the deal. 7. CORNBREAD, EARL, AND ME SUMMARY: This 1975 flick could very well be in the top five because of the parallels with today. The character of Nathaniel ‘Cornbread’ Hamilton is played by real NBA player, Jamaal Wilkes (formerly, Keith Wilkes), who was the 1975 NBA Rookie of the Year, and made three NBA All-Star teams. The film revolves around a trio of young black men, including a pre-pubescent Laurence Fishburne playing Wilford Robinson and Tierre Turner as the Earl in the title.

Fishburne’s character ends up witnessing his older idol, Cornbread, get mistakenly gunned down in the back by police, who then try to cover up the incident. BEST SCENE: Fishburne’s painful howling in the rain: “They killed Cornbread!” 6. BLUE CHIPS SUMMARY: SHAQ! PENNY! Nick Nolte’s whiskey voice! Plus, look at all the cameos: Bob Knight, Rick Pitino, Nolan Richardson, Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Jerry Tarkanian, Matt Painter, Allan Houston, Dick Vitale and Jim Boeheim. This was the first feature film that pulled the curtain back from big-time college basketball recruiting. It tells the story of Nolte’s coach, Pete Bell, at fictional Western University in Los Angeles slowly succumbing to the allure of coaching “blue chip” recruits — Anfernee Hardaway and Shaquille O’Neal — by looking the other way at the shady handouts from boosters. It’s an NCAA morality tale, and — according to the Shaq and Penny-produced 30 for 30: The Magic Moment — it was when the two future Magic teammates first struck up the chemistry that led to their 1995 Finals appearance against the Houston Rockets. BEST SCENE: When Nick Nolte’s character first see’s Shaq’s Neon character on some grainy church footage where he appears to be dunking on rims made of this insanely thick iron that can withstand a Shaq jam. Just crazy. 5. SPACE JAM SUMMARY: You’ve definitely seen this movie, and if you haven’t, here’s pretty much all you need to know: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Bill Murray, and Bugs Bunny highlight an All-Star cast of characters that consists of NBA superstars, comedy legends, and iconic cartoon characters. If the sequel featuring LeBron James is ever made, by the way, here’s hoping the powers that be find a way to avoid putting a likeness of the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar in shackles. A chained-up Jordan hooping against his will on Moron Mountain wasn’t exactly sensitive to America’s national shame. BEST SCENE: The TuneSquad needs inspiration to come back from a mammoth deficit to the MonStars. After Jordan’s impassioned words fail to motivate his overmatched, hand-drawn teammates, Bugs comes up with a classic locker room gimmick that propels the TuneSquad to victory. 4. ABOVE THE RIM SUMMARY: While the team basketball action is sorta back, the soundtrack and acting are not. The story revolves around Kyle Watson (played by Duane Martin, a high school basketball star awaiting word on a possible scholarship to play at Georgetown. The finest performance is Tupac as Birdie, a local hood who wants Kyle to play for him in the local basketball tournament. Then there’s security guard Shep (played by Leon, best known as Jesus from Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” video and Cool Runnings), who is dating Kyle’s mom and used to play ball under the same high school coach who is trying to get Kyle to play for his team in the tournament.

The plot isn’t groundbreaking, but the performances felt very real when we first saw this growing up, and while the soundtrack is an all-time classic, it’s the performances that make this one of the first movies we think about when coming up with his list. Bernie Mac makes an appearance as an oddball homeless Falstaff-type character, Flip, and Marlon Wayans plays Kyle’s unfortunately named best friend, Bugaloo. This is an excuse to watch a decent enough story where Pac plays a role he was born to inhabit, and all the various plot twists are resolved in a climactic basketball game. BEST SCENE: So many to choose from, but while Tupac is his icy and playful best when he punks Bugaloo, and Leon does good work as Shep schooling Kyle one-on-one, we’ve always loved Kyle’s crossover on Flip, despite how mean it was. http://i.giphy.com/l0HlNSklotIcjADCw.gif 3. LOVE & BASKETBALL SUMMARY: Allow yourself the luxury of overlooking the fact that Omar Epps barely stands 5’10 and Sanaa Lathan had clearly never dribbled a basketball until prepping for her role, and there’s an argument to be made that this is the most complete film on our list. Part sports, part romance, part drama, part comedy, and part love letter to an era past, Love & Basketball traces the decades-long relationship between hoops stars Quincy McCall and Monica Wright. This is an epic movie; it spans well over a decade and is separated into four different quarters of our protagonists’ lives from childhood to adulthood. The scope of Love & Basketball can’t be accurately described in anything less than a full review, and we don’t have the space to do it that justice here. What will appeal to anyone who’s ever defied odds and expectations to achieve his or her dream, though, is the disparate natures with which Quincy and Monica rise and fall to basketball glory – not to mention the nuanced effect those successes and failures have on their feelings for one another. BEST SCENE: “I’m a ballplayer!” 2. WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP SUMMARY: “You guys look at me, you see the backwards hat, the grey socks, the funky outfit and you’re saying, ‘This guy’s a chump.’ Am I right?” Billy Hoyle was definitely right, but left out the one crucial detail of his carefully put together persona over which he has no control: the color of his skin. Woody Harrelson’s performance as hustler extraordinaire Hoyle makes White Men Can’t Jump go, and the always-complicated, often-hilarious nature of his friendship with Wesley Snipes’ Sidney Dean ensures this movie’s could-be problematic racial overtones never become an issue. Ron Shelton’s 1992 film relies on the chemistry of its leads to toe that line without ever crossing it, and achieves that delicate balance with the remarkable charisma of Harrelson and Snipes, not to mention a tightly-wound, detail-filled script that ultimately comes full circle.