Since the age of nine, Sebastian Telfair has been a well known player on the basketball courts in his hometown of Brooklyn. Now entering his senior year of high school, Sebastian is determined to get his team, the Lincoln Railsplitters, to their third straight PSAL championship title. He is also faced with the decision to either attend The University of Louisville or make the jump from high school to the NBA in order to provide for his family and get them out of the projects of New York City. Telfair's environment also plays a big part in his life. He deals with a death and having the entire neighborhood depending on him to be next in the line of great New York point guards.
Clay Driscoll, a young coach from Louisiana with dreams of being the head coach of a successful boys basketball team, is hired by an Oklahoma superintendent to coach basketball. Driscoll immediately finds himself in conflict with the head of the school board, Ellis Brawley, who is also the great-great grandson of the town's founder, the owner of the bank, and the most influential man in the town. The superintendent did not ask Brawley about the hire, and now is off recovering from a medical condition. Brawley has hired another man to coach the schools' boy's basketball team, and has relegated newcomer Driscoll to the unenviable job of coaching the girl's team. Early 1960s Oklahoma is in the midst of a drought, and the school and town are facing economic distress. High school sports are an integral part of the town's fabric and pride, but girls' sports are an afterthought and receive little attention. The girls' team is more akin to a gym class than a basketball program. Clay is crushed by the news that the job he came for has gone to “someone more qualified”, and he sees no future in coaching the girls.
Après une tentative de suicide par défenestration, un homme nommé Roary apprend à vivre avec ses difformités. Au cours d'une promenade, il découvre un bar essentiellement fréquenté par des handicapes.
Le jeune Jesus Shuttlesworth est promis à un bel avenir dans le basket-ball. Lui et sa sœur ont dû se prendre en charge seuls, après que leur père Jake ait involontairement tué leur mère.
The film focuses on three African-American youths living in an urban neighborhood. Nathaniel Hamilton (Jamaal Wilkes formerly Keith Wilkes) is a star basketball player from the neighborhood, who also goes by the nickname of "Cornbread." In the movie, he epitomizes the dream of the neighborhood to be successful, as he is about to become the first from his district to enter college on an athletic scholarship. He is also a local hero to the much younger friends Earl Carter (Tierre Turner) and Wilford Robinson (Laurence Fishburne).
Basé sur une histoire vraie de Hank Recueille, un joueur de basket-ball de Loyola Marymount qui effondré et est mort lors d'un match. Hank est un enfant braillard Philly qui est l'un des meilleurs joueurs de basket-ball du secondaire dans la ville. Son rival se présente sous la forme de Bo Kimble, un athlète plus sérieux qui ne se soucie pas de comportement imprudent de Hank. Lorsque les deux joueurs sont recrutés par l'USC, ils deviennent finalement amis. Hank et Bo ne sont pas vraiment joué beaucoup l'équipe USC, et la tête de Loyola Marymount où les deux deviennent des sensations de collège.
Billy Hoyle et Sydney Deane, interprétés respectivement par Woody Harrelson et Wesley Snipes, s'associent pour participer à des duels de basket-ball urbain (match opposant deux équipes de deux joueurs sur une moitié de terrain). L'action du film débute sur les aires de jeux de Venice Beach en Californie et continue dans les quartiers des communautés noires de Los Angeles.
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.