Rapper and actor Ice Dice, co-founder of the Big3 basketball league, has referred to as on the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA) to drop a bylaw he believes is unfairly hindering his league’s progress.
In a latest interview with JR Sportbrief on WFAN Sports activities Radio, Ice Dice expressed his frustration with the NBA’s rule that prohibits NBA crew homeowners from investing in competing leagues.
“The NBA has a bylaw that states that nobody who owns an NBA crew can put money into a competing league,” Ice Dice defined. “The Big3 is nice. We acquired among the greatest gamers that ever performed the sport taking part in three-on-three. However under no circumstances, form, or kind are we competing with the NBA, so they should reduce that out.”
The Big3, knowledgeable 3-on-3 basketball league, was based in 2017 by Ice Dice and leisure govt Jeff Kwatinetz. The league options former NBA gamers and has gained recognition for its distinctive format and aggressive video games.
Regardless of its success, Ice Dice argues that the NBA’s bylaw limits the Big3’s potential by proscribing its pool of potential traders.
“The one factor that they’ll’t put money into is the Big3, and we expect it’s ridiculous,” Ice Dice acknowledged.
He additional defined that the bylaw impacts not solely present NBA crew homeowners but additionally those that aspire to personal an NBA crew sooner or later.
“Any individual who desires to personal a crew sooner or later, they’re not gonna get a Big3 crew if they’ve a dream to personal the Mavericks sooner or later or The Suns or no matter.”
Ice Dice’s name to motion is evident: “They should drop the clause. It not solely impacts present NBA crew homeowners, however future homeowners.”
He believes the NBA ought to get rid of the bylaw fully or cease contemplating the Big3 as a aggressive league.
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