Overview

The Bottom - The Rise and Fall of a Basketball Star. The game, the love, the dream, and the journey.Approaching the new millennium; Micah "Mike" Postell, a former basketball star with a troubled past and unclear future, returns to Bartrum A&M, a small town college, after a two-year absence. He previously left the university and was forced to return to the ghetto in Philadelphia to take care of his ailing grandmother. Mike decides to make another attempt to get his life back on track and possibly play basketball again. Upon arriving on campus, he is looked upon by the whole community as being the key for A&M to reach its goal of making it to the Big Tourney, a post-season college basketball tournament, for the first time in the school's 105-year history. But he is met with a roller coaster ride of events that include academic troubles, jealousy, fights, love, and tragedy.