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Coach Carter

NBA fans feeling gloomy about the me-first personalities plaguing the league can find some comfort in this fact-based sports drama about a high school basketball coach (Samuel L. Jackson) who made national headlines in 1999 for benching his winning team until they raised their grades. Worth seeing simply for the moment when Jackson launches into a sarcastic soliloquy of self-praise about how well he tied his own shoe.

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