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3×3 June Fever: Sport Arena starts in style the 2015 season

June 3, 2015 sportarena

Inspired by the famous March Madness, Sport Arena starts the new 3×3 basketball Romanian season with a similar concept, the 3×3 June Fever. With ten consecutive days of 3×3 basketball games and a total of 12 in just two weeks, with three competitions going on one after another, it’s a perfect way to start a summer with plenty events to come. The final rounds of Sprite Streetball Battle – the High School 3×3 Championship, the Final Tournament of the 3×3 University Championships and the first tournament of the season of…

Romania, for the first time at FIBA 3×3 All Star, in Doha

December 9, 2014 sportarena

Romania will be represented for the first time at the FIBA 3×3 All Stars, which will take place in Doha, Qatar, on 12 December. The best 3×3 players in the world will battle for 120.000 USD prize money. Angel Santana, the number one in Europe, will lead Team Bucharest, the only 3×3 basketball team in the world who took part in all FIBA 3×3 World Tour Finals. Santana, European Champion with the Romanian National Team, will play together with Iulian Corneanu and Cristian Craciun, his teammates from Stiinta Bucharest, a…

Romania and Russia, the first ever 3×3 European Champions

September 8, 2014September 11, 2014 sportarena

The center court flooded with people right after the final buzzer of the 3×3 European Championships Men’s Final as Romania had just written history in conquering the first ever title in the competition with a 19-16 win over Slovenia. More than 1,000 fans around the center court and many more outside at the giant TV screen watched as the atmosphere reached its peak in a tremendously intense and close final game. With technical fouls being handed out to both teams, it was a put-back by Bogdan Popescu that gave the hosts the decisive lead, 17-16 in the…

Palo Peak, from Spain, winner of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger 2014

July 31, 2014 sportarena

The Spanish team Palo Peak won the third edition of the Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, played in the Romanian capital, between 26 and 27 of July. The Spanish players received a 4000 USD money prize and they qualified for FIBA 3×3 World Tour Masters in Prague. After two tough games in the quarter finals and semifinals, not even them could believe that the final would be the easiest game. But the long range shots hit their target and everything became easy against Team Tricolorii, the Romanian National Team in fact,…

The third edition of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger is ready to go

July 17, 2014July 17, 2014 sportarena

For the third consecutive year, Bucharest will host the strongest 3×3 basketball tournament from South-East of Europe, Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger. During two days, 26-27 of July, 12 of the best European teams, together with the best four local teams will battle for a place in FIBA 3×3 World Tour a total money prize of 5000 USD. The winner will get 4000 USD and will qualify for the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Prague Masters, while the second place will receive 1000 USD. Teams from Albania, Andorra, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia,…

The show is in Bucharest: Third edition of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

July 7, 2014 sportarena

Some of the best 3×3 basketball teams from Europe will battle for a place in FIBA 3×3 World Tour Prague during the third edition of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, a competition organized by Sport Arena, 26-27 July, in one of the most iconic places in Bucharest, the University Square. The FIBA 3×3 Competition Network is growing and more and more tournaments with a satellite status will send their winners to Bucharest Challenger, the next step in their road to the world stage. Satellites from Kosovo, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Georgia…

FIBA.com: Sport Arena Streetball offers first test for Romanian National Teams

May 21, 2014 sportarena

Both men and women’s Romanian national teams showed they will be a force to be reckoned with in Moscow at the upcoming FIBA 3×3 World Championships on 5-8 June, after winning the first stage of the Sport Arena Streetball quest on 16-18 May. 157 teams gathered in Bucharest, the Mecca of 3×3, to kick off the 10-year anniversary season of the Sport Arena Streetball Quest. The event featured a lot of familiar faces as a generation of players has grown up with the event and gone from the U14, to…

Bucharest will host the first ever 3×3 European Championship

February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 sportarena

FIBA Europe announced on Tuesday that the inaugural 3×3 European Championships will be hosted by Bucharest, the city dubbed by Sports Illustrated as “the unlikely mecca of 3×3.” The decision was arrived upon by the FIBA Europe Executive Committee during a meeting in Munich on 25 February. Set to take place in University Square in downtown Bucharest from 5-7 September, the best 16 European Men’s and Women’s teams will compete in the event. Romania has already developed a long and credible history in the sport of 3×3 basketball, despite the relatively…

New rules for 3×3, tested in Bucharest for the first time

February 10, 2014February 10, 2014 sportarena

Called “Mecca of 3×3 basketball” by Sports Illustrated, Bucharest was the host, last weekend, of the first tournament played by the new rules of the game announced by FIBA a few days ago. Featuring some of the best Romanian players, including World Tour and 3×3 EuroTour stars Angel Santana, Catalin Bordei and Alin Spahiu, the Raiffeisen Streetball by Sport Arena was included in a urban sports festival called Street Heroes and had a massive success. Over 4000 people packed an old hangar of a dismantled airplane motor factory during the one…

Doha is getting prepared for the FIBA 3×3 All Stars

November 14, 2013 sportarena

Doha, Qatar is getting prepared for the first-ever FIBA 3×3 All Stars on 12 December 2013, which will see the best 3×3 teams in the world compete for a grand total of 120,000 USD in one of the best locations in the world. Katara Beach will host the new endpoint to the 3×3 season with six of the best teams in the world bringing their A-Game for a dynamic four-hour event. Invited as 2013 FIBA 3×3 World Tour winners, Team Brezovica (SLO) will get to see familiar faces in Doha with Team Novi Sad…