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The Rewatchables

‘Above the Rim’ With Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.613.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre play ball without a ball as they revisit the 1994 sports drama ‘Above the Rim,’ starring Duane Martin, Leon, and Tupac Shakur. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? Are you tuning in to the Challenge USA on CBS?

0:04.2

Well tune in to me, Tyson Apostle, as I break down each and every episode with my co-host,

0:10.2

Amelia Wedamire. I'm also a contestant on the show, which gives you all the insider scoop.

0:15.2

Amelia, how stoked are you to do this?

0:17.4

Tyson, I'm freaking excited. I cannot wait to sit my butt down every single week to watch the show,

0:22.6

then come here and recap it with you on the Ringer Reality TV podcast.

0:30.9

The rewatchables is brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where you can find higher learning

0:35.4

with Van Lathen who's on his phone right now. You can also find the Ringerverse with Van Lathen.

0:41.6

You can find weekends with Waz on the Ringer Ambition. What happens to that

0:44.6

show during the off season?

0:45.8

Um, hopefully we take some time off, maybe pop in every now and again with something big happens,

0:50.4

which you know how quiet it gets in July and August in the NBA.

0:53.5

Waz floats around. He's not a bunch of us.

0:58.9

We're, as we're taping this, seven things might happen in the, uh, in the NBA.

1:04.4

My name is Bill Simmons. We're going to talk about a movie that we all have called above the rim.

1:09.2

It's next.

1:10.1

We both know this more than making it then what happens on the court.

1:40.8

All right.

1:46.0

Big Waz is here. Van Lathen is here above the rim came out in 1994.

1:51.4

It's a national treasure.

1:53.2

And it's 28th anniversary.

1:55.2

We did a giant piece about it on Grayland that I wrote with Rick Bartholomew, an Andrew Sharp,

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