Hello, fellow movie fans. I'm Lily Percy and welcome to our last episode together.

It feels so right that we end this podcast by talking about a movie that I love dearly, love in basketball,

with the wonderful writer Liera Tamani. As always, if you haven't seen the movie, don't worry,

we're going to give you all the details you need to follow along.

Love and Basketball, written and directed by Gina Prince By the Wood, is a movie that gets better and better with each viewing.

The first time that I saw it, I was in college,

and I was so struck by the relationship at the center of the movie, the love story.

But the older that I get, the more that I marvel at all the things that I didn't see then,

the way in which the character of Monica is a star and a role model for all of us as women of what we can

become even from a young age.

So how come you can play basketball?

I just can.

I never knew a girl that I can play.

But my mama said she doesn't know where I come from because I act different.

Your dad play?

Who works at a bank?

My dad plays for the clippers. He says I'm going to be a doctor or a lawyer, but I'm going to play for them too. Same number and everything. Well, I'm going to be number 32, like Magic. He's all right. My dad can take him. What was the most points your dad had ever got in junior high? I don't know. A lot. One game, Magic scored 48 points.

They only had six minute quarters, and he set out the whole fourth quarter.

You do act different.

I don't care.

Well, if anybody messes with you, just let me know, because I run the street.

The movie tells the story of Monica Wright, played by Sinal Lathan and Quincy McCall, Omar Epps,

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