10 Performances That Prove NBA Players Make The Best Movie Stars

3. LeBron - Trainwreck (2015)

Trainwreck is the first film starring Amy Schumer, current president of comedy (possibly sharing power with Key & Peele). She plays a single gal in the big city (stop me if you've heard this one before) who meets a handsome doctor (stay with me) and eventually stops being single but presumably stays in the big city for the time being (never saw it coming, right?). It's fairly standard rom-com fare, elevated by the fact the Schumer is solid gold in every scene and John Cena is surprisingly sympathetic as the muscle-bound love interest who gets thrown over for the aforementioned doctor. Bill Hader plays the doctor who specialises in sport medicine and treats (among other athletes) Knicks players and a whole other article could be written on whether this exists in the same universe as Sex and the City and, if it does, whether Hader's character knows Miranda's ex-boyfriend. Anyway, through his work, the doctor has become friends with a number of basketball players, including the greatest player on earth- LeBron James. LeBron is good in this movie. Really good. Inconceivably good. This is a pretty funny film and he is one of the funniest things in it and that just seems impossible when he's sharing the screen with Saturday Night Live alum and, in one scene, Matthew Broderick. He's playing a version of himself and it works because he doesn't take himself seriously at all, a fact that would seem very unlikely to everyone who suffered through The Decision. In one of his best scenes, he talks up Cleveland to Hader and asks why the doctor hasn't visited him since he left Miami, which is a not-too-subtle takedown of every commentator who expressed disbelief that anyone would choose to live in Cleveland. He quotes Kanye like it's gospel (which, OK, it kind of is) and plays one on one against Hader, blocking every shot while casually carrying on a conversation. It's the best example of a celebrity playing with their own image since James Van Der Beek in Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23. If this was LeBron's soft-launch of the rumoured Space Jam 2, a way of convincing the world that he's ready to take on the franchise, then he definitely succeeded. Speaking of...