When Unrivaled Basketball tips off for its inaugural season on Friday night, it will be a different kind of basketball than fans are used to. While women’s college basketball and the WNBA use a five-on-five format, Unrivaled will be three-on-three. But this brand of basketball won't be completely new to all the players.
FIBA’s version of 3x3 basketball has been around since 2007, but it wasn't introduced as an Olympic sport until Tokyo in 2020. Several Unrivaled players have played 3x3 at the highest level — Jackie Young, Stefanie Dolson and Allisha Gray won the first Olympic gold for the U.