All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with important life decisions and their consequences.

Thomas Gomez
as Coach Abe Saperstein

Dorothy Dandridge
as Ann Carpenter

Bill Walker
as Prof. Turner

Angela Clarke
as Sylvia Saperstein

Peter M. Thompson
as Martin

Billy Brown
as Billy Townsend (Globetrotter)

Roscoe Cumberland
as Roscoe - Globetrotter

William 'Pop' Gates
as 'Pop' Gates - Globetrotter

Marques Haynes
as Marques - Globetrotter

Louis 'Babe' Pressley
as 'Babe' Pressley - Globetrotter