John Glenn keeps making 11-foot plays on a 10-foot rim. And that’s all part of a season of rare air for the Bobcats. With ...

Barry Michael Cooper, a writer and producer known for 'New Jack City,' 'Sugar Hill' and 'Above the Rim,' dies at age 66.

There is no discussion of 1990s-era Black movies without films written by Barry Michael Cooper, the Harlem, New York, ...

The 1991 crime thriller starred Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, and Chris Rock and became a cultural gem in cinema. Cooper continued to shape the landscape of Black storytelling with Sugar Hill (1993), starring ...

It's a place called "above the rim." Sure, the ability to powerfully drive to the basket or thread the needle for a perfect pass would be nice, but we all know that true roundball glory (cue the ...

meaning his whole head was above the rim, on the dunk. The second and third technicals, he said, came when Mathurin "after being correctly called for a foul, was issued two technical fouls in a ...

With the lob pass proving a key component of the Mavs attack and focus for the Celtics, here's a look at some of history's best.

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and director was behind the films "New Jack City," "Above the Rim" and "Sugar Hill", died Wednesday at 66.

Barry Michael Cooper, the writer and producer behind the classics New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim has died at ...

He also wrote the 1994 film Above The Rim, a basketball drama led by Tupac Shakur and based on a story by Jennifer Lopez' longtime manager Benny Medina. More recently, he served as a producer on ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his “Harlem trilogy” consisting of the films “New Jack City” (1991), “Sugar Hill” and “Above the Rim” (both 1994 ...

LOS ANGELES — Barry Michael Cooper, an investigative reporter-turned-screenwriter known for the films "New Jack City," "Above the Rim" and "Sugar Hill," has died. Cooper died Tuesday ...