Big3 - 2.0

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July 2022
Ice Cube and Colin Kaepernick Reveal 'New Look' Big 3
--Los Angeles--

Big 3 founder Ice Cube announced Colin Kaepernick's significant investment into the Big3 early this year, and now the pair have revealed a complete revamp of the 3v3 basketball league. International travel firm, Omega World Travel have purchased a significant stake in the league and the nature of the traveling league is being retooled.

With Omega as a new partner, the Big3 is now targeting vacation and resort towns with a live event model which encourages a 'several day experience' surrounding the game. Players will meet with fans and join in banquet dinners while also running small one-day afternoon and morning camps for kids. The league is targeting, mostly, resort towns and tourist destinations which fit tightly with the vacation package experience.

As for the actual games, the now 11-team Big3 will play twice a week from the end of July through the beginning of September with a caravan style schedule which will play games in a different host city each week. The eleven teams have all been re-branded in the standard city-nickname convention and each of the 11 cities will host two sets of games in a season. Hosting teams will receive a game off in each of the weeks following their hosting week to off-set the odd number of teams. Each team plays every other team twice for a total of 20 games.

The television experience should remain largely the same, with games televised on FS1 and FS2 with the occasional game on FX and FXX. The league is bringing its own broadcast and camera crews. Arenas have not yet been announced, but it's said the league is looking for short term rentals as opposed to longer commitments, so arenas may change from trip to trip. Ice Cube said he would love to see the Big3 play games on blacktops.

Ice Cube and Kaepernick called the partnership with Omega, 'a no-brainer' and claimed to be inspired by the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces and Connecticut Sun who are each owned by events companies. The league has completed an internal leaguewide draft to revamp rosters, all players have agreed to three-year commitments.

League rules remain, largely, the same. The win by two rule has been removed, the score target has been raised to 60. Roster rules have been adjusted upward again, this time to a minimum age of 30. All-existing Big3 players under 30 are grandfathered in, but players without Big3 years-of-service must be a minimum of 30 years old to enter the league.

The teams and their players are below:

Aspen Slopes - Head Coach: Rick Fox
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
8	Michael Beasley	F	33	6'9"	240
15	Mario Chalmers	G	36	6'3"	195
4	Brandon Rush	G/F	37	6'6"	220
21	Arinze Onuaku	C	35	6'9"	285
7	Alex Scales	G/F	44	6'4:	194

Boca Ballers - Head Coach: Rick Barry
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
7	Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf	G	53	6'1"	165
9	Rashard Lewis	F	43	6'10"	245
17	Jonathon Simmons	F	32	6'4"	195
11	Abdoulaye N'Doye	G	22	6'6"	205

Coronado Sailors - Head Coach: Matt Barnes
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
3	Ty Lawson	G	34	5'11"	185
19	Leandro Barbosa	G	39	6'3"	194
25	Dondon Hontiveros	G	45	6'1"	170
23	Kuran Iverson	C	30	6'10"	275
45	Will McDonald	C	42	6'11"	295

Harpers Ferry Trek - Head Coach: Nancy Lieberman
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
88	Mike Taylor	G	36	6'1"	185
1	Jermaine Taylor	G	36	6'4"	215
3	Chris Johnson	C	37	6'11"	275
23	Darnell Jackson	C	36	6'9"	288
14	Chukwudiebere Maduabum	F	31	6'9"	205

Norfolk Sunshine - Head Coach: Lisa Leslie
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
6	Franklin Session	G	33	6'2"	175
21	Josh Powell	F/C	39	6'9"	240
31	Darko Miličić	C	37	7'0"	255
24	Sasha Kaun	C	37	6'11"	267
0	Dominique Johnson	G	35	6'4"	195

Oahu Waves - Head Coach: David Blatt
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
14	Glen Rice Jr.	G/F	31	6'6"	206
6	T.J. Cline	F/C	28	6'9"	230
5	Cuttino Mobley	G/F	46	6'4"	215
9	Nikoloz Tskitishvili	C	39	7'0"	300
30	Royce White	C	31	6'9"	280

Pebble Beach Swing - Head Coach: George Gervin
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
23	Jason Richardson	G	41	6'6"	240
35	DaJuan Summers	F	34	6'8"	250
22	Garlon Green	F	31	6'7"	222
54	Larry Sanders	C	33	6'11"	235
7	Ray Nixon	F	37	6'8"	220

Phoenix Heaters - Head Coach: Raja Bell
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
15	Amir Johnson	C	35	6'9"	265
5	Earl Clark	F/C	34	6'9"	240
11	Gary Payton Sr.	G	54	6'4"	215
34	David Hawkins	G	39	6'4"	230
8	James White	F	39	6'7"	235

Sin City Slashers - Head Coach: Allen Iverson
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
11	Dušan Bulut	G	36	6'3"	210
32	Perry Petty	G	34	6'1"	190
52	Greg Oden	C	34	7'0"	280
23	Deshawn Stephens	C	32	6'8"	225
92	Moochie Norris	G	49	6'0"	175

Stowe Snow - Head Coach: Mugsy Bogues
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
13	Corey Brewer	F	36	6'9"	190
6	Ike Diogu	F	38	6'9"	260
22	Sek Henry	G	35	6'4"	198
27	Jordan Crawford	G	33	6'5"	195
19	Jeff Ayres	C	35	6'10"	240

Toledo Lakers - Head Coach: Rashaad Powell
#	NAME	POS	AGE	HT	WT	SALARY
1	Joe Johnson	F	41	6'7"	242
2	Jannero Pargo	G	41	6'0"	190
3	Jeremy Pargo	G	36	6'2"	220
33	Alonzo Gee	G/F	35	6'6"	220
5	Sergerio Gipson	G/F	42	6'4"	196

OOC: I created a league file to run this in BasketballGM. I'm controlling the Norfolk Sunshine but this will mostly just follow the entire league

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Sunshine Sign Sullinger



July 2022
--Norfolk--

With league scrimmages and camps winding down, the Norfolk Sunshine make the first transaction of the fledgling Big3 2.0 season. Norfolk adds former Boston Celtic, Jared Sullinger. Sullinger was last in the NBA in 2017 with the Toronto Raptors but has since carved out a career in Asia. Spending the last few seasons with the Shenzhen Aviators, Sullinger had been one of the CBA's best players averaging 30 points on 50% from the floor in his first two seasons. Sullinger was also the best player for Anyang KGC, winners o the 2021 Korean Basketball League championship.

Sullinger's return to professional basketball in North America with the Norfolk Sunshine was welcomed by head coach Lisa Leslie. "We're in the business of winning basketball games, and Jared will help us do that." When asked if Sullinger figures to be a starter in the first game of the year Leslie said, "We'll have to see. We liked what we saw in the workouts, but no decisions have been made yet on the starting lineup."

The Sunshine face the Waves in the league's kickoff in Oahu at the end of the month.

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Glen Rice Jr. Dominates Norfolk; Round 1 Wrap-Up

July 2022
--Oahu--

The first round of Big3 matchups is complete for the year with Glen Rice Jr. stealing the show versus Norfolk. The 2018 Israeli Cup MVP accounted for 34 of the hometown Wave's 60 points in their 10 point win over the Sunshine. Rice was an outstanding 10 of 20 including 8 of 17 from downtown. Team captain Cuttino Mobley chipped in 14 with 4 three pointers of his own to move the hometown Waves to 1-0.

Norfolk struggled down the stretch despite keeping this interesting most of the way. Guard Franklin Session led the team with 28 points on 8 three pointers of his own, hardly taking a seat throughout. Debutant Jared Sullinger, had a hard time in his minutes. Getting the start alongside Session and Miličić, Sullinger struggled, going just 4 for 14 from the floor and picking up five personal fouls.

"That's just not the way we want to play. Fouling like that just handed them the game." said coach Lisa Leslie. And she isn't wrong. The Waves went 12 of 17 from the line, in large part thanks to Sullinger's persistent fouling. The Sunshine also had double the Waves turnovers (7 to 3) ensuring that it would be that much harder to come out on top in the race to 60.

It's game one of a long season, and the Sunshine will certainly look to even the score in their second matchup with the Waves later this year.



Round 1 Wrap-Up
Dušan Bulut explodes for 36 points as the Sin City Slashers down the Phoenix Heaters 62-45. Gary Payton Sr. went 4 of 13 from the field in a sluggish performance

Sek Henry left the game early with a groin injury in the Stowe Snow's 62-43 defeat to the Boca Ballers. All three Boca starters eclipsed 15 points (Adul-Rauf, Simmons, Lewis).

Sailors start three guards against Harpers Ferry, and win 60-37. Leandro Barbosa led the team with 28, Ty Lawson next with 18 and Filipino Senator Dondon Hontiveros brought in 8. Mike Taylor scored 18 on an efficient 7 of 13 for the Trek, but Jermaine Taylor's scoreless 15 minute shift ultimately torpedoes the Trek's chances of remaining competitive.

The Aspen Slopes had somewhere to be in a hurry as they notched the biggest margin of victory this week at 62-35 over the Pebble Beach Swing. The game ended in under twenty minutes, with star forward Michael Beasley scoring 32 points and snagging 8 boards. 15 a piece from fellow starters Brandon Rush and Mario Chalmers meant that not a single point was needed from the bench to secure the win. Jason Richardson's 16 points led the way for the Swing; he was the only Pebble Beach player in double figures.

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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf hits walkoff three pointer to defeat Toledo



Harpers Ferry enters the win column, delivers Sin City their first loss



Coronado rides all-guard starting lineup from bell-to-bell to stave off Slopes

[ZSmit88]

Re: Big3 - 2.0

This is a pretty interesting concept. Iso Joe is nasty.

[RolePlayer]

Re: Big3 - 2.0

This is really unique, I'm definitely tuned in.

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At the League's Halfway Mark, Iso Joe is King and Boca Ballers are Undefeated



With the season roughly halfway through, the Boca Ballers are top of the Big3 mountain. Sporting a perfect 10-0 record, the league's Floridian outfit is the team to beat. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Rashard Lewis boast unfathomable three point percentages while Jonathon Simmons anchors the team's defense. And unlike many team's in the league, the Ballers play five men deep with Jamario Moon and Abdoulaye N'Doye seeing significant minutes off the bench.

Meanwhile for the team on the lake, Iso Joe continues to dominate. Joe Johnson was the best player in the Big3 first incarnation and the trend continues in the rebirthed second edition of the league. Johnson is averaging just a shade over thirty points a game and just over nine rebounds. The Toledo Lakers are not the most balanced club in the league, but Johnson is sporting efficiency numbers better than some teams in the league.

Bringing up the rear through the halfway mark are the Phoenix Heaters and the Norfolk Sunshine. The Heaters, led by Gary Payton Sr., lack offensive firepower and have struggled to score. In Southern Virginia, Franklin Session looks like a superstar in the making while Jared Sullinger fails to live up the hype of his signing. The two teams have already played each other twice for the season with Norfolk taking both games by scores of 60-53 and 61-59.

Jason Richardson and Ty Lawson are the other two players gunning for MVP at the season's midpoint. Richardson has been a scoring machine for Pebble Beach but lacks Iso Joe's defensive and rebounding chops. Lawson hasn't had the same scoring numbers as Johnson and Richardson but has high efficiency numbers and assist totals. However, J-Rich and Lawson's stellar years will surely fall short at this pace as Johnson remains the frontrunner for the league's best player of 2022.

OOC: I'm not gonna post every game throughout the seasons in here, it'll be way too big. I'll give a half-season update, full-season update, post-season update. Then awards, draft and free agency moves. Since the focus is on the league more than an individual team, we're gonna lose some minutiae

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2022 Big3 Regular Season Comes to a Close; Season Awards and Playoff Bracket

Big3 End of Regular Season Standings - 2022
STANDINGS	W	L	GB
Boca Ballers	18	2
Toledo Lakers	14	6
Coronado Sailors	14	6
Aspen Slopes	14	6
Stowe Snow	11	9
Harpers Ferry Trek	9	11
Sin City Slashers	8	12
Oahu Waves	8	12
Phoenix Heaters	7	13
Pebble Beach Swing	4	16
Norfolk Sunshine	3	17

All Big3 Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
FIRST TEAM
Joe Johnson (TOL)	20	23.4	32.9	9.5	2.4	2.0	0.2	1.8	1.4
Jason Richardson (PB)	20	22.9	25.8	1.9	3.7	0.8	0.1	2	1.2
Ty Lawson (COR)	20	21	21.2	3.9	6.4	1.3	0	1	0.9
SECOND TEAM
Michael Beasley (ASPEN)	20	20.7	25.9	6.5	4.2	0.9	0.5	1.3	1.7
Franklin Session (NOR)	20	21.7	18.2	0.5	5	0.5	0.2	2.7	1.3
Gary Payton Sr. (PHX)	20	22.3	15	3.1	5.2	1.9	0.1	1.1	1.2
THIRD TEAM
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (BOCA)	19	17.4	18.6	1.4	5.9	0.5	0	1.4	1.1
Jonathon Simmons (BOCA)	20	20.1	17.2	3.6	3	2.4	0.5	0.8	0.9
Glen Rice Jr. (OAHU)	20	21.2	23.3	2.0	0.9	0.5	0.1	1.9	1.1

All Big3 Defensive Teams - 2022
Player
FIRST TEAM
Jonathon Simmons (BOCA)
Gary Payton Sr. (PHX)
Jamario Moon (BOCA)
SECOND TEAM
Rashard Lewis (BOCA)
Joe Johnson (TOL)
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (BOCA)

Big3 MVP Race - 2022
	WINNER	RUNNER-UP	3RD PLACE
	Joe Johnson	Jason Richardson	Ty Lawson

Big3 DPoY Race - 2022
	WINNER	RUNNER-UP	3RD PLACE
	Jonathon Simmons	Gary Payton Sr.	Joe Johnson

Big3 Fourth Man of the Year - 2022
	WINNER	RUNNER-UP	3RD PLACE
	Jordan Crawford	Abdoulaye N'Doye	Jamario Moon

Aspen Slopes Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Michael Beasley	20	20.7	25.9	6.5	4.2	0.9	0.5	1.3	1.7
Mario Chalmers	20	19.6	16.4	1	5.2	1.2	0	1	1.1
Brandon Rush	20	18.2	13.5	2.5	0.8	0.7	0.1	1.7	1.3
Alex Scales	18	6.3	3.1	0.8	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.7	0.5
Arinze Onuaku	2	3.6	1	2	0.5	0	0	0	0.5

Boca Ballers Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Rashard Lewis	20	17.1	20.5	4.2	2.2	0.9	0.2	2.1	2.1
Jonathon Simmons	20	20.1	17.2	3.6	3	2.4	0.5	0.8	0.9
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf	19	17.4	18.6	1.4	5.9	0.5	0.0	1.4	1.1
Abdoulaye N'Doye	9	7.3	3.7	0.3	0.9	0.2	0.0	1.3	0.4
Jamario Moon	20	10.1	2.9	2.9	0.8	0.9	0.1	1	0.6

Coronado Sailors Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Ty Lawson	20	21	21.2	3.9	6.4	1.3	0	1	0.9
Leandro Barbosa	18	19.1	20.9	2.5	1	0.5	0.1	1.4	1.2
Dondon Hontiveros	20	18	14.4	1.6	3.3	0.3	0	1.3	2
Will McDonald	14	9	3.9	2.4	0.8	0.6	0.1	1	1
Kuran Iverson	10	6.1	1.6	2.2	0.6	0	0	0.6	0.5

Harpers Ferry Trek Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Jermaine Taylor	20	18.8	12.6	1.8	1.4	0.5	0.3	1	1.4
Mike Taylor	20	20.1	17.2	1.3	5.1	0.8	0	2.3	1.5
Chris Johnson	18	18.1	14.3	6.4	1.9	1.4	0.3	1.8	1.1
Darnell Jackson	19	12	6.3	4.3	1.6	0.7	0.1	1.9	1.1
Chukwudiebere Maduabum	19	8	4.6	0.5	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.6	0.8

Norfolk Sunshine Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Franklin Session	20	21.7	18.2	0.5	5	0.5	0.2	2.7	0.4
Jared Sullinger	20	23.2	13.9	3.3	1.9	0.5	0.4	2.7	2
Darko Miličić	20	14.6	7.7	5	1.5	0.2	0.1	2.4	1.5
Josh Powell	20	12.1	5.8	3.1	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.9	0.8
Sasha Kaun	19	5.3	2.4	1.5	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.6	0.6
Dominique Johnson	3	2.8	0.3	0.3	0	0	0	0	0

Oahu Waves Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Cuttino Mobley	20	19.5	15.4	1.9	4.9	0.7	0	0.7	1
Glen Rice Jr.	20	21.2	23.3	2	0.9	0.5	0.1	1.9	1.1
T.J. Cline	16	19.1	10.8	3.8	3.7	1.9	0.1	2.8	0.6
Nikoloz Tskitishvili	20	13.6	5.1	4.4	1.2	0.9	0.1	1.8	1.1
Royce White	8	7	1.5	1.9	0.8	0.1	0.1	1.4	0.5

Pebble Beach Swing Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Jason Richardson	20	22.9	25.8	1.9	3.7	0.8	0.1	2	1.5
DaJuan Summers	19	20.8	11.3	3.5	3.4	0.9	0.2	2	1.4
Garlon Green	18	19.5	10.6	3.1	1.6	1	0.4	2.3	1.3
Larry Sanders	20	11.6	3.2	3.4	1.1	0.5	0.1	1.7	0.9
Ray Nixon	17	6.3	2.9	1.7	0.6	0	0	0.6	0.6

Phoenix Heaters Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Gary Payton Sr.	20	22.3	15	3.1	5.2	1.9	0.1	1.1	1.2
Earl Clark	20	22.6	14.1	3.4	1.4	1.2	0.5	2.6	1.5
David Hawkins	20	19.7	14.9	2	2.6	0.5	0.1	2.4	1.5
Amir Johnson	20	10.5	5.6	4.3	0.7	0.3	0.1	2	0.6
James White	20	7.1	3	1.7	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.5

Sin City Slashers Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Dušan Bulut	20	21.8	19.9	1.5	5.9	1	0.0	2.1	1.3
Greg Oden	20	17.5	9.3	7.4	1.6	1	0.2	2.3	1.1
Perry Petty	20	20.7	17.3	0.8	2.5	0.7	0.2	0.7	0.9
Deshawn Stephens	20	10.5	5.2	3.4	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.9	0.7
Moochie Norris	15	6.5	5.3	0.3	1.1	0	0	0.5	0.4

Stowe Snow Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Corey Brewer	20	21.7	19.3	5.2	3.4	2	0.6	2.3	1.1
Ike Diogu	20	19.6	10.1	5.2	1.8	1.2	0.1	2.6	1.4
Sek Henry	19	20.4	16.6	1.2	3.6	0.7	0.1	1.4	0.9
Jordan Crawford	20	10.5	7.2	0.6	1.7	0.7	0.2	1.1	0.9
Jeff Ayres	20	5.6	2.6	2.3	1	0.2	0	0.7	0.5

Toledo Lakers Stats - 2022
Player	GP	MIN	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FPG
Joe Johnson	20	23.4	32.9	9.5	2.4	2	0.2	1.8	1.4
Jannero Pargo	20	19	8.9	1.9	4.4	0.3	0.2	1.3	2.3
Jeremy Pargo	20	20.4	8.8	0.9	3.2	1	0.1	1.3	1
Alonzo Gee	20	9.8	6.8	1.3	0.7	0.5	0.1	0.8	0.9
Sergerio Gipson	2	4.7	2.5	0.5	0	0	0	0.5	1.5

2022 Playoff Bracket:
1. Boca Ballers vs. 4. Aspen Slopes
2. Toledo Lakers vs. 3. Coronado Sailors