A captain of the New York Knicks and six-time NBA All-Star describes events from his childhood that inspired his athletic career, describing how he used his basketball skills to defend his friends from a group of bullies and overcame difficult obstacles to achieve his professional ambitions.

Elle begins to question whether basketball is worth the time and effort she is putting in, and who she would be if not a basketball star.

Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when a teammate accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.

Hanamichi Sakuragi never has any luck asking out the girls at school until Haruko becomes interested in him, but he must join the basketball team in order to impress her.

Between sports, school, and working for his father, eleven-year-old Amar'e's life is full and he is not yet ready to concentrate on basketball--but when a group of older boys start hogging the local basketball court he knows that he has to do something to help his friends.

When Jo unexpectedly makes the school basketball team, she's unsure how to handle her responsibility to take care of her younger brother after school. Knowing her mother will make her quit the team, she hatches a plan to have a neighbor care for her brother in secret while she practices, but soon the stress of keeping her secret begins to take its toll.

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.

When Scott wakes up with a small bite on his arm, he blames his dog--until he finds himself invited to join a game of pick-up basketball under the full moon by a group of werewolves.

When Overtime Tanner gets hurt in a basketball game it falls to Amar'e and his friends to set up this year's ultimate streetball tournament. Quickly Amar'e is asked by his friends to play on their different teams and he is torn between them--he realizes that planning a tournament is harder than just playing ball.

After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.