Realizing that she’ll never be able to compete with the male partners until she can beat them at their own game, Ali announces her intention to sign leading NBA draft pick Jamal Barry (Shane Paul McGhie), a player typically tantalizingly beyond her reach.Īli’s very public professional humiliation takes place at a senior management meeting in a scene that encapsulates many of the movie’s intersecting themes of gender, race and power politics. Seeing as she hasn’t signed any male athletes from the big three NFL, MLB or NBA leagues, Summit CEO Nick Ivers (Brian Bosworth) deems Ali unworthy, instead conferring the company’s newest partnership on her younger colleague Eddie (Chris Witaske). As the company’s only senior female agent, she’s worked harder than her male counterparts to bring in the clients and now expects to be rewarded.
But for Ali Davis (Henson), who’s had to struggle mightily just to pull together a lineup of top female Olympians for Summit Worldwide Management’s roster, earning professional respect is more a matter of fairness. Life wouldn’t seem so bad if you’re a top sports agent in a city like Atlanta that takes its pro teams super seriously.
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