After a timid teenager loses his biggest supporter, he begins to doubt he'll ever become a professional basketball player during a time he must also overcome traditional expectations and escalating peer pressure to create the legacy he desires. 

SYNOPSIS:

In Act 1, we meet 10-year-old Devin Jackson, a 5th-generation Jackson and African American math genius, who becomes interested in basketball after consistently watching Demetri, a promising African American basketball player, masterfully dominate the court. One day, in Savannah, Georgia, Devin professes to Jack Jackson, the owner of Jackson and Jackson, LLC, an insurance company founded by his great-grandfather, a formerly enslaved person, that he wants to be like Demetri. Six years later, Devin is a junior, and he’s worked all summer to finally secure a spot on his school’s basketball team. But on the day of tryouts, Jack tells Devin the working theme of the story: “Playing basketball is not the way to leave a strong foundational legacy.” However, his mother, his biggest fan, encourages Devin to follow his heart. Despite Jack’s desire for Devin to join the family business and the growing opposition from Rickie, a jealous classmate, Devin lands a starting spot on his high school basketball team. Unfortunately, the day Devin's dream comes true, his mother 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 agrees to help his father at the family business during his suspension and forms a connection with Alex, a cheerleader who also has a crush on him. Jack finally opens up to Devin about the fears that kept him from pursuing his dreams. But when Jack plans Devin’s career path without consulting him first, he pushes Devin toward Demetri, the one who inspired Devin initially, and is now a drug dealer. Devin finally gets the courage and refuses to help Demetri, which nearly costs him his career.