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Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman and Power have won the BIG3 championship.
League MVP Corey Maggette scored 27 points to lead Power to a 51-43 victory over 3’s Company on Friday night in the championship game. Cuttino Mobley made a jumper for the final basket, pushing Power to the 50-point mark needed to win.
Power finished 9-1, counting the playoffs, in the second season of the 3-on-3 league of former NBA players co-founded by entertainer Ice Cube, who performed before the game at Barclays Center. It was Lieberman’s first season coaching Power, who by league rule will return their roster intact next season.
Serena Williams says her relationship with the French Open is fine despite the Grand Slam tournament’s plan to ban her skin-tight black catsuit.
Williams says she has spoken with the French Tennis Federation president, who said in Tennis Magazine the outfit would no longer be accepted.
Williams said Saturday she no longer needs to wear it because she found that compression tights also work to keep her blood circulating. She dealt with a health scare related to blood clots after giving birth to her daughter last Sept. 1, when she missed the U.S. Open.
She joked that “when it comes to fashion, you don’t want to be a repeat offender.”
Former Oklahoma star Blake Griffin returned to campus Saturday for the dedication of the Griffin Family Performance Center.
The AP Player of the Year in 2009 made the largest donation ever from a Sooner basketball player to help with the $7 million center.
Griffin plays for the Detroit Pistons, and the NBA club will train at the facility before its Oct. 3 preseason game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The school’s Board of Regents agreed to name the facility for Griffin, but he wanted his family included. Griffin said his brother, former Sooner Taylor Griffin, helped with the planning.