Woody Harrelson plays Monix, a former benchwarmer for the Boston Celtics who is acquired by the Flint Tropics in a trade for a washing machine. “I have a championship ring from my days on the Celtics, but I’ve been dropped down to the ABA and playing for the Kentucky Colonels,” says Harrelson. “I get the golden opportunity to come to Flint, Michigan and play for the Tropics. That’s my character’s trajectory.” Woody Harrelson (Monix) An accomplished actor in film, television and on the stage, Woody Harrelson has received Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Nominations as Best Actor for his critically-acclaimed portrayal of controversial magazine publisher Larry Flynt in Milos Forman’s drama, The People vs. Larry Flynt. Harrelson will be seen in the 2008 films The Grand, an ensemble comedy for director Zak Penn, and Battle in Seattle, directed by Stuart Townsand, as well as Transsiberian, directed by Brad Anderson and co-starring Emily Mortimer and Kate Mara. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Harrelson can currently be seen in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, a film that has garnered much attention with multiple Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Past credits include: After the Sunset, Play It To The Bone, The Thin Red Line, The Hi-Lo County, ED TV, Wag The Dog, Welcome To Sarajevo, Kingpin, Natural Born Killers, Indecent Proposal, White Men Can’t Jump, The Big White, A Scanner Darkly, North Country, The Prize Winner …