A passionate but incompetent basketball coach learns that only the four best teams in his league will be carried over to a new division. So to stop his team languishing at the bottom of the heap, he recruits an ageing star player to turn their fortunes around. Seventies-set comedy, starring Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson and Andre Benjamin.

Jackie Moon is the owner, promoter, coach, and star player of the Flint Michigan Tropics of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the worst team in the league. In 1976 before the ABA collapses, the NBA plans to merge with the best teams of the ABA at the end of the season. Only the top four teams will make the move and the worst teams will fold. If the Tropics want to make it to the NBA, Jackie Moon must rally his team and start winning.