Actually, the first reports about the start of the ninth season are mainly about injuries to key players. Actually, the first news reports about the start of the ninth season are mainly about injuries to key players. As reported by The Fourth Man (which we highly recommend you to follow), unfortunately, we won’t see three-time league MVP “Iso Joe” Johnson (Detroit Amps) in the upcoming season. Kosta Koufos (Los Angeles Riots), a 10-year NBA veteran, will also miss the first two weeks of the season and postpone his league debut.
Despite these problems, the season still looks very promising, as we wrote about not too long ago.
Perhaps it’s better that there were no major changes. A year ago, the league underwent a real revolution, assigning teams to cities for the first time. The format proved successful, so in the 2026 season we will likely see it stabilize and interest continue to grow. This season, team names, locations, and logos remain unchanged:
That said, we still regret that players known from the FIBA 3x3 format no longer play in the BIG3. Just four years ago, the Aliens team—which included Dusan Bulut and the newly crowned world champion Karlis Lasmanis, among others—was doing quite well in the league:
Here is the still brief, but already quite rich, history of Ice Cube’s league:
Looking at the current rosters of all the teams, it seems to us that a three-peat is very possible. Watch it with us and see for yourselves!
Last but not least, the biggest news of the past few days turned out to be a business announcement. BIG3 is going public! Probably before the end of this year, every fan will be able to buy shares in the league and thus become a co-owner. When the transaction closes, the publicly traded company will be named Big3 Basketball Holdings, Inc. and is expected to be listed on the NYSE or Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “TONT” (3-on-3). We’re already saving up our pocket money...
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