But what makes this even better is that there are more similarities than you might think: 1. Both Duke basketball players and the guys from Goodfellas get special treatment from authority figures, whether they wear badges or stripes. 2. Fortunes of the movie's characters and basketball team peak in the middle and then collapse down the stretch. 3. Main characters will be anonymous in a few years (Henry Hill went into witness protection, Jon Scheyer will go into NBDL).
