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Desmond Mason was best known during his NBA career for his leaping ability which earned him the 2001 Slam Dunk Contest trophy while he was part of the Seattle Supersonics.
Now, two years after he last played in the league, he’s getting ready to play a part in a comedy titled “Just Crazy Enough.”
Mason calls his role a pretty big one despite the fact that his character doesn’t have any normal conversations with anyone:
“Throughout the course of the movie, they are asking me a bunch of questions and we are going through a lot of stuff and I am answering with random cliches that mean nothing,” Mason said.
This opportunity wasn’t something Mason was seeking out, it kind of just fell into his lap:
Mason, who moonlighted as an artist during his 10-year NBA career, was asked to design an award for the deadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City.
The festival’s executive director, Lance McDaniel, is a filmmaker whose most eye-catching credit is working as an assistant on “Million Dollar Baby,” which won an Oscar for Best Picture in 2004.
McDaniel, who is directing “Just Crazy Enough” and is sharing writer/producer duties with Sean Lynch, called Mason and made a pitch that went something like this: “I’ve got a spot in a movie. We think you would really fit. I’m sending you the script.”
And that’s how a former hoops star (Mason helped OSU to an Elite Eight appearance in 2000) graduated from artist to performance artist. -Source
Athletes get all the breaks. Maybe I should have worked on my handle a little harder in high school… Oh well, life moves on.
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