USC Basketball: Former First Team All-Pac-10 Trojan To Play In Big3 Final

The 12-year NBA pro is making the most of life in his new league.

Former USC Trojans All-Pac-10 (that's how old he is) First Team shooting guard/small forward Nick Young is now on the other side of his 12-year NBA career, four years removed from his last game in that league, but that hardly means he's done playing pro basketball.

A 2018 league champion while with the Golden State Warriors, the 6'7" wing is perhaps best known for his extended stints with the Washington Wizards -- who drafted him with the No. 16 pick in 2007, and with whom he spent the better part of five seasons -- and the Los Angeles Lakers (four seasons).

Since 2021, Young has been spending his summers playing for the Enemies on Ice Cube's Big3 league, a 3-on-3 league for either retired NBA players or younger role player still hoping for a return to the world's premiere 5-on-5 league.

Young's head coach on the Enemies is his former Wizards teammate Gilbert Arenas. The rest of the team includes another ex-Wizard, guard Jordan Crawford, plus Isaiah Austin, Elijah Stewart and Quincy Miller.

Yesterday, while playing on the Wizards' home floor at Capital One Arena in D.C., the 5-3 Enemies won their first playoff game against the higher-seeded Trilogy (6-2), 50-37. Though Young was able to contribute, the club managed to advance, moving on to the championship game, slated for next week at London's O2 Arena.

Across three seasons with USC, Young averaged 15.5 points on .484/.368/.764 shooting splits, 5.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 0.8 steals a night.