Air Bud (1997)

Jay Brazeau: Referee 1

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• Referee #1 : Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball.

• Josh Framm : [During first Timberwolves & Warriors basketball game, Buddy comes into gymnasium and knocked basketball out of a Warrior's grip]  Buddy!

  [Both teams start chasing Buddy, to try to get the basketball back, saying "Get him!"] 

  Josh Framm : Buddy, stop!

  Referee #1 : Hey, gimme that ball.

  Jackie Framm : [Loose basketball then hits a Gatorade ice-chest, causing a big spill on gymnasium floor]  Excuse me.

  Josh Framm : Get back here.

  [basketball hits referee in his forehead, making him walk to bench. Meanwhile, the other referee loses his balance and slides into a table, hitting one set of legs, causing the table to fold on end nearly injure him] 

  Josh Framm : Buddy, no!

  [Buddy then causes a rack of basketballs to spill, onto floor] 

  Josh Framm : Buddy, no!

  [Josh gets the basketball, then Buddy knocks it, out of Josh's hands and up into basketball rim for a bucket. Audience and referees are a -first in shock and then start cheering for Buddy] 

  Josh Framm : Buddy, bad dog!

  Jackie Framm : Sorry, Josh. Come on, Buddy.

  Josh Framm : [after the game]  Hey, boy.

  Jackie Framm : Did you know that Buddy could do that? Did you know that Buddy could play basketball?

  Principal Pepper : [chuckling]  There he is! Oh, the man of the hour! And the dog! I swear, I wouldn't have believed it, if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes! A basketball-playing dog! A regular Michael "Woof" Jordan! You've been keeping this under your hats! Oh, I'm going off like a faucet. Melissa, this is Mrs. Framm... and her talented son, Josh.

  Melissa : Hi.

  Josh Framm : Hi.

  Melissa : I'm the president, of the Booster Club and wondered if you and...

  Josh Framm : Buddy.

  Melissa : Buddy could do that trick, at the next half-time show.

  Principal Pepper : Wouldn't he be a great mascot?

  Josh Framm : [Buddy leaves them, going back to the gymnasium, having overheard Coach Barker shouting at and mistreating Timberwolf Tom Stewart]  Buddy? Buddy!

  Coach Barker : You're never going to drop another ball, Stewart!

  [starts throwing a group of basketballs at Tom Stewart too hard and too fast for him to successfully catch any of them, to vent out his anger] 

  Principal Pepper : [opens the gymnasium door]  What's going on here?

  Coach Barker : Just running Tom through a little drill.

  Principal Pepper : That'll be enough, Joe. That will be enough.

  Josh Framm : [Josh pets Buddy's head at gymnasium door]  Good boy!

• Referee #1 : Does he dribble?

  Arthur Chaney : No, but he might drool a little bit.