Ricky Roe, from the 1994 movie Blue Chips, was played by Matt Nover.
The script for Blue Chips didn’t seem to mind the comparisons that its character Ricky Roe would have to Larry Bird. In fact, they went all in with it by making Ricky a blue chip prospect from French Lick, Indiana, and giving Bird an inexplicable cameo shooting jumpers at an outdoor court all by himself. We’re confident Larry never asked a college coach for $30,000 in cash to be delivered to him in a duffel bag, however.
As for the actor who portrayed Ricky Roe, Nover has no other acting credits on his resume, so he was essentially a one-and-done, if we’re using NCAA Tourney-speak. However, he was still a great basketball player in real life, and managed to play professionally in Europe for over a decade up until 2004. Today, he has given up sports and is currently a clinical sales representative at Intuitive Surgical. - Uproxx.com.
See complete cast and crew of Blue Chips on IMDb.com.
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