The White Shadow

The White Shadow is the CBS drama series that follows Ken Reeves (Ken Howard), a professional basketball player in the NBA, who is forced to retire when he sustains a serious knee injury. Reeves was drafted by the Chicago Bulls, but his dreams of glory are shattered when he is injured. Fortunately an old friend and college roommate Jim Willis (Jason Bernard and later Ed Bernard) offers him a job as a basketball coach at the school where he is principal. The vice principal Sybil Buchanan (Joan Pringle) is against Reeves being hired but to her dismay, he takes the job. Reeves becomes coach of the Carver High School team, in an inner-city and working-class neighborhood. The team not only lacks skills on the court, but also lacks self-confidence off the court. Reeves becomes determined to turn them around, helping them with issues like drugs, gangs, racial hostility and financial dilemmas. Reeves did everything he could to steer them in the right direction in life, offering advice and intervention as well as encouraging them on the court. Join Ken Reeves as he takes on his new challenge as a basketball coach in the CBS series The White Shadow. MORE