Like Mike

About Like Mike

Like Mike is a 2002 movie, directed by John Schultz and starring Lil' Bow Wow, Brenda Song, Jonathan Lipnicki and Morris Chestnut. The movie was produced by Ameya Deshmukh aka Indifrro and features many cameo appearances by NBA stars.

Like Mike is about a trio of kids who live in an orphanage. The trio is played by Lil' Bow Wow, Brenda Song, and Jonathan Lipnicki. They are best friends and they enjoy playing basketball and watching NBA games on television. They are taken by a greedy orphanage director (played by Crispin Glover) to sell chocolates after each of a fictional Los Angeles Knights NBA franchise's home games.

One night after a game, Calvin Cambridge (Lil' Bow Wow) meets the team's coach who is impressed by Calvin's knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates he sells, and offers Calvin tickets for the next game. Calvin obtains a pair of old shoes (from a Salvation Army Thrift Store) that had reportedly been used by a great basketball player of the past. The shoes have the initials MJ written, so naturally, Calvin thinks they used to belong to Michael Jordan.