Marcus puts basketball first, but when he hears that the winner of the math contest will meet a basketball superstar, he needs to change priorities—fast!
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Seventeen-year-old Greg "Slam" Harris thinks that basketball is his ticket out of Harlem, but first he must come to terms with many difficult realities of his life.
