THE GAME OF MY LIFE – Bill Velasco – The Philippine Star October 22, 2022 | 12:00am Since the 1970’s, basketball has constantly been tinkered with across the globe. Street basketball or what we now call 3X3 first spread throughout small open spaces in urban centers around the world. (It first became a national event in the Philippines in 1996.) Roller basketball was tried in New York over 40 years ago, thanks to the effort of NBA forward Tom LaGarde. In the 1990’s retired Los Angeles Lakers guard Magic Johnson organized a celebrity 3-on-3 tournament on a shrunken version of a full court. Even …