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But beyond the Xs and O’s, Hamby has focused on showing Burrell how to navigate the professional basketball world.

Unlike tic-tac-toe, in which two players simply try to get three Xs or three Os in a row in a nine-box grid, “Tic-Tac-Dough” required contestants to select a subject category in each of the nine boxes, everything from geography to song titles.

And he just put Xs through them.”

The performance spaces in the shape of Xs, Os and triangles resembled PlayStation controller buttons.

It is often called a violent chess match, and if you have ever seen inside a playbook and seen each play drawn up in Xs and Os fashion, you would have to agree.