NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows

NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows – Marques Johnson

Marques Johnson was a star at UCLA who had a long and successful NBA career, playing 11 years and making 5 All-Star teams. He carried the Milwaukee Bucks in the years after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left, and still ranks fourth in Bucks history with 71.1 win shares.

In recent years he has become one of basketball’s best analysts, working for Fox Sports and specifically for the Bucks’ telecasts for the last half decade. Decades before, however, he tried his hand as an actor in a few films.

The most well-known of these, by far, is his performance as street basketball star “Raymond” in 1992’s White Men Can’t Jump. After Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson’s characters hustle him out of money he loses it, providing an intense foil at times throughout the film.

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Johnson then pops up in some of the other films we see NBA stars in throughout the 1990s, including Blue Chips and Forget Paris. Since then he’s occasionally stepped back onto the screen for minor roles in shows like State of Mind, Boston Legal and Castle.