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[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I thought the plot of the movie was they didn't have enough for a full team, except this one weird loophole allows a dog to play.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From Wikipedia, he was just a mascot until:

The Timberwolves struggle in the championship game and an injury leaves them with four players. Buddy shows up to the crowd's cheers. After it is discovered that there is no rule preventing a dog from playing basketball, he is added to the roster and...

spoilerleads the team to victory.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if the plot of Air Bud was learning the valuable lesson that dogs don't understand court strategy or rules and they get crushed?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

"why did we do this?"
"we thought... we thought... I don't know what we thought."

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok but it's not the NBA, you can easily just grab a kid and put a jersey on him lol

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

you can easily just grab a kid and put a jersey on him lol

Pro-tip: don't do this.

I've never actually seen it, but I assumed that was the plot.