Lionel Shephard dreams of joining the NBA, but while his father disapproves of his plans, his teachers are threatening to fail him--unaware of his poor reading abilities--and Lionel needs to decide how far he is willing to go for his dreams.
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
After tryouts for the school basketball team, eighth graders Zeke, Eli, Ryan, and Miles find their friendship tested when two of them make the team and two of them do not. Includes facts about Michael Jordan and Bill Russell.
The Bayport Bombers are headed to the championship basketball game, but somebody wants to knock them out of contention by getting Frank and Joe Hardy out of the way.
Patrice, a skilled basketball player whose mother is an alcoholic, does not feel like she has anyone she can trust after Deena bullies her and keeps her from sitting with Akil, Marcel, and Tre, but Akil shows Patrice that she can count on him.
Dramatizes the true story of Coach Don Haskins of Texas Western University who, in the 1965-66 season, bucked convention and consequences to introduce the first all-African-American starting lineup in the history of college basketball.
