In 1976, Jackie Moon is a singer who used the profits from his one-hit wonder, "Love Me Sexy," to buy a basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Flint, Michigan Tropics, becoming the owner, head coach, and starting Power forward (basketball). The ABA Commissioner announces a plan to ABA-NBA merger with the National Basketball Association (NBA), but only four teams will move to the more established league. The Tropics, the worst team in the league, are in danger of dissolving. Jackie argues that the teams with the four best records should be merged and the Commissioner accepts.