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Ice Cube's Big3 Professional 3-on-3 Basketball Rebounds to CBS

ALSO: The Old Man & the Gun, The Last Bridesmaid, To Have and to Hold, SNL, and more
  • Ice Cube's Big3 professional basketball league moves to CBS for the opener of its third season. (CBS)
    Ice Cube's Big3 professional basketball league moves to CBS for the opener of its third season. (CBS)

    Sports fans looking for something fun this summer may want to check out Big3, the professional 3-on-3 basketball league co-founded by Ice Cube. Featuring star NBA players, Big3 plays the game by its own rules, and it's shaking things up even further in its third season, dropping the minimum player age to 27, expanding the league from eight to twelve teams, and moving the broadcasts from Fox Sports to CBS and CBS Sports Network, where they'll air live coverage two days a week (three games each day).

    SEASON OPENER: BIG3 Basketball: Detroit kicks off the league's third season in Motor City with the first of three games. 8:00PM ET on CBS

    CABLE PREMIERE: HBO's big Saturday Night movie premiere this week is The Old Man & the Gun, featuring what may or may not be Robert Redford's final onscreen performance. Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker, the film follows the exploits of an elderly master of bank robberies and prison escapes (Redford), who breaks out of San Quentin, only to find love and excitement pursuing Jewel (Sissy Spacek) while being pursued by police detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck).  8:00 PM ET (HBO)

    TV MOVIE PREMIERE: Becca (Rachel Boston) has long been a bridesmaid but never a bride, but when she meets Kyle (Paul Campbell), the videographer documenting her cousin's wedding, her days as The Last Bridesmaid may be drawing to a close. Watch the trailer. 9:00 PM ET on Hallmark

    TV MOVIE PREMIERE: To Have and to Hold finds Alice (Erika Christensen) preparing to marry her teenage crush Joe (Antonio Cupo), a wealthy and successful businessman, but is her ideal man everything that he seems? Based on the novel by Jane Green. 8:00 PM ET on Lifetime

    ALSO TONIGHT

    • Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau takes a final look at the bizarre case involving a wealthy CEO and two suspicious deaths. 6:00 PM ET on Oxygen
    • Murder and Justice: The Case of Martha Moxley revisits evidence in the infamous 1975 killing that rocked an affluent community and implicated a Kennedy family cousin. 7:00 PM ET on Oxygen
    • Live PD sends its camera crews out on live patrol with real law enforcement officers across the country. 9:00 PM ET on A&E
    • Saturday Night Live re-airs its May 18th season finale, with host Paul Rudd and musical guest DJ Khaled. 11:30 PM ET on NBC

    Joe Reid is the senior writer at Primetimer and co-host of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast. His work has appeared in Decider, NPR, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Slate, Polygon, Vanity Fair, Vulture, The A.V. Club and more.

    TOPICS: Big3, CBS, CBS Sports Network, Ice Cube, Sports