J.R. Smith, a former NBA player who is now a college student, is teaming up with Jerry Jones’ Complexity Gaming to host a Call of Duty tournament for students from historically black colleges and universities. The Complexity Stars HBCU Rebirth Rumble, which will take place on Twitch on February 28 to commemorate Black History Month, will award $10,000 in prizes.
The game will be played on the Rebirth Island map from Call of Duty: Warzone. Students from historically black colleges and universities will compete in three-person teams, each led by a Complexity Stars athlete or Call of Duty influencer. NFL running back Leonard Fournette, MLB pitcher Edwin Rios, and UFC fighters Sean O’Malley and Megan Anderson are among the other athletes competing.
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Complexity will also promote a charity drive for The HBCU Foundation during the tournament, which will be produced by esports operations company Boom.TV. Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, bought Complexity in 2017 and opened the GameStop Performance Center for competitive gaming on-campus at the Cowboys’ practice facility in 2019.
Smith played 16 NBA seasons and won two championships, most recently with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. He enrolled last year at North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU, where he’s pursuing a degree in liberal studies and is on the school’s Division-I golf team.
