With his pro career ended due to a knee injury, Ken Reeves is offered a chance to coach an innner city high school basketball team.
Coach Reeves needs help when he discovers that Jackson has a drinking probelm and refuses to get help.
A newswoman tempts Reeves with the offer to do a sport commentary job.
Coolidge wins the Most Valuable Player trophy after the team loses in a tournament and a sports agent uses a girl to get Coolidge to help with his career.
Reese's chance at college is up in the air after learning that his girlfriend is expecting his baby. The others learn about it when Thorpe tells everybody.
After getting a young hot shot basketball player to enroll at Carver, Reeves now has to deal with the baggage that he brings with him.
Gomez is taken off the team for his low grades and considers returning to the Aztecs, his old street gang.
A new transfer to Carver's basketball carries the rumor that he is homosexual.
A plane trip to a basketball tournament is overshadowed with the plane's mechanical troubles.
While in Las Vegas for a basketball tournament, Morris takes bets from school to win money gambling at night.
Coach Reeves punches a boy out in self defense.
Coach Reeves tries to using boxing to help Salami after he gets into a bar fight.
An autistic boy is placed on the team as part of a new mainstream program.
The team try to help Goldstein after his grandparents are placed in the hospital.
Morris has a trouble as he develop feelings for a white girl with a reputation.
Harold, the school reporter, joins the team to do a series of stories for the paper. He soon discovers that one of the members is placing bets on the team.
A former student returns from prison and his accusations of racism splits the team apart.
A crosstown rival tries to lure Reese into leaving Carver for his school.
A freshman that Reeves fought for to join the team dies during practice to an illness he never knew about.
Coach Reeves begins to realize that his basketball career is really over and must move on.
Coolidge's apartment burns down and Reeves offers to let Coolidge stay with him.
The team is on a winning streak and egos flair to the point that Reeves gets the Harlem Globetrotters to help.
Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease from a former girlfriend, who is now Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.
Haywood is out to get a drug dealer that gave his cousin a fatal does of heroin.
A basketball star transfers to Carver, much to Coach Reeves delight. However that delight ends when it's discovered that he can't read.
Jackson's old girlfriend, Dolores, returns and wants to marry him. However she is hiding a secret from him about her job.
Coach Reeves faces Christmas alone, while the team gets ready for a holiday party.
Coach Reeves tries to help his players get painkillers.
Thorpe's love of art is tearing his family aprat as his father sees basketball as the only way out of the ghetto.
Salami get tutoring in history with a tutor that has other plans for him.
Coach Reeves faces racism at a country club that doesn't allow blacks.
Coach Reeves's girlfriend is a stripper.
Reeves and a police officer go in search of the drug dealer selling drugs to students.
Coach Reeves becomes the Athletic Director and now deals with the baseball coach that wanted the same postition.
A Soviet Union basketabll player wants to defect to the United States with the team's help.
Coach Reeves helps a boy named Go-Go after discovering he is abused at home.
The team faces a tragedy as they qualify for the city championship game.
A TV director wants Coolidge for a new series about black students.
The school year ends and Reeves and the team makes plans for the summer.
Coach Reeves heals his strained relationship with his dying father, breaks things off once and for all with Paula, and returns to Carver for the new school year, where some new players have joined the team: Wardell Stone, Mitchell, Rutherford, Paddy Falahey, and Eddie Franklin
Coach Reeves heals his strained relationship with his dying father, breaks things off once and for all with Paula, and returns to Carver for the new school year, where some new players have joined the team: Wardell Stone, Mitchell, Rutherford, Paddy Falahey, and Eddie Franklin
Coolidge is tired of school and wants to join the Harlem Globetrotters.
In order to raise money for Carver's athletics, the team decides to organize a benefit. However, they publicize that Coach Reeves is dead in order to entice major sports and entertainment figures like Sparky Anderson, Elgin Baylor, and Willie Tyler and Lester to attend.
Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on court brawl.
The team decides to get a record deal to take advantage of their shower singing skills, while Reeves mulls an offer to do a TV commercial.
Stone saves an elderly woman's life by rescuing her from a burning car, and the experience goes to his head after he appears on the TV news and sensationalizes the story.
Coolidge starts having problems stemming from his abnormal height and size, such as normal clothes not fitting. He gets self-conscious and defensive until Coach Reeves, who has dealt with the same problems, takes him under his wing and tries to let him know he's not alone.
Coach Reeves lies to get out of jury duty and it backfires in his face when Franklin lies to get out of practice.
Salami and Vitaglia take on a part-time job reposessing cars, but the ungodly work hours and the harassments from the car owners affect both their performances in school and on the basketball court.
Ms. Stanley needs the team's help when a psychotic student is after her.
Coolidge, Thorpe and Franklin are charged with robbing a woman based upon the description she provided the police. Things turn bad to worst when one of the officers assaults Thorpe.
One of Carver's teachers, Mr. Mackey, starts showing signs of burnout by handing out undeserved grades, and this hurts Rutherford, who enjoys the class.
Goldstein, Gomez, Hayward, and Reese all return for an "alumni" exhibition game, amid all the troubles the four have encountered in "real life" since graduating. Hayward is in college and wants to go to law school, but doesn't believe he'll be given the chance because of his skin color. Goldstein, after a year in the Marines, now believes he has the confidence to ask out a girl he admired while at Carver. Gomez is struggling to make ends meet as a car mechanic with a pregnant wife. And, finally, Reese is driving a cab and pursuing his dream of becoming a singer.