It is now basketball season and Ben McBain and his friends are ready to play and win. However, there is a new kid in town, Chris Braggs, who is a hot shot point guard, just like Ben. Ben has a new rival now, however, how will that affect his game and his team.

Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.

After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.