Basketball
and
AMEN THOMPSON
AUSAR THOMPSON
Tr e n d i n g
E
arlier this year, 19-year-old twin
brothers Amen and Ausar Thompson
were in a small meeting room in
Overtime Elite’s 103,000 square-foot,
state-of-the-moment basketball facility.
Having a twin has its benefits: an inescapable
support system, a life teammate, so to speak.
But for the Thompsons, who in the past two years
have gone from little-known prospects to industry
trailblazers to lottery-level talents, that has also
meant constant competition, including the
central conf lict of the moment: Whose sandwich
was better?The identical
twins, who opted
for Overtime Elite
instead of going to
college, appear on
course to be lottery
picks in the 2023
NBA draft.
By Jeremy Woo
4 8 / SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS“Mine was good, but I needed to put some
mustard on it,” says Amen.
“Exactly,” says Ausar, who picked the turkey.
“So mine was better. Mine had mustard.”
“Yours looked like it had too much mustard,”
his brother contends. Amen alleges Ausar’s
spreading technique was faulty and, therefore,
inferior to his own sandwich, which had no
mustard at all.
Thanks to social media, the twins are known
for NBA-quality dunks, blocks, and passes, but
moments like these are a reminder that the 6' 7"
guards are still very much teenagers. They areCOURTESY OF OVERTIME ELITE (2)