10 Highest Grossing Basketball Films of All-Time

The crop of basketball films over the years isn't quite as good as the football films or the baseball films but from time to time there is decent basketball movie that comes down the pike. But how have those movies fared at the box office? These are the 10 best box office grosses from basketball films.

10. Air Bud
Box Office Gross: $23.1 million
Air Bud is your typical story about a boy and his dog but in this film they both play basketball. That's right, a dog that has the ability to slam dunk a basketball. Not since Gus has there been an animal with such athletic ability.

9. Love & Basketball
Box Office Gross: $27.5 million
Love & Basketball is about a boy and girl that meet at the age of 11 and both want to play in the NBA. The movie follows the two as the play basketball in high school, college and into their pro careers.

8. Hoosiers
Box Office Gross: $28.6 million
Hoosiers is regarded as the best basketball movie of all-time and to some it is the best sports movie of all-time. However, Hoosiers made a very modest amount of money at the box office even for a movie at that time.

7. Eddie
Box Office Gross: $31.3 million
Eddie stars Whoopi Goldberg who plays the part of a limo driver and fan of the New York Knicks. Somehow this lowly limo driver finds herself as the new coach for the Knicks and she has to turn around a bunch of overpaid and underachieving players.

6. Semi-Pro
Box Office Gross: $33.5 million
Semi-Pro was a recent Will Ferrell comedy about a famous singer who buys the Flint Tropics, a team in the American Basketball Association. The ABA has decided to merge with the NBA but only a select number of teams will be a part of the merger. The Tropics must prove that they belong among the NBA teams.

5. Glory Road
Box Office Gross: $42.6 million
Glory Road is based on the true story of Don Haskins and Texas Western College. Haskins coached the first all-black starting lineup in college basketball in 1966.

4. Like Mike
Box Office Gross: $51.4 million
Like Mike stars Lil Bow Wow, a young orphan boy that finds a pair of sneakers with the initials M. J. written on them. When the boy asks to play like Michael Jordan the shoes grant him his wish and he has NBA superstar talent.

3. Coach Carter
Box Office Gross: $67.3 million
In the film Coach Carter, Samuel L. Jackson portrays Ken Carter, the head basketball coach at Richmond High School in Richmond, California. The movie is based on a true story about Carter, who had an undefeated basketball team but benched the team due to poor grades in school.

2. White Men Can't Jump
Box Office Gross: $76.3 million
White Man Can't Jump teamed up two popular of the era (Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson). Harrelson plays a former college basketball star by the name of Billy Hoyle who hustles streetballers that assume he isn't good because he's white. At first Hoyle humiliates Sidney Deane (Snipes) but eventually they team up to hustle people together.

1. Space Jam
Box Office Gross: $90.4 million
No other basketball movie had a shot at topping Space Jam. How can you possibly beat teaming up Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and friends with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang?