"From the start, the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in by a kindly aunt ... Joe finds his family in high school with the Fallcrest basketball team--the kind of team that comes around once in a lifetime ... All these kids want, all they dream of, is to make it to the Palestra, UPenn's cathedral of college basketball. Fast-forward thirty years ... Ever since selling the ad firm he built from the ground up for millions, [Joe's] been willing away his time teaching at a local business school and going to strip clubs ... But then he hears from Chris Scully, a former Fallcrest teammate who is now District Attorney. The Justice Department is sniffing around the deal that got Joe rich years ago--a deal he cut every member of the basketball team into--except for Scully"--