The Man Who Got Cooked by a WNBA Player Is Now a Celebrity Basketball Judge, and I Have So Many Feelings

The man who got publicly dismantled by a WNBA professional on his own stream is now a celebrity basketball judge. Welcome to the N3on cinematic universe, darlings.

Less than three weeks ago, Rae Burrell ended his hoop dreams in front of his own audience. Yahoo Sports ran it. We ran it. It was not subtle.

And then Sac State's Hornet Madness called. Per KCRA and Hoodline, N3on showed up to Sacramento State's season-opening basketball event on October 9th as a celebrity judge, standing next to Ronnie 2K. Ronnie 2K. The man who has been courtside at actual NBA games for the better part of a decade. That Ronnie 2K.

Is this a redemption arc? Is this institutions simply not doing their homework before handing out celebrity credentials? Possibly both.

Here is what makes this more than just funny. In roughly the same stretch, N3on's stream became the place where Carlos Prates apparently leaked an Islam Makhachev UFC title fight announcement, per EssentiallySports. Major UFC news broke on his channel. By accident. Sac State put him on a panel with one of basketball gaming's most recognized faces. These are not the moves of a platform anyone is ignoring.

The audacity of the trajectory is something to behold. From getting crossed up by a professional athlete to judging college players. From allegedly breaking a $250,000 promise to Tsarukyan to being handed a clipboard in a university gymnasium and treated like a legitimate sports authority.

We love growth. We also refuse to let go of the Rae Burrell footage.

N3on's brand is now large enough that institutions will credential him regardless of what happened on his stream two Tuesdays ago, my loves. Keep receipts, because this is only going to get stranger.

He will be courtside at an NBA game before the year is out. That is not a prediction, that is a scheduling conflict waiting to happen.