![]() There’s a big advantage to being the dealer, especially in the NBA version of the game, which allows the dealer to choose the trump suit after he looks at his initial five-card hand. Players are dealt five cards, with the dealer flipping over one of his own cards to reveal a trump suit. Played with a standard 52-card deck and with anywhere from two to seven players - but typically four or five - booray is most similar to spades and hearts. Nine years after a game of booray ignited a showdown between Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton - an incident that derailed Arenas’ career, ended Crittenton’s and sent the Wizards into a tailspin - Arenas shares never-before-discussed details with The Action Network about that infamous hand of cards and what really set Crittenton off.īOORAY TRACES ITS origins to the Acadiana region of French Louisiana, Cajun country, and before that, to France and the royal court of King Louis XI, whose finance minister, Jean Bourré, was considered one of his closest confidants. It’s poker meets spades and the cause of numerous skirmishes around the league - including one of the biggest scandals in the history of the sport. The game - Bourré, if you’re from Louisiana, or booray, if you’re from anywhere else - is one of the NBA’s biggest mysteries, a card game played in the backs of airplanes and locker rooms. It was never about the money, and it was never about the fight, and it was most certainly never about the guns. ![]() Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. ![]()
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