Category: BeerCityHoops

Fortune favors The 500 Club

Only three players in the history of the Gr3g League have amassed over 500 total career points.

In the lead overall is D Nags with 553 points. “Uncle Dan” is a fan favorite who has played in 72 games over 5-plus seasons.

The race for second place is a continued on-and-off race between lifetime players Silky and Money.

Silky takes the lead for now at 512 while Money is right on his tail at 511.

This is a race to watch over the entirety of Year 6.

Coming in next on the list to potentially cross the 500 line are T-Roof at 485, B. Buckets at 450, and Gr3g at 420.

Cuervo at 370, Kid A at 369, and Good Job James at 329 all have the opportunity to hit the 400-point career mark later this season.

City of Bridges wins Year 5

Repeat Champions!

 

City of Bridges completed a 3-0 Finals Series to take home their second consecutive Gr3g League championship. 

After an opening week win over the Rhythm, the Blues stole a late victory in week two over the Hearts and finished the sweep with a confirmation of their title in a week three win over the Fire. 

Year 5 & Finals MVP T-Roof led the way while D Nags, the league’s all-time leading scorer, scored the final points of Year 5.

Check out the action here. 

Year 5 Finals include City, Rhythm, Fire & Hearts

Round-Robin Finals begin This week

The regular season of is over and the Finals Series is set for the 2nd annual Gr3g League 4-Team Round-Robin Finals Event.

Last year’s champions City of Bridges returns to the Finals as the #1 seed after a 14-4 season. Last year’s runner-up Rhythm: River North finds themselves at 13-5 as the #2 seed. These two historic franchises will meet in Game One with a chance to secure the easiest path to the Year 5 Title.

The Bridge Street Fire secured the #3 seed with a 12-5 record and they’ll face off against the #4 seed West Leonard Hearts. The two newest teams to the league face off in a Ward 1 battle.

Winners of these games will face off in Week 2 of the Finals to secure the opportunity to go 3-0 and confirm the Championship.

In Week 3, the teams face off with the remaining unplayed opponent with everything on the line.

If multiple teams go 2-1, the first tiebreaker is total point differential in the Finals Series.

The second tiebreaker is 63-point victories in the Finals Series.

The third tiebreaker is total team 3Gs made in the Finals Series.

The fourth and final tiebreaker is Year 5 regular season victories.

Legends of the Lake announce plan to return for Year 6

The Legends of the Lake have announced that the team in gold & purple will return to the Gr3g League for Year 6 (2025-26) to

begin the Fall 2025 session.

Headlined by the return to the League of the original commissioner, Lost Ang3l.

Also known as LT the Referee to his YouTube subscribers, the soon-to-be 49-year-old will head up operations during the summer recruiting season for the Legends.

OFF-COURT Rules of the Gr3g League

Thank you to everyone for your involvement in the League. Please remember we are here to bring joy and have fun, too!



ON/OFF-COURT Rules of BeerCityHoops 5v5 are as follows:

-Do it like Stuart Scott. “Be as cool as the other side of the pillow.”

-RESPECT the game, the players, other teams & the gym(s)

FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE RESPECT RULE WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE FORFEITURE OF MEMBERSHIP

-Bring hustle not the harm (we go to work off court, too)

-Know your scheduled game times; please Arrive on Time

-Teams will be given time (10-min?) to warm up before games

-Please stay off main court while live games are going on

TRADE RESCINDED (edit) Ligers and Nets settle up on a trade

This trade has been rescinded, retroactive to October 23rd, after Crain did not show up to games. His agent has not commented or responded.  

Return of the Crain

The Roundball Ruckus Ligers have acquired the rights to Crain Wreck from the Sixth Street Nets in exchange for Gr3g, who recently passed 300 career points.

Crain’s return is still week-to-week. Gr3g has chosen to wear #15 for the Nets.

The roster changes goes into effect immediately.

Welcome to Year 5!

Week 1: promising futures are in

Welcome back to the Gr3g League!

Week one of Year 5 is here and we’re excited to bring you a full season of “dive bar” basketball.

Opening up the season with the 200th overall game, the City of Bridges returned to the court for the first time since hoisting the trophy after their 3-0 Final series run last season against their main rivals, the Roundball Ruckus Ligers. Coming into the game the Bridges led the all-time series 7-4.

The Ligers got out to an early lead, nearly gave it up late in the game and had to watch a game-tying buzzer-beating three by Money ricochet off the stanchion just to get the W.

City of Bridges notes:

  • D Nags played in his 50th league game and moved his points total to 407, both are BeerCityHoops records.
  • Kid A changed his number to #40.
  • Money surpassed 300 career points (307).
  • RossTy returned to the court after a season off following an Achilles injury.

Roundball Ruckus Ligers notes:

  • $ilky became the second player to surpass 350 career points (356).
  • Scotty J returned to the league after a season away.

The game consisted of the top-6 active scorers:

D Nags (407), Silky (356), B. Buckets (342), Kid A (333), Money (307) & Gr3g (291).

ACTIVE PLAYERS SCORING LIST

Game 2 tested the waters of the 2nd Ward as the Rhythm: River North versus the Sixth Street Nets.

The Rhythm return this season as the prohibitive favorite to challenge City for the title. Cope returns to Rhythm for another year of defensive annoyance (including a personal dislike of the expertise at his craft by this writer) with Trav & Parker still navigating the way. DJ Seven8z, a Year 1 champion with the now-retired Hawks returned to the mix, this time in Rhythm.

The Nets on the other hand, looked like your favorite show coming back for season 3 with a new supporting cast.

Rueben “Juice” moved to North Carolina. Bowen Arrows is out with an ankle injury. TK, Smitty and C Bake are retired for now. Word is Evinrude may also be out for the season after playing in Week 1.

Zach Baker & Greeny are back. Rookies joining the Nets in teal and purple are Jon V, For LeeS, B. Baker and JoJo.

The Rhythm showed off the size disparity early and often as they out rebounded the Nets 38-31, mirroring the 36-31 final score.

Game 3 brought together the two newest teams in the League, Ward 1 rivals West Leonard Hearts and Bridge Street Fire.

Coming off a 8-7 record in their inaugural BeerCityHoops season, the Hearts return all of their players and add rookies Eliseo and Frobe Huncho. This team of mostly guards can get to the hoop and shoot the three, sometimes doing too much of one or the other. Getting Hamlet involved in the middle will be key to their success.

The Fire put together a nearly brand new squad over the summer. Big Baby recruited Splash, added B (Ben) and BK off the free agent market, then trading for Hengy and the rights to his recruits Big Max and Powell. This team is bigger than most of the other teams but will need to gel quickly and get steady guard play to burn it up.

Where there’s smoke…is the Fire burning?

Shots fired?

Sources have Big Baby recruiting up in Belknap Hills hoping to reunite some former champions from the original Hawks squad.

Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Hoops, Gr3g is being mentioned in a return to the Legends of the Lake, dependent on whether or not the League is able to expand to eight teams from six.

What’s next for the Bridge Street Fire?

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