Errick McCollum is an accomplished overseas basketball player, the older brother of Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum. Errick and his team, Overseas Elite, have gained popularity and established themselves as a dynasty in The Basketball Tournament, an open tournament with a $2 million prize to be shared by the winning team. When McCollum went to cash in his first prize check for winning TBT, he wasn’t sure if it’d clear, as he told Tim Casey of Deadpsin in a profile:
But McCollum was skeptical. The games were real, the competition exactly as formidable as advertised, but he still thought that maybe it was still somehow a scam.