#3x3 league

[superherocapturedbydemons]

[the-physicality]

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[a2zsportsnews]

National State Basketball League to have 3x3 and 5x5 formats with prize pool of over 200 crore rupees

The Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has signed a seven-year deal with ACG Sports Limited, with a guarantee of Rs. 216.30 crore for hosting the National State Basketball League for men and women. Addressing the media here on Friday, the president of BFI, Aadhav Arjuna said that for each year, the amount would be 20.6 crore rupees for the 5×5 format and 10.3 crore rupees for the 3×3…

[pedripics]

Pedri via Residency - August 21, 2024

He is tired of today's training, which was intense

Idol? - “Iniesta, that hasn’t changed”

When will they be back at the Camp Nou? - “Well, I don't know for sure. At the end of the year or beginning of 2025”

How are you these days? - “All ok”

We are working very hard. The goal at Barça is always to win everything”

How was your first game back? - “I felt and we won in a very complicated field, Mestalla. So everything is ok”

What did you do today? - “Mainly, training. This afternoon I had treatment”

What trophy do you want to win this season? - “La Liga and Champions League, of course”

Favourite Colour? - “Blue”

Favourite Friend? - “My friends since childhood are called Dani, Fran and Ruben”

Do you see the TikTok edits about you? - “Some come up to me, of course! Many times I laugh”

Favourite NBA player? - “Curry”

Summer or winter? - “Well winter isn’t bad with a blanket at home”

How did you think of the name Nilo? - “I liked the name. My mother wanted Thor”

Gavi has not met Nilo yet

He’s looking forward to playing against Las Palmas since he didn’t get to last season

Nilo is a Culer like his entire family

Nilo still has to be at home. Being a very young puppy, he spends the day sleeping

Nilo should be Barça’s captain (i agree)

Who is better at table football? - “Me… I can't tell you anything else”

What promises would you make if you win the Champions League? - “Ugh… I already cut my hair and a moustache for winning the Euro. Some Suggestions?”

He doesn’t drink coffee

What do expect from Saturdays game? - “To win”

Do you often read rumours about yourself? - “As little as possible, although sometimes they come up on TikTok, for example”

Are you excited to play against Messi? - “It should be very nice, yes. And if we win, even more”

Marvel or Taylor Swift? - “The answer is Taylor Swift; I've seen some but I'm not a super fan of those movies”

Who will win the Champions League? - “Barça. I can't think of any other”

Do you ever play tennis? - “It's summer, sometime with my brother and friends”

“I'm very happy. This season I'm going to try to improve my English, as I told you.”

Do you have Arab origins? - “as far as I know only Canarian” (finally a question everyone wanted to know)

Milo’s breed? - “According to the veterinarian, it is a Labrador but a little smaller. I suppose it’s a mix”

Do you like Casado’s playing style? - “He did very well in Mestalla. The boys of the quarry have a lot of quality and desire, not only Marc”

Who is the player you wish you could had played more time? - “That’s easy, with Leo”

You talk with hansi in English? - “I understand him and some things I do tell him, but I mainly speak in Spanish”

Myke Towers or Quevedo? - “Quevedo is my favorite, also because it is from my land, although Mike Towers has crazyyy songs”

Do you get along with XBuyers? - “Yess!! Great people”

Opinion on Musiala? - “I think he’s a top player”

Olympic Sport you followed? - “A little bit pf everything, but Basket 3x3 seemed very good to me”

Do you like futsal? - “Siiii”

Do you play fantasy? - “Siii”

Do you still play FIFA? - “Siii”

Are you an angry or calm person? - “Normally calm”

Do you have more of your mom’s or dad’s personality? - “Maybe my mother… But that's a question for others”

Do u think u will receive a red card one day? - “I'm not very fond of seeing cards, but it's difficult not to see one in one’s entire career”

[captainmartin20]

If it's true that Napheesa wanted Kate from the start, I don't even know why people are debating her spot in the league. She was chosen by the owner and one of the best players in the WNBA saw something in her. Kate earned her spot on a back-to-back championship team because she's good at basketball, but people are acting like she’s nothing. She played a huge role in IOWA's success, and I’d even say she was as important as Caitlin to that team. Take Kate out of the UConn game, and they don’t advance at all; take her off that team, and they don’t make it to back-to-back NCAA finals. She’s not just Caitlin’s buddy. In the first and only game between the Aces and the Fever where both got playing time, Kate even outscored Caitlin.

let me kiss ur brain, anon. you explained it perfectly.

so let me jut add:

i saw the tweet and i don't think that journalist/analyst would lie about something like that. i think phee knew early on that kate would be a great asset in their new league. the "top 30 players" selling point should've been thrown out the window a few couple announcements ago lol. not sure why people are acting surprised now

aside from being a good player already (thee aces drafted her and she kept her spot on the roster), kate was probably eager to get more minutes anywhere and improve her skills in the offseason. so once the opportunity presented itself (thank you phee), she probably didn't think twice. other players might've already signed to other leagues/might not have wanted to play 3x3 basketball in the offseason...

and lastly, kate has a fanbase that not only exists online (her announcement post literally garnered one of the highest engagement across all platforms. the likes on her post on insta exceeded 24/26 of other announcements), but she also has fans that are willing to travel to watch her play, and buy her jersey (one of the top selling jerseys in her rookie season. no i will not let yall forget about this). these days they could slap kate martin's face or name in something and there will be people out there who will buy it (me).

bottom line is: even if kate isn't in YOUR top 30, she's in phee's and stewie's top 30 :)

[tvmusiclife]

Personally enjoying this [slightly adjusted] full court style 3x3 instead of a half court. This 3x3 is bringing a nice competitive fast paced level to the game, different than 5x5 league play. Elite players playing at an elite level 🤌🏽

[compher]

If you’re disappointed that your NHL team isn’t playing tonight, how about giving Unrivaled basketball a shot?

Unrivaled is a 3x3 women’s basketball league debuting tonight, with two 1-hour games at 7 PM EST and 8 PM EST respectively.

It’s fast paced, made-for-TV, accessible to new basketball fans, and has world class players like Allisha Gray, Angel Reese, Rhyne Howard, Dijonai Carrington and more competing.

Broadcasting will happen on TNT and HBO Max + your favorite alternative methods. I highly encourage everyone to show up for women’s sports and at least give it a shot if you’re not doing anything else!

[basicallyaturtle]

never been part of a tag game, sounds really fun! tagged by dear Lanvender, @khan-crete

Do you make your bed? A freshly decrumbed, stuffed animal arranged and dirty clothes removed bed feels great. How often do I do this? We mustn't ask (like once or twice a month) that's all making the bed entails for me, I just have a fitted then normal sheet and blankets

Favorite Number? 4 4 4 4 4! I've loved four my entire life she is like a goddess to me. 2+2 2*2 2^2, divides into halves twice. can only compete with sixteen, whose status and 2^4 and 4^2 is nice, but not as symmetric. 37 and 73 have a place in my heart as the 12th and 21st primes, but not a large place compared to 4

What's your job? What do I get paid for? undergrad lab TA, what do I do? grad research in low energy nuclear physics

If you could go back to school, would you? In school technically still. Would I rewind time to experience school again? highschool no college yes. would I go back for another college degree? I could be convinced if it would be cheap and unobtrusive to my current schooling. Was always torn between physics and linguistics. I made the right choice but I always wonder what if.

Can you Parallel Park? I have done it, on the driving test, like four or five years ago. I think I could do it again, but not too confident

Do you think Aliens are real? Eh, probably in a 'the observable universe 9.3e+9 ly across, it must have happened more than once' kinda way, but not in a 'they've been feeding us tech for thousands of years or are visiting us' kinda way.

Can you drive a manual car? Never tried, hubris tell me yes, anxiety with even normal cars tells me I'd probably fuck up the transmission while trying to leave the driveway. gonna say yeag

Guilty Pleasure? I think like cheesy childhood disney live action movies?, generally I'm pretty full chested about the things I enjoy

Favorite Type of Music? yeah, hard, a lot of vocaloid, which isn't reallly a genre, a lot of edm genres from like old school monstercat, a lot of jrock by way of anime OP's of show's I've never watched then finding other songs by those artists. some rock music though that genre is also extremely expansive and I'm not sure how I'd categorize a lot of it. Generally my music consumption consists of a group of maybe five songs completely unrelated on repeat for months at a time and genre is not a huge factor in that

Do you like puzzles? twisty puzzles like rubik's cube type puzzles are really fun working, towards doing a 3x3 blindfolded but challenging, I used to do jigsaw's with my mom but over the course of a very long time because we'd get frustrated. crosswords, but I'm no good at them

Favorite Childhood Sport? Soccerrrr. Wish I'd stayed with it, but there were only a couple more years before there wasn't a league for my age group anyway, been trying to get back into it recreationally

Do you talk to yourself? I do, but as if I'm talking to someone else. I prefer not to do it because I'm not content with my voice atm, but I find myself doing it a lot especially when getting stuck on research stuff trying to talk it out or I will say a comment to someone I disagree with outloud rather than typing it and posting it. A lot of this is to my reflection which is probably part of the reason it feels like someone else lol

Tea or Coffee? tea all the way. drank iced sweet black tea my entire childhood and started drinking it hot with milk in college. I was the kind of person that disliking coffee was a sort of pillar of my tastes, but then a few years ago made it with like half milk and a lot of sugar and like it, lotta people wouldn't call that coffee, but eh.

First thing you wanted to be when you grew up? The actual first thing was everything. I would amalgamate like all the stereotypes of things kids want to be into one so a firefighter-astronaut-whatever else. When I got a better sense of my interests, inventor, so I guess like product designer, but what that meant to me was I got to sit around and think of neat gadgets and items then figure out how to make them like freeze ray, time machine, clone gun, that kind of thing lol. the first practical idea of a job I wanted was theoretical physicist in like middle school, which I kinda am now so success I guess

What Movies do you Adore? not much of a movie person, but like to watch movies other people are interested in with them, love castle in the sky, LOTR, howl's moving castle, your name, probably others in those categories I don't know about yet or have forgotten and I have a strong soft spot for childhood halloween movies like twitches and halloweentown

I'm curious what @arc-archernar and @charyou-tree have got to say if they'd like to, and anyone else that wants to participate!

[clubhoops]

Kate Martin of the Las Vegas Aces is the latest player to join the Unrivaled Basketball League, a new 3x3 women’s professional basketball league set to launch during the WNBA offseason. Martin becomes the 27th WNBA player to publicly commit to the league, adding more star power to the roster.

She joins a stacked rookie class that already includes standout talents like Angel Reese and Rickea Jackson, signaling the league’s ambition to bring top-tier competition to the 3x3 format.

[female-buckets]

Stewie!!!!! Stew created a 3x3 league just so she could play with Jewell again!!!!!

Wow. This is so beautiful especially after this crazy fucking week.

Stewie has not said a positive word about Noelle Quinn since her Storm contract expired in September 2022. She does not give a shit about that lady. And at this point, I don't see why I should give a shit about Noelle either.

I'm standing with Jewell!!! And fuck the rest!!!

[whoopseydaisy]

“Death is a friend to me. We do supper club every Thursday. He makes me dinner and I serve him breakfast.”

- Lou Wilson as Slam Jamiels in Space Cram: Reasonable Hoop Dreams Ep 01: “The Menlo County Summer League 3x3 Part 1”

[equalhealerr]

Why aren’t they bugging Wilson Sabrina and all the other stars who they claim are the faces of the league. If they can survive without them why do they need Caitlin. According to their logic they are who they should actually be bugging. Caitlin needs to train with actual coaches not play in dome 3x3 league where she could possibly injure herself the money isn’t worth the risk of potential injury and mental load people will put on her constantly scrutinizing her play and she probably doesn’t want to hear how she brings in racists and awful fans. No means no go bug some other player

Seriously like get somebody else to do it

[the-physicality]

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[time-is-restored]

okay like listen i know a lot of people have been talking abt this specific aspect of 3x3 already but. im just having a bit of a moment w the amount of lgbt ppl who saw trent's expression at the end there, and like. Knew.

like to be clear i am aware that at this point trent being gay is, at best, subtext + fanon. its incredibly beloved subtext, but its entirely possible that it could get blown out of the water in the coming episodes. but within the reading of trent being a gay man, seeing colin in that terrifying moment of exposure + vulnerability... that look says So much. its fear, its worry, its an instinctive protective response. its helplessness, its shame from feeling powerlessness, its the grim certainty that comes from knowing just how much is at stake.

(cw: discussion of homophobia + discrimination below. its long. i very much rambled.)

bc the thing that i personally keep coming back to is like. everyone on the team is colin's friend - his family, even, according to the themes of the show. the show is literally about the team + staff working together to break down their toxic/unhealthy behaviours and build up a culture of trust + respect. that's why i think it's so significant that while isaac is the one to use the word gay pejoratively, he's also the one checking in on colin when he gets moved to the bench. he's arguably colin's closest friend at the club! and that's not enough. the fact that the richmond club is made up of demonstrably good and well-intentioned people isn't enough.

don't get me wrong, its fucking terrifying + awful being closeted around ppl who are ACTIVELY bigoted and cruel and who u KNOW would be nothing less than awful to if u were out. but the uncertainty of being around people you love, and not knowing what would happen if you told them? of never truly being sure of your place in the dynamic, since there's always that risk hanging over your head? its exhausting, and terrifying.

because what if they aren't accepting? even avoiding the worst case scenario where his bosses (the coaches, higgins, rebecca - hell, even keely) don't outright cut his career short, he's obviously extremely aware of how being on the outs with the team could lead to his life being made miserable. he was harassing nate himself! and, again, putting aside the (very real! he's a football player! he spends half of his time in a locker room!!!) threat of physical violence, we JUST saw how quickly a member of the team can be shunned + labelled as an outsider (and in the context of this arc, i rlly don't think its a coincedence that trent, specifically, was the one to experience that treatment). and that's without even getting STARTED on the absolute nightmare britain's press + papparazi would be if they put a target on his back (the show has spared no gory detail for their treatment of rebecca + ted, after all).

this is the type of weight colin's been carrying around for the past three seasons. and trent, in that split second before he looked away and continued walking, must've felt it all right along with him. colin works for the fucking premier league in fucking britain. it's harder to think of a workplace LESS hospitable to anything other than the most cishetero, toxic, hyper conformist displays of masculinity.

and that's what fucking GETS me abt the reading where trent is gay! because in the exact same moment where trent would be feeling such a sudden sense of connection + solidarity w colin (you are not alone!!! im here too! i see you! i know you!), there comes the crushing weight of wanting to protect him, and not knowing if you can. trent may be a notoriously incisive + unflinching reporter, but w/ all of his power + armour stripped away now that he's no longer with the independent, it's damningly obvious that trent doesn't have anything close to real power at richmond. if they wanted to make colin's life hell, what could he really do to stop them? again: they're fucking footballers. he's only even allowed at the club on ted's word, a word which could presumably be revoked at any time.

i just. the fear. the guilt. the shame. and above all, the desperate, heart aching need to keep another member of the community safe, even with the odds so blatantly stacked against you both.

and like. idk. to me that is the point of this scene. i think whether you've been in trent's position, or colin's, or neither, the vast majority of us went through a very similar emotional journey when we saw colin exposed like that. love -> fear -> protectiveness. and its an urge so strong, ppl are (lightheartedly, for the most part) threatening the Literal Writers of the show! like, the fact that rn there are SO many people out there tweeting + liveblogging and threatening trent, threatening isaac, threatening the WRITERS - threatening literally anyone and everyone over the CHANCE that any of them will hurt colin/out him/expose him to homophobia in any way? like, yes, colin isn't real. but i'd like to hope that that solidarity is.

and just to be clear, ted lasso is ultimately a comedy show. while it has never shied away from frankly portraying dark subject matter, i don't think this story will have an unhappy ending. but if this arc comes with any takeaway at all, i just really fucking hope that its about how that solidarity is what we all need to embrace + run towards, rather than try and stifle. and that colin is fully + unconditionally supported by his community, whoever that may be.

[scopostims]

captain nemo stimboard with cephalopods and robotics for anon :•]

[ID: A 3x3 stimboard.

GIF 1: The inner workings of an animatronic head looking up and down.

GIF 2: A brown octopus swimming across the ocean floor.

GIF 3: An Aibo ERS-210, a silver robotic dog, waving its paw.

GIF 4: A black and white cuttlefish with shifting black and white stripes and yellow and purple accents moving across the ocean floor.

Image: Captain Nemo from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

GIF 5: A sheer blue and pink cuttlefish swimming amongst coral.

GIF 6: A black robotic hand resting flat on the table, curling its ring finger as a wheel below that finger spins.

GIF 7: A white and yellow cuttlefish slowly swimming past the camera.

GIF 8: A robotic jellyfish in a large display case, smoothly waving metal tendrils and moving slightly upwards.

End ID]

[ccfever]

why don't you want her to join unrivaled? ive seen some people say that it's the possibility of injuries but im curious about your reasoning

aurkayyy

i would rather have no injury risk

it’s not even proper 3x3 like the one sanctioned by FIBA. it’ll be played through 4 quarters and with a scaled down full basketball court? i just don’t think it’s worth it since it’ll be a completely different game and won’t really help cait with anything imo

she needs to work with a trainer all offseason. get stronger, better handles, the works. i know a lot of people say it’s a long time but imo she needs that rest and training time

the season starts at january and plays through 8 weeks iirc. i just feel like the scheduling of it all isn’t ideal for it to gather any sort of following. it’ll be competing with the NBA, NHL, and some european football leagues (?) so i don’t think it’s taking off and i don’t think it’s worth the hassle

yeah i’m just not moved by the league as a whole and i don’t want cait to be anywhere near it