Movie: Above the Rim (1994)

Tagline: The Hardest Part Of Winning Is Choosing Sides.
Trivia: At the start when Shep awakes from the nightmare, you hear the intro to Tupac Shakur's "Pain" - "I Couldn't help but notice your pain" - "My pain?" - "It runs deep, share it with me!". This voice-over is from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).
Goofs: Continuity: During the final basketball game, when Shep makes a finger roll for a layup, his jersey and #15 are backwards.
"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. Written by <xDiezel21x@yahoo.com>"