A man thinks of the small white woman whom he had romantic feelings for. She left him in May. To avoid his empty New York Apartment, he hangs out in Regent Park and observes the array of people who are also spending time there. Around the basketball court, he hears lots of stories. One pertains to a fellow called Doc. This story especially bothered the man. 

The story is first told to the man one day when one of the people on the court wonders how Doc is doing. Doc was a well known African-American man in the community. He eventually went to University to play ball and experienced a slew of microaggressions from local white people. He had played ball all of his life. One day he returned to the court and his vision was bad. He was blind. 

However, he continued to play ball and was as good as ever. He was often practicing during the night. He spent a majority of his time at the court. Sometimes on the weekend, fellows would joke around with Doc until one weekend the banter became more serious. Doc took a shot at the basket and a kid called Sky interrupted the shot and dunks the ball. Everyone thought Doc’s shot was going to miss anyways. Everyone cheers for Sky. Doc becomes upset and asks why Sky interrupted his shot. The court becomes tense and everyone is silent. Doc tells them to let it go and wants to begin playing again.

Doc asked who has got winners, referring to who is going to play the game on the winning team. Leyroy, a cold man, says that is him and that Doc may have a spot on his team. Doc says he is going to leave. Leyroy doesn’t know what he will do, now that he has a player who cannot see.

The group telling the story recounts how Doc did play at the game for the ‘winners’ and he held his own.

The man wonders if he had told this story about a blind Black man playing basketball, if the woman would have stayed with him. She was quite skeptical and that is what he loved about her. When the man told her about stories he read of African-Americans having magical powers during the period of slavery, she dismissed him. These stories talked about how African Americans may have power of white folk even though normal Black lives were dismissed by white people. 

One night when they were walking in Regent Park, he knew things would not work out between them. Before he was able to recognize what was happening, she had left his life. He wonders if she had heard the story perhaps she would have felt there may have been a chance or a hope of saving their relationship. However, he also wonders if she would have even believed the story anyways.