HBO's "The Wire," which turns 15 years old this year, gave us so many wonderful things: Omar Little, a new way of spelling and pronouncing a profanity, a whole scene built around a different profanity, Idris Elba, the greatest drama in TV history.
It also had a basketball scene that resembled actual basketball, which, even in this era of "Peak TV," is bafflingly rare. Most footage still looks like something out of a Disney Channel Original Movie. The ball movement is nonexistent, the "ankle-breaking moves" unnatural, the verisimilitude altogether MIA.