Ice Cube expands Big3 basketball league amid challenges

Ice Cube visits the “Sway in the Morning” show at the SiriusXM Studios in December in New York. But Cube and his business partner, entertainment executive Jeff Kwatinetz, also revealed some ongoing challenges facing the league, including the end of its two-year TV contract with Fox Sports. Big3 has spent much of the last year locked in a bitter legal dispute with a Qatari investment firm and has struggled to recruit a deep-pocketed investor to help back the league’s hoped-for bid for the Fox sports channels. “It’s going to be very heavy on Fox News — which is fine.” Cube added: “We definitely want to work with people who see the world as we see it.” Fox Sports, for its part, declined to say why it no longer wanted to televise Big3 games. But even Cube’s and Kwatinetz’s efforts to recruit a backer to help finance their bid for the Fox sports channels appear to have fallen short.