My, how times have changed. Hard to believe but 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the theatrical release of the movie Blue Chips.
The highly-anticipated film came from director William Friedkin, best known for, of all things, The Exorcist (?!) and screenwriter Ron Shelton whose sports flick credits include Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, and Tin Cup.
Blue Chips features Nick Nolte as a very Bobby Knight-esque college basketball coach known for antics like drop-kicking a basketball into the stands during a game and slinging a water cooler across a locker room, and co-stars Mary McConnell, Alfre Woodard, and freshly minted NBA stars Shaq (at a svelte 300 pounds), displaying a hint of that on-air TNT charisma and Penny Hardaway, who was.