The Crossover, based on the novel by Kwame Alexander, premieres on Disney Plus April 5. The show is about twins in middle school, J.B. and Josh, who are basketball standouts. Their father is a former NBA player with some health issues, and their mother is a no-nonsense school principal — at the boys’ school, no less.
Alexander’s novel, which came out in 2014, is full of poems that tell the story of the boys, their family and their hoops ambitions. Every word in the novel is part of a poem.
