After a 16-year-old timid African American math genius loses his mother, he must overcome his pushy, well-meaning father, peer pressure, and self-doubt to realign with his gift of basketball and break a generational pattern to create the legacy he wants.

SYNOPSIS:

In Act 1, we meet 10-year-old Devin Jackson, an African American math genius and 5th-generation Jackson who falls in love with basketball after watching Demetri, a promising African American basketball player. That day, in Savannah, Georgia Devin professes his career choice to his father, Jack Jackson, the owner of Jackson and Jackson, LLC, an insurance company created by his great-great-grandfather, a formerly enslaved person. Six years later, Devin is a junior, and it's basketball tryouts. But Jack tells Devin the working theme of the story: our hobbies can never be a source of real work. Despite his father’s desire to join the family business and growing opposition from Rickie, a jealous classmate, Devin not only tries out but lands a starting position on his high school basketball team. Unfortunately, Devin's hard work pays off the same day his mother, Devin’s biggest fan, dies of a fatal blood clot in her lungs, a consequence of her sickle cell anemia. As a result of his mother’s death, Devin struggles to align with his gift and gets suspended from school for fighting Rickie.

In Act 2, Devin works for the family’s business during his suspension and connects with Alex. But when his father tells everyone at the family business about Devin’s career path without discussing it with his son, it opens a door for Demetri’s influence, a former high school basketball superstar turned drug dealer who ignited Devin’s passion for playing ball in the first place.

In Act 3, Devin’s anger towards his struggle and father pushes him closer to Demetri. But this connection almost costs Devin his life when Demetri forces him to participate in a gang revolt.