在这部霹雳硬小子犯罪/剧情/运动片中,卡尔是天才型球员，希望能打NBA的球队，前程似锦的他，因朋友引诱，加入帮派拥有的球队，学校的警卫汤姆不忍见他误入歧途，开导卡尔，与他并肩对抗黑道，后来谢普被帮派枪击，但他的努力并没白费，卡尔终于被大学篮球队吸收，并崭露头角，踏出迈向NBA的第一步。
Story of Kyle-Lee Watson, a promising high school basketball star, and his relationships with Birdie, a powerful drug dealer, and Birdie's brother, Thomas 'Shep' Sheppard, himself once a promising high school star at Kyle's school, now employed as a security guard.
