The basketball team is an very extraordinary sports teams, because it is the only team that is able to attract so many non-teammates to join their regular practices.
People usually say it is the unity that counts.
Within the team, players all get proper coaching and enough caring from team caps, coaches and other teammates. Perhaps this is also the reason why players are willing to spend so much time on the court, practising, sweating. You know, winning may not always be the most memorable event. In the case of this basketball team, the one thing that is worth to recall and get excited and touched is when they lost the match just by one point. They recall after the match, they all cried badly while each still gave comforts to the others.