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We’ve cancelled all scheduled events until October 2020.
We already miss you.
It’s only been a couple days since the council decided it was time to cancel Opening Day and just yesterday the decision was made to cancel the entire schedule of theGR3Gleague for the summer of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across our world right now.
With the help of our colleagues at the City of Grand Rapids Parks and Recreation Department, we’ve been able to keep our league intact. All of our funding comes directly from donations, product investments, and sales including via our Poshmark store. The City was very gracious in refunding the cost of facilities. We will gladly support the Parks Dept. throughout our future ventures and thank them for their hospitality.
While we don’t have any safe, healthy options to get together and hoop out at the local parks together, we still have online capabilities to share your best basketball videos from the front yard, basement, inside the barn, laundry rooms or your indoor mini court!
Stay tuned to our media feed for some upcoming fun from all around the Dirty Water Tavern, the studio, basement booze closet, Chet’s front porch, and maybe even a virtual debate in the near future. Care to join us? Send an e-mail to info@beercityhoops.com or use the website to REGISTER for theGR3Gleague or join the Facebook Group: GR3G hoops.
theGR3Gleague taps April 4th as Opening Day
We’re getting ready for the 2020 3-on-3 hoops tour with a day out playing by “GR3G league” rules on Saturday, April 4th at Roosevelt Park Gym.
Friends and neighbors of all ages are welcome to join the festivities and/or play (casual & competitive hoops) for your favorite local brewery team and take home bragging rights, prizes from the hosts and more.
Get info about our outdoor pickup league, which takes place Monday evenings at Lincoln Park all summer for hoops and find out where we’ll be on Tuesdays for hops & pops at your local favorite brewery.
FREE TO PLAY, $33/suggested donation. RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY!
Located on Grand Rapids’ SouthWest side, the park and gym are located at 739 Van Raalte Dr SW, 49503.
Learn more about us at our website.
https://beercityhoops.com/thegr3gleague/
theGR3Gleague starts on Monday!
Join BeerCityHoops and local breweries (TwoGuys, Creston & more) at Lincoln Park on Grand Rapids’ WestSide every Monday around 7pm for #theGR3Gleague, a casual, co-ed, competitive 3-on-3 league built around growing relationships between neighbors, local businesses and organizations.
Player entry is free for the first 4 people to sign up to represent their favorite local brewery. After each team has 4 players assigned, new registrations will require the purchase of your own logo shirt from the brewery team you would like to play for.
The rules of the GR3G league 3-on-3 are as follows:
- games are played on a half-court
- the GR3G league uses the on-court arc (usually 19’9″), with shots from outside the arc worth 2 points and inside worth 1 point
- shots from designated “3G” circles (located at 23′) are worth three-points, a player must take the shot from inside the circle
- determined by brewery locations, the nearest “home” team inbounds first
- shot clock runs 33 seconds (where available)
- shooting foul creates one free throw per number of points as the shot, all free throws are worth 1 point and are taken from the free throw line
- players receive one dead-ball free throw if fouled on a made shot, possession will then change
- players are allowed 3 personal fouls before fouling out (casual, competitive builds rapport, relationships)
- teams must begin the game with 3 players and may finish with only one player
- to win, a team must score exactly 33 points or the opposing team runs out of players/forfeits
- halftime happens as one team reaches 21 points
- each team receives two 60-second timeouts
- substitutions can be made on a dead ball or by calling timeout
- the referee must distribute the ball to the opposing team beyond the 23′ arc line after each score
- the inbounding player is free to dribble or pass the ball inbounds
- defensive rebounds/steals must be cleared only if the ball touched the rim, the ball is cleared when the opposing player with the ball establishes both feet behind the 3-point line
- all defensive strategies are allowed
- we use a size 29.5 game ball
BeerCitySports’ inaugural Hall of Fame Class
BeerCitySports is proud to announce our inaugural Hall of Fame inductees, the Class of 2019.
Induction Ceremony to take place at the Roll-It-Out Skating Fundraiser for HQ on February 17th at the Kentwood Fun Spot. Tickets are available here.
Posthumously:
- Chris Napieralski
- “Uncle Bob” Schab
- Pete Camp
GC’s Originals:
- 1986-87 St. Paul the Apostle Cougars
- Those Langley Boys (1987 Gus Macker)
Current Legends:
- Michael “Pops” Sims
- Allen “The Hulk” Durham
- Marco Wilkinson
Anybody but (Derek) Anderson….I don’t know his first name.
Chris Napieralski on The 3-Point Turn podcast talking Arizona Cardinals football
Are you ready to #RepThe616 for your neighborhood park this summer?
Yes, you say? Grand Rapids, we’re ready for you!
The GR3 League is a local community-based, park-centric 3-on-3 casual, co-ed basketball league that pits Grand Rapids’ neighborhoods head-to-head in friendly competition with a focus on growing personal and business relationships, building rapport through hoops and having a couple pints with new friends afterward at a local establishment all for the good of our local youth basketball and sports programs and maintaining our City Park basketball courts.
Fill out the form below to let us know who you are, where you play and if you’d like to be a part of our inaugural season in the summer of 2019?