The NBA won’t be back until July 30, but competitive basketball will return much sooner than that. The Basketball Tournament, which features the best players in the world who aren’t on an NBA roster, begins on July 4, and some former Sacramento Kings will be front and center.
TBT is a single-elimination winner-take-all tournament — with the Elam Ending! — where one of the 24 teams will win $1 million. It’s being held without fans this seasons as players quarantine in Columbus, Ohio for the duration of the competition.
The tournament is always a who’s who of players who dominated college basketball or had a cup of the coffee in the NBA, sometimes more, but didn’t quite stick, and that is the case once again in 2020.