Chapters 11 and 12 Summary

Walking back to the camp, Danny worries that Coach Powers is right, and perhaps he is the first adult to be honest with him about his skills and potential. He has never quit anything, but he's thinking about it now.

Danny comes up with a secret plan to get out of Right Way. He begins by working harder than anyone at the next day's practice. He out-hustles all the other players, retrieves loose balls for the coach, and is clearly putting his whole heart into basketball. Eventually he gets an opportunity to set up a situation that ends with Rasheed slamming into him and knocking him hard to the floor. Danny grabs his knee, which is still swollen from his previous injury, and is taken to the camp's infirmary. The doctor x-rays his knee and says he can't find anything wrong...