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Basketball and the movies: The 2004 Gheorghie Awards
Best Old-Old-School Movie

With the All-Star weekend festivities taking place in Hollywood, NBA.com recognizes the symbiosis of basketball and filmdom in presenting the 2004 Gheorghie Awards. Named in honor of seven-foot-seven basketball and entertainment legend Gheorghe Muresan (Washington Bullets, My Giant, Snickers and ESPN ads, et al), the Gheorghies unveiled dozens of nominees in 15 categories over three days, with your votes determining the winners. The envelopes, please.

Complete Results

And the nominees are:

Campus Confessions (1938)
Betty Grable starred in this college hoops comedy with Hank Luisetti, who invented the jump shot in real life as an All-American at Stanford.

Go, Man, Go! (1954)
Los Angeles Times film critic Ken Turan told ESPN.com that a scene from this Harlem Globetrotters movie in which ballhandling wizard Marques Haynes dribbles around team founder Abe Saperstein is his favorite in any sports movie.

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Fred MacMurray stars as a Medfield College professor who invents “flubber”, a magical rubber-like substance which allows, among other things, the school’s basketball players to realize some serious increases in their verticals.