Love & Basketball (2000) – Filming Locations
Comedy / Drama / Romance · Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood · Starring Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
Where was Love & Basketball filmed?
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – NBA games and basketball sequences featuring professional games. The iconic Los Angeles arena served as the venue for professional basketball game scenes, grounding the film's sports narrative in a real NBA setting
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – Opening sequences and establishing shots of the characters' neighborhood and childhood homes. Long Beach locations provide the working-class Los Angeles backdrop where the story begins and the characters grow up together
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – Various scenes throughout the film showing urban Los Angeles settings and character interactions. Downtown LA locations provide authentic Southern California urban landscapes for multiple pivotal scenes in the characters' adult lives
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – UCLA campus and surrounding Pasadena locations representing college basketball setting. Pasadena and UCLA locations authenticate the college basketball portion of the narrative where the characters compete athletically