It’s NBA meets AARP.
Basketball will soon have its version of golf’s Champions Tour. According to an USA Today report, an independent league for older basketball players, preferably former NBA veterans, is being launched in the summer of 2016.
The Champions League – run by chairman and CEO Carl George (the anti-George Karl) – will consist of sixteen teams and approximately 250 players, including former All-Stars. The schedule will consist of 30 games in July and August.
The details on players involved are scarce, but the report stated three players who will be on the roster of the New York team: former Knicks Rasheed Wallace and Al Harrington, along with ex-Net Maurice Ager.
Harrington played most of two seasons with the Knicks from 2008-10. Wallace’s one season was the Knicks’ 54-win team in 2012-13, when he was credited for his veteran leadership and added to his all-time NBA record for technical fouls.