Full-Court Miracle

<p>🕎 It’s 2003, and a team of Hebrew school basketball players think they’ve found the ghost of Judah Maccabee in a random guy living in a van.  </p><p>It’s time once again to think about the Seleucid Empire as we watch a Disney Channel Original Hanukkah Movie very loosely based on the true story of former college basketball star Lamont Carr and a yeshiva’s struggling team looking for a leader.  </p><p>****  </p><h2>🎙 Guests:  </h2><p>April Ryley (<a href="https://twitter.com/where2nextapril">@where2nextapril</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thefancygeologist/">@thefancygeologist</a>).  </p><p>J.W. Friedman (<a href="https://www.idontevenownatelevision.com">I Don’t Even Own a Television</a>).  </p><p>****  </p><h2>💬 Topics & Tangents:  </h2><p>1. <a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/full-court-miracle/5UK8LYhcH5jg">“Full-Court Miracle” on Disney+</a>.  </p><p>2. <a href="https://uvamagazine.org/in_memoriam/listing/1970s_fall_2017">Lamont Carr’s obituary in Virginia Magazine</a>, 2017.  </p><p>3. <a href="https://www.psychocandy.xyz/">Psychocandy</a>, an experimental pop duo of Cassie Steele (Julie) and Jase Blankfort (Stick).  </p><p>4. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20031124094651/http://virginiasports.ocsn.com/">UVA’s Athletics website circa 2003</a>.  </p><p>5. Alex’s prized <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?icep_ff3=9&toolid=10049&campid=5336835761&customid=CC&icep_uq=%281977-78%2C77-78%29+julius+erving&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=212&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=%281977-78%2C77-78%29+julius+erving&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&mkevt=1&_from=R40">Dr. J basketball card</a> isn’t even a rookie card and isn’t that valuable.  </p><p>6. “<a href="https://www.rebootshop.org/products/jewball">Jewball</a>,” a novel featuring the <a href="https://phillyjewishsports.org/2014/03/philadelphia-sphas/">South Philadelphia Hebrew Association</a> basketball team.   </p><p>7. Sadly, the only upload I could fin