Basketball god Lu Xiao retired for three years, but quietly returned when the national team was on the verge of collapse. Qin Xiao, a young genius who was once redeemed by him, is now struggling to survive with his shadow on his back; the cold-blooded naturalized player Han Xiao regards him as a stain; team doctor Bai Yu hides a fatal secret; and the silent Lao Ma guards the original secret skills that can subvert modern basketball.
Lu Xiao's return to the team caused an uproar across the Internet. Qin Xiao repeatedly lost control during training, revealing his deep fear of 'imitating Lu Xiao'; Han Xiao deliberately injured someone in a critical warm-up match, triggering the recurrence of Lu Xiao's old injury, and Bai Yu's abnormal drug test was exposed by the media. Chen Yan secretly launched the "Dawn Project" and used Lao Ma's primitive training methods to rebuild Lu Xiao's body, but was pressured by the General Administration of Sports. When Lu Xiao was sparring with Lao Ma on the street court, he recreated for the first time the 'shadow step' that had not been made public thirty years ago, awakening the forgotten philosophy of street basketball. After Qin Xiao witnessed it, he gave up relying on data and began to play at his own pace. The two reached a brief reconciliation on the court in the early morning when no one knew about it. In order to clear his father's name, Han Xiao secretly provided the opponent's tactical drawings, but was silenced by the mastermind behind the scenes. On the eve of the final selection, Bai Yu submitted complete evidence of the misdiagnosis and surrendered to jail, but in exchange, Lu Xiao was allowed to compete in a special capacity. The national team reached the finals of the World Championships. Facing the Eastern European legion that was known as the "unsolvable zone defense", Lu Xiao used Lao Ma's rhythm as the axis, Qin Xiao as the spear, and Han Xiao's defection as the shield, and used a "reverse shadow three-pointer" that no one could guard against to win the championship. After the game, Lu Xiao smashed the FMVP trophy in front of Lao Ma's door, turned around and left - he knew that real basketball had just stood up from the ruins.
