Kirby Nickel, interested in every facet of basketball--except actually playing the game, takes a chance and tries out for the team in order to get the opportunity to meet Brett McGrew, an NBA star who might be his father.
Uncoordinated Kansas seventh-grader Kirby Nickel braves his coach's ire and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he has never known.
