Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “Love and Basketball”
Sanaa had no hoop skills
Sanaa also told the LA Times that before she started working on the film she had no prior experience with basketball. She recalled that her basketball tryout with Prince-Bythewood was terrible. “It was so embarrassing because literally I didn’t know how to dribble. I didn’t know how to hold the ball. But I’m proud of how it looks [in the movie]. I had no idea I would be able to do it.”