{"id":2263759,"date":"2026-02-02T23:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263759"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:09:18","slug":"love-basketball-25th-anniversary-reunites-sanaa-lathan-and-gina-prince-bythewood-for-nba-all-star-week-panel-film-news-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/love-basketball-25th-anniversary-reunites-sanaa-lathan-and-gina-prince-bythewood-for-nba-all-star-week-panel-film-news-in-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love & Basketball\u2019 25th Anniversary Reunites Sanaa Lathan and Gina Prince-Bythewood for NBA All-Star Week Panel \u2013 Film News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In celebration of its 25th anniversay, Gina Prince-Bythewood<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLove & Basketball<\/a>\u201d is set to launch the Hbcu First Look Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The event takes place Feb. 12, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Pt at the Maybourne Beverly Hills, featuring a reception and panel discussion exploring the film\u2019s cultural impact on women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n

celebrity.land<\/a> anchor Laura Coates<\/a> will moderate the conversation titled \u201c25 Years of Love & Basketball: A Celebration of Women in Sports,\u201d joined by director Prince-Bythewood, star Sanaa Lathan<\/a>, sports journalist Cari Champion<\/a> and broadcasting pioneer Jayne Kennedy<\/a>, the first Black woman sportscaster on national network television.<\/p>\n

The film will kick off NBA week.<\/p>\n

The panel will examine how the 2000 film\u2019s legacy connects to today\u2019s rising visibility of women\u2019s athletics across the WNBA, college sports and media coverage. Prince-Bythewood\u2019s film was added to the National Film Registry in 2023. Lathan\u2019s portrayal of Monica Wright<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of its 25th anniversay, Gina Prince-Bythewood\u2019s \u201cLove & Basketball\u201d is set to launch the Hbcu First Look Film Festival. The event takes place Feb. 12, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Pt at the Maybourne Beverly Hills, featuring a reception and panel discussion exploring the film\u2019s cultural impact on women\u2019s sports. celebrity.land anchor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Love-Basketball-25th-Anniversary-Reunites-Sanaa-Lathan-and-Gina.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263761,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263759\/revisions\/2263761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}