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Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball: Family Holiday!

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After the biggest tournament of the summer, 3×3 EuroTour Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball, our championship continued with a third tournament, this time in our traditional location, the University of Politehnica Bucharest. It was like a family holiday, and almost all the members were here. Meaning that 200 teams and 800 players, who battled hard for every point of the game and also for points in the standings. It was the last chance for every player to add points for the Master Tournament, who will feature the best of the…

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From streets, to the Olympics

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Sport Arena Streetball, together with the Romanian Basketball Federation, launched a campaign to support the road of 3×3 basketball, from streets, to the Olympic Games.  Prior to the 3×3 EuroTour Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball, many Romanian sports personalities, former Olympic champions, Olympic medalists or with excellent results in other world stage competitions showed their support for 3×3 basketball, who is trying to became and Olympic discipline this year. Legends like Gheorghe Hagi, the greatest Romanian footballer of all time, and one of the greatest in the world, Elisabeta Lipa,…

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Sky was the limit for the 3×3 EuroTour Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball

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The biggest 3×3 tournament in the history of Romanian basketball, 3×3 EuroTour Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball, gathered last weekend more than 10.000 people, players and spectators, in front of the largest civilian building in the world, The Palace of Parliament from Bucharest. A lot of public personalities support 3×3 basketball during campaign “From the streets to the Olympics”. “From the streets, to the Olympics”, a message for all the 3×3 basketball fans who are dreaming to reach the highest stage in sports. A great movie regarding this campaign can…

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Darlington named World King of Dunk in Bucharest

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Justin Darlington proved once again that he is the best dunker in the world, crushing any competition at the World King of Dunk, a contest held in Bucharest, Romania, at 3×3 EuroTour Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball. Featuring the new worldwide sensation Porter Maberry, the shortest dunker in the world, Aleksandr Shalygin and Kristaps Dargais, two of the best european dunkers and of course, Darlington, the dunk contest from Bucharest was the best so far this year. With former NBA player and european legend Jorge Garbajosa in the jury, the…

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IOC official to observe Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball

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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Programme Commission member Walter Sieber has been confirmed to attend an International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Europe 3×3 EuroTour event in Bucharest next month ahead of the discipline’s Rio 2016 inclusion review. Sieber (pictured left), a Vancouver 2010 Board member and former Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) vice-president, will attend the World Tour qualifier as part of the IOC’s observers programme – which was first put in place ahead of the Sochi 2014 programme review – to examine disciplines and events for the Rio 2016 Olympic sports programme. The…

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Season debut at Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball

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Wizz Air Sport Arena Streetball, main 3×3 basketball championship from Romania, started last weekend in Bucharest, with over 170 teams and more than 700 players ready to take off from the streets to the Olympics. It was a stormy start of the ninth season, with the windy and rainy weather playing hide-and-seek with the organizers, but in the end basketball was the big winner and everybody celebrated the return of the 3×3 basketball in their lives, after almost seven months. The four Sport Arena Courts, from University of Politehnica Bucharest were…

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Sport Arena Streetball on the world stage

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Sport Arena Streetball, the only 3×3 basketball championship from Romania, prepares for the start of its ninth season. The competition became, over the years, one of the most important in Europe and even in the world. Since 2005, Sport Arena Streetball gathered more than 7000 teams and 28.000 players, and had in the audience more than 80.000 spectators. Starting the 2013 season, Sport Arena Streetball will register its tournaments and players on the global platform of FIBA, www.3x3planet.com, after a deal reached with the International Basketball Federation. This way, all…

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New rules for 3×3 basketball

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The International Basketball Federation published the new „Rules of the game” for 3×3 basketball, which will be applied starting the 2013 season. The most significant change regards the ball. The use of a size 6 ball is now mandatory in both genders and throughout all categories. Last year, a size 6 ball was used for the first time in a male competition at the FIBA 3×3 World Championship U18 in Spain, where the Romanian national team finished sixth. Another important change regards the clearance of the ball. According to the…

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Sport Arena Streetball – The story

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe” Anatole France It was almost a decade ago when some young guys were playing day in and day out 3×3 basketball on some terrible concrete courts. They weren’t thinking at all that someday this game could be part of the Olympic Games. But they had a dream. In that dream appeared some nice courts, more people than just their friends and friends of friends, contests with prizes bigger than just the pride…

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Bucharest will candidate for 2016 WUC 3×3 basketball

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Bucharest, the Capital City of Romania, will candidate for the organization of the 2016 World University Championship 3×3 Basketball. The official announcement was made by Claudia Georgescu, director of the School and University Sport Federation (FISU member), during Sport Arena Streetball Awards, a ceremony that ended officially the 2012 Romanian 3×3 basketball season. Sport Arena Streetball, who developed in the last eight years in one of the best 3×3 basketball competitions from all over the world, is ready to make the next step, a natural one, and will co-organize this…

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