This coming of age story features a mediocre high school basketball player (Dempsey Pappion) who is given a pair of magical basketball shoes by a stranger (Gregory Hines) and he quickly becomes a superstar shooter on his team. He is recruited by college basketball scouts and plans his future in college basketball as he neglects potential academic scholarship possibilities.
Before he was born, Laue's umbilical cord wrapped around his neck in the womb. To save his own life, Laue used his arm to protect his neck. Lack of circulation to the arm caused him to be born with an arm that ended just below the elbow. Kevin’s father died when he was in middle school. A former athlete and youth coach, his father had difficulty accepting Kevin’s disability. The will to carry on for his family and make his father proud drove Kevin to follow his own path of success by playing extraordinary basketball.
La vie roule pour Kyle Johnson : son équipe de basket est en finale, toutes les filles sont folles de lui et sa chance ne le quitte jamais, au point même de trouver régulièrement un billet par terre !
Lamont Carr, ancienne vedette de basket universitaire, décroche le poste d'entraineur dans une école juive ; contre toute attente, ses élèves voient en lui l'incarnation d'un personnage biblique...
Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird were rivals on the basketball court but unlikely friends off of it. After Johnson's team won in the 1979 NCAA championship game, Johnson would be drafted first in the 1980 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers, while Bird would go to the Boston Celtics at the #3 spot. Bird captured "Rookie of the Year" in 1980, while Johnson's Lakers won the NBA Championship and Johnson was named NBA Finals MVP. The Celtics took the championship in 1981, the Lakers took it back in 1982. The Celtics would win again in 1984, while the Lakers would win the title in both 1985 and 1987. The careers of both men were cut short, Johnson by his diagnosis with HIV and Bird by a debilitating back injury.
L'histoire du grand joueur de basket « Pistol » Pete Maravich quand il avait 13/14 ans (Eight grade). Il joue dans l'équipe de basket du lycée Daniel mais rencontre des difficultés à cause de sa façon de jouer. Le seul soutient qu'il a lui vient de son père, l'ancien joueur pro de basketball, Press Maravich.
Red V. Blue is a documentary about the instate rivalry between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, the two most prominent universities in the state of Kentucky. The universities are located in the state's two largest cities, respectively the second-largest city of Lexington and the largest city, Louisville, and are separated by 75 miles of Interstate 64. But this is the least of their differences.
Byron Harper operates a non-profit farming system on a playground in the Cabrini Green neighborhood of Chicago with the aim of landing black kids into college basketball programs. He focuses most of his energy on the best prospects, whom he calls his Breds, and ignores the less talented ones. One day, burn-out white lawyer Zack Telander shows up on the playground, willing to play, but Byron believes him to be a drug pusher and throws him out. However, just then one of the Breds is being shot, and Zack happens to be the only one on the spot with a car, so he helps Byron to rush the victim into a hospital, where he also threatens the clerk with a gross negligence lawsuit in case treatment would not be provided.
Gérant d'un restaurant parisien, Roland Verdi est atteint par la maladie d'Alzheimer. Sa famille est aux petits soins avec lui, sauf son petit-fils, J.B., qui n'a qu'un seul but : jouer sa finale de basket-ball à Paris. Mais les parents de J.B., bloqués ce week-end, lui demandent de surveiller son grand-père. Dès lors, rien ne va se passer comme prévu car J.B. va entraîner Roland avec lui dans son voyage.