Hello, Lakers Nation.

Welcome and to the Lakers Nation.com podcast.

I am Trevor Lane, and today we've got a special guest joining.

It's Ice Cube, founder of the Big Three, as well as a few other things.

You just might know him from.

Cube, thanks so much for coming on.

Oh, man, thanks for having me.

So I'm sure you've been keeping up to date with the Olympics,

three on three basketball, an Olympic sport.

We saw the Netherlands ultimately win the gold.

The Big Three has now issued a challenge to the Netherlands team,

say that you want them to play against the Big Three All--stars in Boston with $150,000 on the line.

Can you tell me a little bit about that and kind of where you're at in that whole process?

Well, actually, that's been up to 250 on the line.

And, you know, no disrespect to the Netherlands,

but we believe the USA didn't put our best foot forward.

You know, the big three's been around for seven years, you know,

since 2020, we've been asking, and before,

we've been asking USA basketball to look at our

athletes, you know, treat our athletes like you would treat an NBA athlete.

This is pro 3 and 3.

And so, you know, they haven't, you know, they said thank you, but no thank you.

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