Coog, Andre Owens is playing in the Big 3 league and doing pretty well. He’s on Allen Iverson’s team (3’s Company):
He was leading the league in assists and rebounds as of this past weekend; 3rd in 3 pointers per game.
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He was selected #2 in the Big 3 draft.
Other players of note are Cuttino Mobley and Moochie Norris, both of whom play on Clyde’s team.
Currently, Owens ranks third in minutes played, fourth in rebounds, third in assists and has one of the highest true shooting percentages in the 3-on-3 showcase. Owens won’t fill up the stats sheet like Rashard Lewis, but he’s got a hard-nosed, do-it-all mentality that can’t be replicated.
He’s certainly made an impression on his player-coach Allen Iverson who said, “a guy like this (Owens), he’s supposed to definitely be in the NBA. He left way too soon. It’s truly a campaign for him.”
A 6-foot-4 point guard, Owens went undrafted out of the University of Houston in 2005 but signed as a free agent with Utah. In his rookie season, Owens appeared in 23 games and even earned a pair of starts. He was a surprising contributor to a mediocre Jazz team, and when the pounding in his left leg started to manifest itself, Owens grit his teeth and continued forward. Then the pain increased. And increased. He began to limp a bit—“shin splints, I figured,” Owens says. Finally, a team doctor insisted upon an X-ray. The results were nightmarish—Owens had been playing with a hairline fracture than extended through his tibia. His season was over after 23 games (he averaged three points, one assist and 1.1 rebounds).
A player Jerry Sloan had repeatedly praised was no longer of service to the organization, and that offseason he was traded to Golden State. “The whole experience changed everything for me,” Owens says. “It’s when I learned—really learned—that it’s all a business, and it’s really not just about talent and drive. It’s about where you’re drafted, how much money you’re owed. Stuff that’s out of your control.”
We are super excited for a second season, of Ice Cube’s 3-on-3 professional basketball league. Some awesome additions have took place in the off-season that include some of the biggest names in hoops. Starting with Drew Gooden, Nate Robinson and Carlos Boozer who were all named to the BIG3 coaching staff. They will begin their season starting on June 22nd at the Toyota Center in Houston, TX. The electrifying court play will include new names like former #1 NBA draft Pick Greg Oden, Quentin Richardson, Baron Davis, A’mare Stoudemire, Smush Parker and Eddy Curry to name a few. Among 20 other players have joined the BIG3 in the off-season.
Allen Iverson, the former coach of Three’s Company will not be returning to coach this year and this news comes via his personal instagram. The newest BIG3 commissioner is hall-of-famer, Clyde Drexler who was announced the new guy in charge on March 15. Nancy Lieberman was named head coach of Power and breaks ground as the first female coach in BIG3.
