John Stamos Was Worried About Playing a Basketball Coach on ‘Big Shot’: ‘I Was a Band Geek’

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Stepping out of his comfort zone. John Stamos was very surprised when he got the call to take on the role of high school basketball coach Marv Korn in Disney Plus’s Big Shot.“I know nothing about basketball, nothing about high school sports.

I was a band geek,” Stamos, 57, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting the new series, noting that he was excited when hearing he was getting an offer to work with creator David E.

Kelley. “I said, ‘Oh, I play a lawyer? Is it like Big Little Lies?’​​ He’s like, ‘No it’s about basketball.’ I was like, ‘Oh no.

I know nothing about it.’ But I dug in because I thought, if I don’t pull this guy off, then there’s no show!”​​In the series, he portrays a former NCAA coach who was fired after losing his