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Straight Outta L.A.: Ice Cube’s new BIG3 team is the Riot and ‘here to shake things up’

A tectonic shift in the format of the BIG3 will bring the three-on-three basketball circuit founded by Ice Cube to Los Angeles this summer.

For the first time, the teams will each represent a city as the league transitions in its eighth season to a location-based model. Teams will represent Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Washington, D.C. and — yep! — L.A.

Los Angeles’ team will be called the LA Riot. The coach will be loquacious former Lakers and Clippers guard Nick Younga.k.a. Swaggy P — whose Southland roots run as deep as those of Ice Cube.