3-On-3 Basketball Will Be An Event In The 2020 Olympics

AP- The IOC added 3-on-3 basketball to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic program on Friday in an effort to give the games a more youthful and urban appeal.

There will be eight teams in each of the men’s and women’s tournaments of the half-court format which was introduced at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore.

“The dream of a path from the streets to the Olympic Games has become reality for all the basketball community,” said Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of basketball governing body FIBA. An urban Tokyo venue for 3-on-3 basketball could be announced when the IOC executive board meets again in Lausanne on July 9-10, IOC sports director Kit McConnell said.

Well well well. All the people that complained about how superteams and Big 3s (or in the Warriors’ case Big 4s) ruined the NBA now have to eat their words. Sure that stuff may have taken some of the drama out of the NBA regular season and playoffs. But it just evened the playing field on the world’s biggest international sports stage. Now those Big 3s will have plenty of time to practice together before being sent overseas to represent their country. No longer does Spain or Argentina or any other random ass countries get an advantage on the US of A because the teams have played together since before they could tie their shoe. Just another W for America. And another W for friend of Barstool Ice Cube who got in at the ground floor of the 3-on-3 basketball business. Seeing who makes the 2020 Dream Team will be fun. But seeing which superstars join forces for 3-on-3 teams will be muchhhh more fun. Does LeBron choose whatever team he has decided to sign with in 2020? Does Steph stay loyal to whatever Warriors teammates still fit under the cap by 2020? And what about the young gunners that will be seasoned vets by 2020? Do The Brow and KAT recruit De’Aron Fox for a former Kentucky Wildcats squad? Do the Almost Brooklyn 3 AKA Jaylen Brown, Markelle Fultz, and next year’s first rounder form a squad?

God that trade was terrible.

And who gets the unstoppable force that comes out once every four years known as Olympics Melo? (If you want a head start in the Olympics Melo sweepstakes, please call Phil Jackson to work out a trade. I imagine he only has a landline, so make sure to leave a message if he doesn’t pick up).

Actually you know what? Everyone else is playing for silver.

Actually make that bronze.

Also if they want to continue to make the Olympics more youthful with an urban appeal, the first thing they should do away with this nonsensical courts like this.

I want blacktop. I want chain nets. I want games to 21, winner takes out, with only 1 and 2 point shots and the crowd storming the court after a guy gets his ankles broken. And since the 2020 games are in Japan, give me the real Tokyo urban experience, which could get prettyyyyy weird/tentacle porny.

And while you are at it, give me an international dunk contest, HORSE, and games of knockout. Bump a few other track and field events out. I guarantee nobody will notice or give a fuck.