by Gabriel Rathweg
Humanity invented basketball — and ranks dead last at it in a galaxy that's played it for ten thousandyears. When the Concord arrives to absorb Earth unless it wins the Ascension Bracket, abenchmark-worst street-baller with the highest growth ceiling the System has ever logged is droppedinto a brutal global academy. To climb from #1,247 to #1 he and a team of Earth's last hopes mustbeat five alien races of perfected legends — the ringless greats, the Bad Boys, the Ancients, theMimics, and finally the King himself — by turning every human weakness the galaxy mocks into theone weapon no perfect species ever evolved
