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As fans saw in Never Say Never, Justin Bieber has got mad game. Seriously yo, he can dish that rock to the hole with the best of them.

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But even still, the biggest Beliebers couldn't believe it when Mark Wahlberg revealed that he'd hand-picked the singer to star in a new basketball-themed movie he was producing and starring in.

"I'm pretty intuitive," Mark recently told MTV about his decision to put the pop star in a feature film. "I see the guy and spent time with him, and you see what he does and how he does it, and then you actually have a conversation with him, and it's there. Wait till you see me and Bieber in the flick."

As for the movie itself, Mark describes it as Color of Money-esque. Although realizing Paramount wanted him for the "old guy" role did come as a shock to the former ingenue.

"So I get this call from Paramount [with a story about] an old guy and a young guy. I'm like, 'Cool, let's get Jack [Nicholson]. Let's get Robert De Niro. Let's get Robert Duvall.' And they go, 'What about Garrett Hedlund?' I'm like, 'For what?' " he further recalled. "They're like, 'For the young guy.' "