Kyrie Irving will spend his summer rehabbing from his most recent knee surgery to remove a screw that had gotten a bacterial infection. The Celtics hope their All-Star point guard will be back by the time training camp kicks off in the fall, but as always, timetables can change.
While Irving is working his way back to the court, his first starring role in a movie, Uncle Drew, will hit theaters on June 29. We’ve heard a lot about the movie and its All-Star cast of former NBA stars, but on Thursday, we got our first look at an official trailer for the film.
The game is filled with stories of legends and how they were born. This is not that story. Watch the NEW trailer for #UncleDrew now and see it in theaters June 29! pic.twitter.com/mMP6KCtQQ9
— Uncle Drew (@UncleDrewFilm) April 26, 2018
As you can see, the movie follows a similar plotline to the Uncle Drew Pepsi ads, with Irving rounding up his crew of old friends to dominate on the court, but it does have a deeper plot beyond that with Lil’ Rel Howery, Nick Kroll, and Tiffany Haddish starring as the top billed non-hoopers on the film. The gist, as we can tell from the trailer, is that Howery’s squad loses Aaron Gordon to a rival squad captained by Nick Kroll ahead of a tournament, so he turns to Uncle Drew for help.
Drew brings together his rag-tag group of old friends to form the squad, including a partially blind Reggie Miller and karate instructor Shaq, who even has some very meta Kobe jokes. It looks like it will be a pretty entertaining movie and the fact that they appear to lean on Haddish, Kroll, and Howery for stability and bigger comedic moments with the basketball players as auxiliary characters is a good sign for the overall quality of the film.
