SlamBall to return in 2023

SlamBall is making a comeback.

Invented in 1999 by Mason Gordon, SlamBall is a contact sport played on trampolines that combines elements of basketball, football, and hockey. The sport made its television debut in 2002 on The National Network (now the Paramount Network) and aired for two seasons before the league was dissolved.

Gordon is now ready to bring SlamBall back, revealing in an interview with TMZ Sports that the sport will return in the summer of 2023.

"We've gotten opportunities," Gordon said. "Pretty much every couple of months, there will be an opportunity to bring SlamBall back in some form. And my partners and I have always looked at it and said, 'We're not gonna come back until the market conditions are, like, really optimal,' and the alternate sports marketplace is just on fire. And there's a reason for that. Younger audiences are really out there looking for, like, what sport can I call my own? Because a lot of them aren't watching two-and-a-half-hour, three-hour long broadcasts anymore.

"SlamBall just kind of fits the bill. They're 20-minute games, television half hours. People always really gravitated to the action, and it's this incredible mash-up between basketball, football, hockey, little bit of gymnastics, little bit of video games. That's just SlamBall, you get a whole lot in one neat, tidy little package."

Gordon said there are more details to come about SlamBall's return and added that they'll be looking for athletes "that really dominate with their physicality."