Triple fun with the Pireaus

I am sleepless, once again. So I just came up with something fun to write, just as I promised. This is something I want to explain to the basketball audience, in case this blog is ever read by somebody who knows friends who play basketball together. It is the best game in the world ever, the funniest one,and it is about three-pointers. We call it... the Pireaus.

The more people, the better. It is about shooting three-pointers. You have an order of players and you have to shoot. If you hit, you shoot again until you miss or until you reach 3. Once the first player reaches 3, you have to complete the round. Once the round is over, the player with less three-pointers made is eliminated and the remaining ones start a new round.

If there is a tie, players who are tied for the least three-pointers made have to play the tie-breaker. Shoot until one misses and the other hits, then the first one is out. You eliminate one player per round until the two survivors play the final.

It is fun as it can be. Centers who cannot hit three-pointers and lucky and stay alive in the competition longer than elite shooters. You shoot under pressure and you laugh a lot. It is the best basketball game in the world ever, the best basketball game other than basketball. And sometimes, much more fun than basketball itself.

And why the Pireaus, I hear you ask? Only because we created the game out of the blue, in a practice of a team called Papadopoulos All-Stars in the City League of my hometown Sevilla. Since we had a Greek name, the loser was sent "to the Pireaus (al Pireo)". The shouts of "AL PIREEOOOO!!!!!" when someone lost actually gave a name to this game. Al Pireo was an euphemism for Al Carajo (go and fuck off).

Some friends can't play basketball anymore. But we meet to play in just one hoop and then we play Pireaus all the time. It is something you can play at age 60. It is great.

And we all love it. Long life the Pireaus and the three-point line!

Javi