Netflix’s Hustle is an incredible sports movie — easily one of the best I’ve seen. Adam Sandler has now played the feature role in two of my favorite flicks that I’ve watched over the last few years, the other being Uncut Gems. Admittedly, I watch like, maybe three new movies every year. I am the furthest thing from a cinephile and am most certainly not a critic. But Hustle and Uncut Gems were especially fun to watch, particularly Hustle, which really tugged at my basketball heartstrings.
Sandler plays an international scout for the Philadelphia 76ers by the name of Stanley Sugerman, who has been in the NBA for 30 years and now travels the world in search of the franchise’s next potential draft pick.