Things that you Should know about Love & Basketball

Movies By Nick Neistat 24 December 2022

Love & Basketball came out in the United States on April 21, 2000. Critics liked it a lot.

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The movie’s soundtrack, Love & Basketball, came out on Overbrook Entertainment and Interscope Records on April 18, 2000.

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Raphael Saadiq, Angie Stone, Zapp, and Steve “Silk” Hurley were among the recording artists who helped make the album. The album reached its highest position in the US at number 45 on the Billboard

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Gabrielle Union tried out for the lead role of Monica, but ended up playing the high school love interest of Quincy.

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This was the second movie that both Epps and Dennis Haysbert were in together. In the 1994 baseball movie Major League II.

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Love & Basketball came out on April 21, 2000, in 1,237 theatres in North America. It made $3,176,000 on its first day and $8,139,180 over the weekend in North America.

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