Mike Bibby, Jason Williams and Larry Sanders are just some of the former NBA players competing in The Basketball Tournament, a single-elimination basketball tournament that has taken place each summer since 2014. Last year, the winning team took home $1 million. This year, the winning team will take home $2 million.
Bibby, who played 14 years in the NBA, is competing in TBT for a second straight year and will be playing on the same team as Williams, who played 12 years in the NBA and won a championship with the Miami Heat in 2006. Both members of Pedro’s Posse can still ball out. Don’t believe me? Watch a 40-year-old Williams still make guys look silly on the basketball court.
Also competing in this year’s tournament is former Milwaukee Bucks center Larry Sanders, who walked away from the NBA in 2015. Sanders told The Vertical he plans to “look into coming back” to the NBA once his “art, music and passions off the court feel stable.” TBT might be the first step.
No current NBA players are competing in TBT but several will be coaching, and others like Kristaps Porzingis, CJ McCollum, John Wall and Chandler Parsons will be acting as boosters.
The TBT tournament field is announced and seeded June 8 and the opening rounds will take place July 9. The championship game will be televised on ESPN August 2.
[h/t CBS Sports]
