Love & Basketball has a legitimate case as one of the most underrated sports movies of all time. Maybe this is what it takes for the film to finally receive its proper due. During his media session at All-Star Saturday, Steph Curry named Gina Prince-Blythewood's 2000 epic as his favorite basketball movie of all time. Why? The Golden State Warriors superstar, he's happy to admit, is a bit of a softie when it comes to romance.

The 2000 film starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan traces the decades-long relationship between childhood friends, basketball stars, and adult lovers Quincy McCall and Monica Wright.

If you're able to suspend disbelief about Epps' broken jumper and Lathan's obvious discomfort with the ball in her hands, the basketball scenes in Love & Basketball rank as perfectly acceptable at the least, and better than many others in Hollywood at most. It's the heart of this film, though, from both a sports and romance perspective, that really makes it a classic. A tightly-wound script and killer soundtrack keeps the two-hour, four-minute drama that spans multiple decades from feeling overlong, too.

Perhaps Curry is spending his Saturday night rewatching Love & Basketball with his family, nursing a bruised ego after he narrowly lost to Brooklyn Nets guard Joe Harris in the three-point shootout? Sounds pretty great to us.

The Warriors? Also great!