Ryan Jamar Boatright (born December 27, 1992) is an American-born naturalized Armenian professional basketball player for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball Super League (BSL).
 He also represents the Armenian national basketball team.
 He completed his college career at Connecticut in 2015.
 Boatright was a key player for the Huskies' 2013–14 NCAA Championship team, as he earned 2014 NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team honors.
Richard Vernon Huffman (December 18, 1914 – March 18, 1995) was an American football and basketball player.
 He was born in Mooreland, Indiana and was raised in and around New Castle, Indiana.
 He played basketball for the New Castle High School team that won the Indiana state basketball championship in 1932.
 He enrolled at Indiana University in 1932 and played both football and basketball there.
 He was an All-American in both basketball and football at Indiana and won the 1936 "Chicago Tribune" Silver Football as the best football player in the Big Ten Conference.
 He played two seasons of professional football in the National Football League for the Detroit Lions in 1937 and 1938.
 Huffman later managed a dairy and worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
 He was inducted into the Indiana Hoosiers Hall of Fame in 1982.
 Huffman died in 1995 at age 80 in Bloomington, Indiana.
William J. "Bill" Perigo (September 17, 1911 – February 7, 1990) was an American basketball player and coach.
 He played college basketball for Western Michigan University from 1931 to 1934 and professional basketball for the Indianapolis Kautskys from 1934 to 1936.
 Perigo also worked as a basketball coach for more than 25 years.
 He was the basketball coach at Benton Harbor High School for 13 years and led the team to the Michigan Class A state championship in 1941.
 He was the head basketball coach at Western Michigan University (1949–1952) and the University of Michigan (1952–1960).
 In 1983, he was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame.
Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film starring basketball player Michael Jordan and featuring the "Looney Tunes" cartoon characters.
 The film was produced by Ivan Reitman, and directed by Joe Pytka, with Bruce W. Smith, Korey Coleman, Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone directing the animation.
 Nigel Miguel was a basketball technical advisor.
Theodore B. Payseur (December 31, 1901 – June 1982) was an American basketball player and coach and athletic director.
 He attended Drake University, where he was a member of the basketball and golf teams.
 He was the leading scorer in basketball in the Missouri Valley Conference for two years.
 He graduated from Drake in 1922 and worked as a football, basketball and track coach at Dubuque High School from 1923 to 1926.
 He was hired by Northwestern University in 1926 and over the next 19 years held positions as freshman basketball coach, intramural director, business manager and assistant basketball coach.
 In 1945, he was hired as Northwesterna's athletic director, a position he held until 1956.
 In 2005, he was inducted into "The Des Moines Register" Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.
Invincible Ed is the debut graphic novel written and illustrated by Ryan Woodward who has worked on such film projects as "Space Jam", "The Iron Giant", "Osmosis Jones", and "Spider-Man 2".
 "Invincible Ed" was originally released by Summertime Books, Woodward's own publishing company.
 The entire four issue miniseries was released later by Dark Horse Comics in 2004.
Christopher Ryan Collins (born April 19, 1974) is an American basketball player and coach from Northbrook, Illinois.
 He is currently the head coach at Northwestern University.
 Collins previously served as associate head coach of the Duke University men's basketball team and is the son of National Basketball Association (NBA) player, coach, and commentator Doug Collins.
Thomas Ryan Walkup (born December 30, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg of the German Basketball Bundesliga.
 He played college basketball for Stephen F. Austin State University.
 Walkup was named Southland Conference Player of the Year for two consecutive seasons (2015 and 2016).
 Before playing at the college level, he attended Deer Park High School in Deer Park, Texas.
 Walkup is a native of Pasadena, Texas.
Kristaan Iman Johnson (born July 18, 1975) is an American retired professional basketball player.
 He was named Los Angeles City Section Player of the Year and won two consecutive California state basketball championships while playing high school basketball for Crenshaw High School.
 Johnson played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, where he also won a NCAA championship his freshman year in 1995.
 Johnson played eight years professionally in multiple countries, winning the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Champions Cup in 2002 and being named the tournament's Most Valuable Player (MVP).
 He later worked as a basketball analyst for Fox Sports before starting his own sports website, JerseyChaser.com.
Peter S. Tillotson (born March 23, 1936) is an American former basketball player.
 He grew up in Ludington, Michigan, and played basketball for Ludington High School from 1951 to 1954.
 In three years at Ludington High, he scored 1,176 points -- 179 points as a sophomore, 433 points as a junior and 564 points as a senior.
 During the 1953–54 season, he averaged 25.6 points per game.
 He led Ludington to a 21–2 record and the state finals in 1952 and an 18–4 record in 1953.
 As a student at the University of Michigan, he played center for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team from 1955 to 1958.
 He was the captain, most valuable player, and leading scorer on the 1957–58 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.
 He scored 415 points during the 1957–58 season (an average of 18.8 points per game), the second highest point total in Michigan's history to that point.
 Tillotson was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals in the fifth round (53rd overall pick) of the 1958 NBA draft.
 He was injured during the pre-season training camp for Syracuse and spent the 1958–59 season playing for the Milan Simmenthal in the Italian Amateur League.
 He led Milan to a second-place finish for the European championship while averaging 18 points and 11 rebounds.
 He played for Syracuse in 1960, but his playing career ended after he sustained a knee injury.
 After retiring from basketball, Tillotson worked for nearly 40 years for Ford Motor Company, Paine Webber, Goldman Sachs and General Electric.
 He retired in 2001.
 He was included in the inaugural class of seven athletes inducted into the Mason County Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

Question: Who was the starring basketball player in the movie that Ryan Woodward worked on that was about basketball?
Answer: Michael Jordan