"Air Bud Returns" has found its Buddy.

After combing through more than 5,000 dogs, Robert Vince, writer and director of “Air Bud Returns," shared that two dogs have been cast for the role of the beloved basketball-playing canine.

"The search for the next Air Bud have been incredible. We couldn't just choose one," he said in a video shared on Air Bud TV's YouTube channel on Sept. 25. "The two winners, they are Summer from San Diego and Charlie from Ohio."

The video then showed clips of Summer and Charlie playing with a ball outside.

"Criteria that we used were, one, did the dog look like the original Air Bud — the stage presence, the personality of Buddy? And two, did it have some training? Did it have a base, a foundation that we could start from? And then finally, the ability to p

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