We’d have to call this a mismatch.
Norris Cole, a two-time NBA champion with the Miami Heat, now works at Trinity High School in Pennsylvania, where they have a students vs. teachers basketball game.
And yeah, one of the players on the teachers team was Cole himself, a talented guard who teamed with those Big Three groups in Miami.
He was just a bit better than everyone else on the court.
The highlights are going viral, because Cole was out there doing ridiculous things:
NBA legend Norris Cole played in a student vs. teachers game… he’s the girls basketball coach at Trinity High in PA.
It went about how you’d expect. 🏀 pic.twitter.com/wlOOHpBXCt
— The All-American (@AllAmericanSN) February 28, 2026
It’s certainly a good reminder that while lots of people can play basketball to some extent, NBA players are operating in a whole different stratosphere.
Those on the floor were lucky Cole wasn’t a lanky forward or something who could also go out there and dunk all over them.
Those long-range shots were more than enough in what looks to have worked out as a surprisingly competitive matchup.
In a setting like that, Cole surely also spent some time deferring and trying to get his fellow staff members a few buckets.
In the end, though, it was always going to be about Cole being miles better than everyone else on the floor.
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