ATLANTA — The Triplets trailed Bivouac 41-31 in the second half of the BIG3 matchup in State Farm Arena on Sunday, July 6.
For context, the game ends when the first team scores 50 points. The captain of the Triplets is Joe Johnson, and the captain of Bivouac is Josh Smith.
Smith scored 20 of Bivouac’s first 28 points, shooting three-for-four from three-point range. Smith bumped Johnson after every basket he made.
“It’s always like that. We both still live here in Atlanta,” Johnson said of his neighbor, Smith. “We still play pickup basketball together, and the games are pretty much exactly like that.