Lakers News: Former LA Fan Favorite Guard Leads Big3 Team To Playoffs
Former Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Nick Young, who suited up for the team during the wilderness of its post-championship era with Kobe Bryant, has made the postseason with his current league!
Young's 5-3 team, the Enemies, has qualified for the Big3 league's playoffs. His club is playing, right now, against the 6-2 Trilogy on CBS (the action tipped off at 10 a.m. PT).
The Big3 is a 3-on-3 basketball league, co-created by NWA star Ice Cube and talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz, that has served as a bastion for recent former NBA players to ply their wares. Joe Johnson has been playing there for years. Hall of Fame wing Clyde Drexler is the league's current commissioner.
The first round of the Big3's postseason is a final four at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C. today. The matchup between the 6-2 Triplets and the 5-3 Ghost Ballers tips off at 11 a.m. PT.
Coached by former Washington Wizards All-Star point guard Gilbert Arenas, the Enemies also feature Young's co-captains Isaiah Austin and Elijah Stewart, plus Quincy Miller, Jordan Crawford.
The most famous player on the Trilogy is their head coach, former NBA champion wing Stephen Jackson. The Trilogy, winners of the past two straight Big3 titles, features Amir Johnson, Earl Clark, James White, David Hawkins and Ryan Carter.
Young, a 6'7" swingman out of USC, spent 12 seasons in the NBA with the Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, your Lakers, the Denver Nuggets, and the Golden State Warriors, with whom he won his lone title as a reserve.
He was with LA from 2013-17, some overall underwhelming years for the team, during which its collective record was 91-237. Young played off the bench until the 2016-17 season, when he started in the state of the just-retired Bryant. He posted averages of 13.1 points on .405/.377/.846 shooting splits, 2.3 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 0.6 steals during his four Lakers seasons.
The Big3's 2023 championship game will be played a week from today in London's O2 Arena.
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