![]() In addition to Oden, basketball fans can see more of their favorite former Ohio State players later this summer when The Basketball Tournament, a 5-on-5, winner-take-all event with a $2 million prize, returns for its sixth season. Next week, Oden’s team is scheduled to face the 3-Headed Monsters (most of the team names in the league are three-related). The league expanded to 12 teams this year, and features former NBA players like Amar’e Stoudemire, Lamar Odom and Gilbert Arenas. ![]() Oden played this past weekend as a member of the Aliens team in the opening week of Ice Cube’s Big3 league-a 3-on-3 basketball league currently celebrating its third season. Oden last played on that particular court in 2014, during his final NBA season with the Miami Heat. Most recently, Oden’s basketball career in particular seems to have come full-circle, as his matchup Sunday took place in Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis-the same arena in which Oden (and teammate Mike Conley Jr.) won three state titles as members of Lawrence North High School. ![]() He graduated from the Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in sports industry, and he made his way back onto the basketball court as a player after spending the past couple seasons as a student manager for the Ohio State men’s team. This summer has marked a comeback of sorts for former Ohio State great Greg Oden. All this stuff is just extra.” -Former Ohio State center Greg Oden, via Robert General, Indianapolis Star “I saw my daughter walk down the stairs with my wife and it put a big smile on my face.
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