How does seeing 40-plus former NBA players compete in a 97-team tournament for a million dollars sound?
Brian Scalabrine and over 40 other former NBA players will be taking part in the second-ever event, simply titled as “The Basketball Tournament.” It will be a single-elimination tourney with the same rules that apply in the NBA. In just one year, the event has grown from a 32-team, $500k prize to a whopping 97-team, $1 million prize. It will officially kick off on July 10th, and will go all the way to August 1-2, with the championship being held at Fordham University in New York.
This definitely be something nice for basketball fans to chew on during the summer after all the excitement from the NBA Finals dies down. It will surely be fun to watch, and will undoubtedly only get bigger and bigger from here.
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