NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows – Rick Fox
For Rick Fox, being a part of the Los Angeles Lakers was a chance to play basketball on the biggest stage and win championships, but it was also an opportunity to parlay his basketball platform into a long acting career.
Fox’s big break and most iconic role was as Chick Deagan in the aforementioned “He Got Game” but he didn’t stop there. Young people of a certain generation may recognize Fox as the baseball star Clyde “Sweetfeet” Livingston from 2003’s Holes, when Shia LaBeouf is accused of stealing a pair of his shoes.
Fox was no stranger to supporting roles while in the league, playing in the shadows of stars such as Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. He had no problem doing that as an actor, taking small roles and amassing a long line of acting credits.
He had an 11-episode run in the prison series “Oz” and continued through a number of television series, including multi-episode runs of “1-800-Missing”, “One Tree Hill and even “Ugly Betty.” He had established a legitimate, and lengthy, acting career. Err, we’ll skip over his role in Sharknado 3 for now.