SPOILER ALERT: Day 1 Of The Big 3 League Had A Buzzer-Beater, A Walk-Off Free Throw, And A Depressing Injury
The reason I tagged this blog with a SPOILER ALERT is because FS1 has these games on tape delay for Monday night. I’m not sure what they usually show on Sundays, but I imagine it’s probably something like Skip Bayless getting jerked off by Fox execs as he yells at a cloud. So I didn’t want to ruin the suspense for the people that are able avoid social media, conversations with friends, and the general internet until 8 pm on Monday. I was this person for a few seconds until I realized I was unable to do 2 of the 3 things necessary to avoid spoilers (conversations with friends isn’t really a thing you do once you have a kid).
Anyway this is a good news, bad news type of blog. The good news is that the first two games of the Big 3 season had exciting endings. Games are played to 60, win by 2. For more info, here is Animated Ice Cube with the rules.
Got it? Good. Best animated rapper this side of the 2Pac hologram.
Anyway, we had Rashard Lewis with the extremely rare walk-off free throw.
Followed by DeShawn Stevenson with the more traditional game-winning shot.
That was the best thing DeShawn Stevenson has done since he was beefing with LeBron James.
And it was a great start to D’Angelo Russell’s Nets career at the Barclays!
Snitches get Nets jerseys and boos. Seems like a fair trade off.
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Now this is the bad news part of the blog I alluded to before. If I had to choose one person I wanted to see play in The Big 3, it was White Chocolate Jason Williams just because ridiculous passing and the willingness to pull up anywhere at any time are two skills that age very gracefully.
Unfortunately this happened too.
I’m not a doctor. In fact I avoid the doctor at all costs because I am afraid what he is going to say to me when I do go. But a guy screaming like he was shot in the knee is probably not a good thing.
Luckily for the Big 3, Allen Iverson was the guy I was looking forward to see playing as much as White Chocolate because of things like this.
But since this is the bad news section of the blog, I have to include this tweet.
Shit.
I guess there is only one player that can carry The Big 3 now.
Maybe there were just a few bad luck injuries or maybe a bunch of dudes in their 30s and 40s shouldn’t be playing professional ball. Only time will tell. I hope The Big 3 is a hit, but the lack of highlights and more importantly fights has me a little worried. At least we got a sweet new Ice Cube song.
YAYYY YAYYY
*That should be read as me doing the Ice Cube “YAYYY YAYYY” so it’s way more ridiculous