One Tree Hill, Season 1

Nathan challenges Lucas to a nighttime one-on-one basketball game. If Nathan wins, Lucas must not join the team; if Lucas wins, Nathan will quit.

After failing in his first varsity basketball game, Lucas decides to quit the team.

After a particularly spectacular basketball game, Lucas quickly supplants Nathan as the team's most popular player.

Haley convinces Lucas to go with the team to a party at Nathan's beach house, hoping that the guys will become friendlier.

Lucas asks Keith to play with him in the annual "Father and Son" basketball game and realizes he got the better father figure after Dan publicly humiliates Nathan on the court.

When Whitey ejects Lucas and Nathan from the team bus due to their misconduct on the basketball court, the half-brothers are stranded 30 miles from home.

The night of Dan and Deb's (recurring guest star Barbara Alyn Woods) annual basketball appreciation party spurs old memories and new feelings.

Hoping to have fun, Brooke and Peyton attend a college party, but the situation gets bad when one of the guys, Gabe (Mike Erwin - "Everwood"), drugs Peyton.

After fighting with his father and Haley, Nathan succumbs to the pressure and takes amphetamines to help him play basketball better.

Lucas and Peyton try to redefine their friendship after Lucas chooses to be with her best friend, Brooke, who is unaware that Lucas and Peyton briefly dated.

Unable to cope with the pressure from Dan, Nathan quits the basketball team.

After Peyton receives the devastating news that her father is lost at sea, she and Lucas take an overnight trip to Hilton Head, South Carolina, to identify a body that has washed ashore.

On their way to drive Karen home from the airport, Keith and Lucas collide with an oncoming vehicle, leaving Lucas unconscious and fighting for his life.

While holding a vigil at Lucas' bedside as he lays in a coma, Karen meets Brooke, who is now dating Lucas, and learns from Deb that Deb and Dan are getting divorced.

After his near-death experience, Lucas decides he made the wrong choice in girlfriends.

Nathan must choose which parent to live with after Dan and Deb's divorce.

The gang hits the road to Charlotte, North Carolina, for a basketball game and an annual cheerleading competition that squad leader Brooke is determined to win.

Lucas, Nathan, their teammate Jake and the rest of the Raven basketball players are auctioned to the highest bidder in the annual "Boy Toy" charity auction.

Lucas must make a difficult decision regarding Brooke. Haley considers having sex with Nathan. Keith wants more from his relationship with Karen. And Dan tries to get runaway Nathan to return home.

While Nathan looks for an after-school job to pay his rent, Haley hosts a party at his apartment--but she panics when the situation gets out of control.

Lucas is shocked to learn that Dan once asked Karen for joint custody of him when he was a baby.

Lucas and Nathan bear the brunt of Dan's abuse as he coaches them into the playoffs, pushing both of them to their emotional breaking points.