Teikou Middle School is famous for its highly renowned basketball team, which produced the famed "Generation of Miracles": a team of five prodigies, each with their own unique abilities, considered to be undefeatable by the time they became third years. However, blinded by pride, they split up, entering different high schools upon graduation.

Taiga Kagami, having just returned from America, joins the basketball team at Seirin High School in search of strong team members. There, he finds Tetsuya Kuroko, a seemingly unimpressive player, only for Kagami to find out that Kuroko was the "Phantom Sixth Man" of the Generation of Miracles: an invisible player who used his impeccable passing skills to support the team from the shadows. Together, they resolve to defeat the Generation of Miracles and make the Seirin basketball team the best in Japan.

Kuroko no Basket ranked sixth place in the 2012 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the male readers category.

The series was published in English as Kuroko's Basketball by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint in 2-in-1 omnibuses from August 2, 2016 to December 4, 2018. It was published in Spanish by Ivrea España from October 2015 to October 7, 2019, and in Polish by Waneko from December 15, 2014 to July 30, 2018, and in French by Kazé from January 18, 2012 to November 9, 2016.