Sanaa Lathan Says Love & Basketball Has ‘Crossed All Racial and Cultural Lines’

> “I just remember, after there was a five-minute standing ovation, I was just floored … and then the rest is history,” Lathan, 52, remembers of Love & Basketball’s reception at Sundance in January 2000.

> “It became this thing where people watched it over and over and over again, and it crossed all racial and cultural lines,” adds Lathan, who starred as basketball player Monica Wright opposite Omar Epps.