The BIG3 Basketball League Returns to CBS for the 2024 Season (2024)

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LOS ANGELES – March 12, 2024 — Today, the BIG3 announced its seventh season will tip-off at Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA on June 15, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. ET live on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+.

Today, the BIG3 announced the first-ever purchase of rights for a BIG3 team to represent a home market.

Big 3 salary, prize money: How much will players make? Multiple reports have indicated that Big 3 players earn $10,000 per game, plus additional bonuses based on team performance. That means players can reach $100,000 in a single season.

Week 1 also marked a milestone for the league's audience, as the BIG3 reached a record breaking 7.1 million viewers across CBS and X. Here's everything you need to know about the BIG3's second week of action.

This season is the best yet." Attendance rebounded after two seasons impacted by COVID-19 restrictions. The first three weeks in Chicago, Dallas, and New York drew close to 30,000 fans in total, with energetic crowds averaging over 9,000 per event.

In 3x3, the game ends by rule after 10 minutes of play, or if a team reaches at least 21 points, with no required victory margin. If the teams are tied, 3x3 uses an untimed overtime with the shot clock enforced, and the first team that scores 2 points in the overtime wins.

The Big3, the 3-on-3 basketball league co-founded by rap and movie star Ice Cube in 2017, announced Friday for the first time it had sold the rights to a team based in its home market of Los Angeles to a group of investors led by DCB Sports for $10 million.

Ice Cube's 3-on-3 basketball league, the Big3, has made its first team sale in a deal worth $10 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. A group led by investment firm DCB Sports is acquiring the team, which is set to be based in Los Angeles.

The league will introduce decentralized team ownership, providing fans with the chance to own a stake in the 12 teams in the BIG3. Fans will have two ownership options comprised of 1000 editions – 25 Fire priced at $25,000 each and 975 Gold priced at $5,000 each.

ROSTER NEWS: Perry Jones III has been named Co-Captain of Enemies, making him the youngest player in BIG3 history!

Who is the oldest player in the BIG3? ›

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was the last pick in the inaugural BIG3 Draft. He is the oldest player in the league. But, the man Phil Jackson, Michael Rapaport and Dale Brown recently…

UAW President Shawn Fain said: “The Big Three have collectively amassed so much money in North American profits over the last ten years, they could have bought every NBA team, every MLB team, and every NHL team, and they would still have 50 billion dollars left over.”

During the Summer of Fire, Joe “Iso-Joe” Johnson joined that exclusive club. Before the start of the 2022 season, Johnson was already considered the GOAT of the BIG3. He was named the MVP in his first year in the league, 2019, when his Triplets team won the Championship.

No professional sports experience is required to tryout. Players will have the chance to compete for a roster spot in front of BIG3 coaches, players, and management, including commissioner Clyde Drexler and a collection of hall-of-famers and sporting legends.

BIG3 Lowers Minimum Age to 22-Years-Old

The BIG3 made an unprecedented number of league-wide announcements for the upcoming 2020 season.

You can get access to TNT and TruTV through live TV streamers such as DirecTV Stream, Sling TV and Hulu + Live TV. All options are currently offering either a free trial or promos that'll reduce the cost of the platform and give you access to the NBA playoffs.

Go to gbbasketball.tv and select “Sign In” in the top right corner. You can sign up using multiple methods: with your Google account. with your Facebook account.

The 2024 BIG EAST Baseball Championship Presented by JEEP will be co-hosted by Xavier University at Prasco Park in nearby Mason, Ohio. It is the sixth time the championship has been hosted at Prasco Park. The tournament will be held May 22-25, 2024.

The 2024 American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 13–17, 2024, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. The winner of the tournament, the UAB Blazers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA tournament.