They meet at age 11, when she moves into the neighbourhood and he — mistaking her, at first, for a boy — lets her join a pickup basketball game. When she shakes out her hair and proceeds to kick his ass on the court, Quincy (played as a young man by Glenndon Chapman and as an adult by Omar Epps) knocks Monica (Kyla Pratt young, Sanaa Lathan as an adult) on her ass in frustration. She carries a scar on her jaw from the fight for the rest of the film. So it goes with love and basketball. Read more
