Fast Break starts with Gabe Kaplan, of Welcome Back, Kotter fame, as David Greene. When the film starts, Greene is playing pick up ball in Brooklyn before hitting the bar with a bunch of young players. In the midst of their conversation, he breaks down their game and explains Bob Cousy to them.

On a lark, David is offered a coaching job of a newly formed men’s basketball team at Cadwallader University. The school, more of a sham than anything, offers Greene $50 per win and the promise of a $30,000 a year contract for three years if he is able to beat Nevada State, a top ten school.

Greene begins by gathering a ragtag group of New York street ballers who will get “scholarships” to attend Cadwallader. The team includes Hustler, played by Hall of Fame Bernard King, Preacher, played by two-t

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