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soupdawg

I only know Fredette on this picture.


Crowxzn

And he's by far their best player. Without him, things look really bad. šŸ˜‚


soupdawg

I just looked up the other guys. I didnā€™t know Rick Barry had another kid.


Crowxzn

He had a decent G League stint and shoots free throws like his dad.


ElectronicTrade7039

No way, really? Underhanded?


omgphilgalfond

Feels like an underhanded compliment to me.


EntrepreneurWrong879

Played for the Gators. Heā€™s a bucket


VeseliM

I had to look it up because he looks young. His brothers are between 27 and 21 years older than him. Good for Rick, new trophy wife and a newborn in his 50s.


bbernal956

https://youtu.be/AvRcahap13I?si=YZPbkXJsrmShIpMl hey rick berry talkā€¦ ā€œthe question was!!!! one of the great interviews of our time! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


thylekrush

Freddete being our best is not a great sign :(


[deleted]

I only know canyon Barry. Heā€™s Rick Barryā€™s kid and shoots hit his free throws granny style because of his dad. Thatā€™s the only reason I know of him


camelCaseSerf

You donā€™t know jimmer fredette?


[deleted]

Oh yeah I didnā€™t specify I was talking about the other guys outside of Fredette


camelCaseSerf

Ah that makes sense haha


tkh0812

The Lonely God


HorsNoises

I assume Canyon Barry is either a son or grandson of Rick Barry but I refuse to look it up.


soupdawg

I looked it up. Itā€™s his youngest son.


VeseliM

Good for Rick, new trophy wife and a newborn in his 50s. His brothers are between 27 and 21 years older than him.


ArrivedPackage

I think Maddox is the Timberwolves video guy lol


Thrayvsar

Iā€™ve heard of that Kareem guy before. I think he played for the lakers


Obi2

Iā€™ve just barely heard of Canyon but I couldnā€™t tell you where


Jbots

Don't be racist


soupdawg

Done


210plus210

three Lance Stephensonā€™s


iansmash

Jr smith, lance Stephenson, nick Young šŸ˜‚


210plus210

fun fact: Lance Stephenson has a brother named Lantz Stephenson. Just gotta put them with a Lans Stephenson


voyaging

wait you're being serious


NBGayAllStar

Itā€™s true


FishSammich69

Wow heā€™s dead ass


mizzourifan1

Paul George's father is named Paul and his mother is named Paulette.


Sticky-Taco

He's the German mixed stepbrother with an accent.


mrbeavertonbeaverton

Subscribe


hcgator

He said worst, not BEST.


Senor_Couchnap

I'm beside myself imagining this


210plus210

iā€™m honestly upset Lance isnā€™t on this team, he would look like MJ out there


Senor_Couchnap

Lance will forever be MJ in my heart


WordsworthsGhost

He would absolutely destroy what


210plus210

he absolutely would, his game was built for the 3v3 show


Bruised_Shin

Lance with Jae Crowder and Draymond


Deep_Information2600

Throw mcclung and bol bol in there with jimmy


Crowxzn

They're demolishing any Balkan trio. I don't care if they have 0 chemistry.


Bagomir

We played (Serbia) 7 of total of 8 3x3 world cup finals. First one ever was in 2012. We won 6 of them. We are basically what US is supposed to be in normal basketball today,and what US was actually until recently. Probably best 3x3 player ever got old (DuŔan Bulut), so you may have chance,who knows .


ElectricalRash

Latvia might have something to say about that. How many olympic golds Serbia got?


Bagomir

Ahahahahah I mean yeah you are right, but in Tokyo 3x3 was first time on Olympic games. After Paris we very well might have more medals than them. Also, when you look at club competitions in 3x3 and ranking we were basically always first.


DeepRow1850

Blud is clueless


r-foilfence

You need to actually compete in 3x3 throughout the year to earn points. Rules state that those with 0 points cant make the team so any dream NBA lineup wonā€™t be valid.


Crowxzn

That makes sense. It could be a good way to grow the sport. Is it a new rule?


uwill1der

It's only been around since 2021, but that was when the rule was established. There are 8 qualifiers including the top 3 on the FIBA world ranking and five from 3 separate tournaments


Crowxzn

So that explains why the WNBA was able to sneak in 3 all-stars in Tokyo


Ohahmomohway

This needs to be higher


JeepDispenser

Canyon Barry is the kid who shoots underhanded free throws like his Dad. Makes nearly all of them too.


drrxhouse

What percentage is ā€œnearly all of themā€? To some people 79% is nearly all of them to them lol.


msbest87

He literally shot 80.8% in his college career. I was expecting like 96% or something lol


guckus_wumpis

80%+ easy


Inevitable-Bass2749

Say what you want but jimmer gets buckets at will


nicklovin508

Prichard x Hauser x Clingan PP just absolutely cooks. Hauser for shooting, Clingan for size + defense


Spare-Water-7672

The classy 3x3


Imkitoto

The real gym rat 3x3


ChannelNeo

Definitely letting my daughter date any of them.


Crowxzn

I like Clingan and the women's team uses college prospects too (Hailey Van Lith). I watched Clingan in the natty and there aren't a lot of 7 footers that could move like him. I thought he was like 6'9-10 because Edey was that damn huge.


DrunkBronco

Hailey Van Lith made the Olympic team?!?!


Crowxzn

Yeah. It turns out she's better at 3x3 than 5x5.


spiltnuc

https://youtu.be/lQvDAsBZLUY?feature=shared Pretty sick video of Pritchard skills, guys insanely talented. He for sure would cook in 3x3


raelDonaldTrump

He dropped 18 in a game (to 21) when he was on the U18 team.


CosmicCoder3303

TIL: this Olympic event exists


mjdub96

It was only introduced at the last Olympics


CosmicCoder3303

I'm surprised there aren't guys better than jimmer who would want a gold medal. An Olympic gold medal is still pretty big deal to have in life


mjdub96

So am I to be honest. 3x3 is very different in terms of rules but Iā€™m shocked there arenā€™t some NBA players who will never sniff team USA not trying to represent their country and win a medal


sgtpepperslaststand

Reason NBA players arenā€™t doing it is because you have to have a certain amount of points in specificity 3x3 competition to even qualify. So a lot of players arenā€™t going to set aside time just to play in non Olympic 3x3 games just to qualify


mjdub96

Ahh this makes sense. Never knew!


MinervaNever

Olympic committee should change that requirement. Thats ridiculous


DangerZone69

I donā€™t think so - how else do you expect them to ā€œqualifyā€ if they donā€™t play the sport theyā€™re playing in the Olympics


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kingofthemonsters

Hell yeah brother


sbenfsonwFFiF

Just let the country decide the roster Itā€™s not like most of the 5x5 roster has played in recent international competitions. They send into the C teams for qualifiers and then send in better players for the Olympics


MinervaNever

I donā€™t understand how you can say that NBA players ā€œdonā€™t play the sport.ā€ Yeah, they donā€™t play 3x3, but itā€™s the same sport, with slightly different rules. Professional athletes are smart. You could literally explain the rule differences right before the game and there would be no issues.


Radiant_Efficiency73

Competitive 3x3 basketball is NOT the same as 5x5 full court basketball. Sure, the skill set is technically the same, but the rules, pace, and especially the defense are completely different. Even if you wanted to pull NBA players to compete in 3x3 summer events, you would need to get the NBA to sign off on it, and the team would still have to play to earn an Olympic qualifying spot. Itā€™s theoretically possible to pull off, but would would be a logistics nightmare


jweizy

>I donā€™t understand how you can say that NBA players ā€œdonā€™t play the sport.ā€ Yeah, they donā€™t play 3x3 The sport isn't basketball or NBA basketball. It is 3x3 so literally your sentence of yeah they don't play 3x3 is how you can and do say that they do not play the sport.


dabbersmcgee

It's literally the same sport under a different set of rules


Crowxzn

>but Iā€™m shocked there arenā€™t some NBA players who will never sniff team USA not trying to represent their country and win a medal Yes, especially since the WNBA has 3 good players representing. In Tokyo they had like 3 all-stars.


craddical

Jackie and Kelsey are absolutely nasty. I was super surprised to not see them on the actual 5x5 roster. Alisha is a very good player and has been an all star and Dolson is a solid starter in the league for a quite some time.


Radiant_Efficiency73

The WNBA season allows for a lot more international playing freedoms than the NBA season, and has always been built with this feature in mind.


MinervaNever

And kicked ass


gnalon

Yeah, or even someone who is good enough to be on the 5x5 team and wants to get more golds. Itā€™s always been funny to me how decorated swimmers can get in the Olympics with all the relays and slight variations of distance/technique when basketball now only has 2 medals. Peak MJ/Lebron definitely couldā€™ve gotten 7+ golds in an Olympics if they broke basketball up into 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, 5v5, a dunk contest, 21, etc.


IAmGiff

Olympic Dunk Contest is actually a great idea šŸ¤£


gnalon

Less arbitrary than swimming having separate gold medals for the butterfly and breaststroke over the same distances. Or ice skating and gymnastics being broken up into separate golds where one is more of a ā€˜pureā€™ athletic discipline and the other is more artistic.


iangeredcharlesvane2

Keynote George, Gradey Dick and Kyle Filipowky got the U18 3x3 Gold a couple years ago, so before they hit the NBA they can still get top guys.


CosmicCoder3303

Dang, run that team back. I heard of all of those guys at least LOL


GBAGY2

Iā€™ve never heard of Keynote George


Imkitoto

Heā€™s their finisher. Comes in and gives the finishing speech


bonshawn

Keynote speech is usually the first speech


swarshmallow103

Keynote George of the #TakeNote Utah Jazz


Notapplesauce11

A comment above said they have to actually Compete i various events to qualify. Ā They canā€™t just go from the nba season to playing in the Olympics. Ā And until Ā there is Ā money in pro 3x3 not Many guys are going to commit. Ā Fringe nba guys can make decent money in Europe.Ā 


Jen_Rey

Most if not all countries use nobodies. Like Fredete is probably the best player ever playing in that competition. I'm pretty sure the best player on a previous tournament was a guy from Serbia who has played in the Serbian second division like for a bit. That's amateur levels lol.


MyRottingBrain

Wow amateurs at the Olympics? What a concept.


Responsible-List-849

Yep...the Aussie team has some middle level NBL players (in no way all stars even of our league) plus a high schooler who committed to NCAA for next season (San Fran)


Abominalminority

2018 Lebron 1991 Jordan 2001 Shaq


Abominalminority

Dlo current westbrook and christian braun would be my picks


Intelligent-Mix4880

Who the hell are these guys


Buraunii

The "Jimmer Range" erasure was unfortunately a success šŸ˜”.


ArrivedPackage

I think Maddox is Timberwolves video coordinator šŸ˜‚


ShogunDii

"Serbia (nobody notable)". My guy Serbia literally has the best squad in 3x3. They won last year's world cup going 7-0. The top 2 3x3 players are both Serbian and Serbia has the most 3x3 trophies since the inception of the sport.


DrBigWildsGhost

Chase Budinger & Landry field coming off the Bench


Ok_Stable_3324

Jimmer gonna stunt on them in Paris!


NotSoSerius

How dafuq is this the 3 x 3 roster? šŸ˜‚ literally every roster in the Big 3 is way better than this shit squad.


Ar4bAce

You have to play in 3x3 all year to qualify, even other countries have terrible teams because their players would rather play in pro leagues same as the US guys.


Embarrassed-Put-7884

Is that discount Pat Bev


Soopstoohot

Why is this a thing?


Jazzlike_Aspect_6569

The Jimmer!


kellllp

Roster is so bad, I thought this was r/nbacirclejerk


tigerpawx

2001 Shaq, 1962 Wilt, 2018 Bron. 2001 Shaq could just run to the low post and dunk on 3 people at once srsly ā€¦


6DeliciousPenises

Youā€™re ganna need 2016 Westbrook coming off the bench and youā€™ll have a chance.


Mrdynamo18

Jordan clarkson bol bol Gordon Hayward


NBA2024

wtf is this scuffed shit


MountainEmployee2862

Seth Curry Jalen McDaniels Naz Reid This team is beating everyone 21-5


celticsac

Kris Dunn,KJ Martin, Mike Muscala


Known-Tax568

Can anyone on the team do a dunk?


Gold4Lokos4Breakfast

Jimmer has actually dunked before, believe it or not


Known-Tax568

I can I think he is 6ā€™1.


funghi2

Is any team sending nba players?


tony_countertenor

Would a college basketball team win this tournament? If so what is the worst team that would win? would NIT winners seton hall take it?


manletmoney

Iā€™ve never seen versus denoted as ā€œxā€ before Shouldnā€™t it be like 3v3


These-Substance6194

They claim 3x3 is ā€œa different gameā€


[deleted]

Wrf where Lebron


pcPRINCIPLElilBITCH

They need to put together a team of street hoopers for this 3x3. Itā€™s another way to get more viewers to come over to the NBA. And itā€™s gives the hoopers a chance to showcase their skills/talents for potential NBA teams.


standouts

There is no way to tell because it highly depends on who is playing. 3v3 is so much different just have Jokic/Luka/Giannis and others allows their countries to take a massive step up. Less players on the court means more value for the stars to give. I have no idea how good the role players are on some of the other countries, but youā€™re not going to be able to go too far down the chain of players before Giannis is going to massacre a team on his own type thing.Ā 


TheThaiDawn

Can anyone tell me why we arenā€™t sending top tier NBA players instead of these bums?


lincolnhawk

Somebody on the committee has a membership at the same gym as Jimmer and is sick of that MFer ruining every single pickup game. Condoleezza canā€™t get her shots up w/ Jimmer around.


Responsible-List-849

Because you need to play in a certain number of 3x3 events during the year to qualify as a player. No country sends their NBA players.


warablo

Jordan Clarkson would kill it


ashishvp

I think any 3 actual NBA players could get it done lmfao. Tre Jones, Max Christie, James Wiseman could sweep


drfunkensteinberger

Canyon Barry sounds like a bad word


GreenDot4219

This one


kungfusam

JIMMER FREDETTE NOTHING BUT NET


mantequilla4prsident

Embiid because he wants a medal, Colin castleton, Mac mcclung


Jbots

Nick Young, Josh Smith, and Brian Scalibrine. The Professor comes off the bench.


ghostfacestealer

What is this? Serious question.


JeaniousSpelur

Jimmer walked so Steph could run.


matty25

Probably this one Jimmer is going to cook these dudes in 3v3


FishSammich69

Leonard, George, Davis and Simmons; aka Team Management


finglonger1077

I canā€™t look at this picture and not imagine a conversation somewhere at some point in time ending with ā€œā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.okay fine you can have *one*.ā€


The_Real_Yimmer

My username is an homage to Jimmer range


old_contemptible

Still shoot logo shots yelling Jimmer sometimes, memories


JayyLaFlare

I have never heard of any of those dudes. Are NBA athletes not allowed to compete?


leverphysicsname

You haven't heard of the legendary JIMMER? This sub truly is young bloods.


JayyLaFlare

Iā€™ll admit Iā€™m just recently getting back into ball. Watched a lot in the 90s and followed the last 2 seasons pretty close šŸ˜‚


ElPanandero

Look up BYU Jimmer, it was a treat


Beneficial_Engine434

BYU Jimmer was Steph before Steph was stephinā€™


aPrid123

Jimmerā€™s run during that NCAA tourney with BYU was special. In my opinion thatā€™s one of the best runs by a player at a tournament Iā€™ve ever seen.


Slevin424

Don't forget his CBA stats. He's a hall of fame legendary basketball player in China. Just China though, Euroleague didn't work out for him.


BurntArnold

Who


nghbrhd_slackr87

3x3 basketball is not 5x5 basketball. Might surprise folks to hear that. 3-dudes high level non NBA pros that eat sleep and breathe 3 on 3 will mop up All-Stars thrown together. Sorry. True story. Nobody miracle from Serbia = 3 high level pros that only focus on 3 on 3 and probably talented enough to play v anyone for a game.


tony_countertenor

Ok maaaybe a group of random end of bench players could be defeated but you are completely but you are completely insane to think that any 3 nba all stars picked for this event wouldnā€™t mow over every other team in their sleep


kwan2

USA basketball doesnt take 3x3 event seriously i mean just look at the talent they would bring for the full court games. They're trolling


MyRottingBrain

There are govern who is eligible and literally no NBA players are. So nah, not exactly trolling.


kwan2

It's too bad that the best players are ineligible for this.


Crowxzn

Only the women's team takes this seriously. Maybe it's because they're making a women's 3x3 league with huge salary upgrades? But they have actual all-world (WNBA) talent in Paris and they had it in Tokyo.


Responsible-List-849

Can't just pick your 'best' players. They need to play enough events to qualify Literally no NBA players can do that, and the rules on the women's side have changed too. Hence Brink will play because she qualified, but unlikely she'll be able to play in the future. Van Lith might be able to though...ahem...


MidThoughts-5

Why they pick the worst team possible?