SPOKANE -- The hustle started when the twins were grade-schoolers.
On Larkey Park's concrete court near their Walnut Creek, California, home, Sabrina and Eddy Ionescu took on unsuspecting marks in games of two-on-two. Five bucks to the winner.
"Swear to God, we never lost," Eddy said.
Cash in hand, they floated to a 7-Eleven nearby. "We got Slurpees," Sabrina recalled Sunday, beaming at the memory.
As they grew older, the tactics grew more sophisticated. If Eddy's youth teams were short a player, he'd tell his sister to get her sneakers from the car, and the game was on.