Chauffeur Edwina "Eddie" Franklin (Whoopi Goldberg) is fanatical about the New York Knicks basketball team. After she wins a contest to be their honorary assistant coach, Eddie so impresses the team's owner (Frank Langella) that he fires the head coach, John Bailey (Dennis Farina), and replaces him with Eddie. She is instrumental in turning the floundering team around, just in time to make the playoffs. There, they will face the Charlotte Hornets -- now led by former Knicks coach Bailey.

Whoopi Goldberg as Edwina "Eddie" Franklin
Frank Langella as William "Wild Bill" Burgess
Dennis Farina as Coach John Bailey
Richard Jenkins as Carl Zimmer
Lisa Ann Walter as Claudine
John Benjamin Hickey as Joe Nader
John Salley as Nate Wilson
Mark Jackson as Darren "Preachor" Taylor
Malik Sealy as Stacy Patton
Dwayne Schintzius as Ivan Radovadovitch
Rick Fox as Terry Hastings
Greg Ostertag as Joe Sparks
Vernel Singleton as Jamal Duncan
John DiMaggio as The construction worker