Tag: 3×3 basketball

Celebratory finale at BCR Sport Arena Streetball 2024

Andu Kedei

The exhibition match featuring Andrei Pavel, Anghel Damian, and Virgil Stănescu against the 2014 European champions marked a grand conclusion to the 2024 season of the BCR Sport Arena Streetball national 3×3 basketball circuit. The event took place over the weekend on the courts of Politehnica University Bucharest. More than 570 teams and 2,500 players participated throughout this season’s six BCR Sport Arena Streetball tournaments, which featured 950 3×3 basketball games. The final event coincided with the 10th anniversary of Romania’s 2014 European Championship win in 3×3 basketball. Angel Santana,…

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Romania becomes European Universities 3×3 basketball champions

Andu Kedei

The University Politehnica team won the four-day tournament held in Debrecen from July 12-15. On July 12, the first day of the competition, the Romanian men’s national team made its debut against one of the host teams, Szechenyi Istvan University, with a score of 21-9. It was a strong start for the quartet made up of Amedeo Casale, Nicolae Ciucă, Bobe Nicolescu, and Marius Ciotlăuș, all players in Romania’s National Basketball League. The semifinal match, however, promised to be even tougher. University Politehnica faced Vytautas Magnus University, a team composed…

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Euro 2024 spirit at the 3×3 Basketball Nations League matches

Andu Kedei

One of the most exciting moments of the FIBA 3×3 Youth Nations League tournament was offered by Romania’s national team on Sunday evening. The tricolors played on equal footing with Germany, the strongest team in the competition, and the Euro 2024 spirit was fully felt through the crowd’s cheers. The Nations League, a 3×3 basketball competition dedicated to youth teams, hosted a stage in Bucharest for the third consecutive year at ParkLake Shopping Center, and the event was funded by the Sector 3 City Hall through non-reimbursable local budget funds.…

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Urban 3×3 basketball festival at ParkLake Shopping Center: Romania Competes in the Nations League

Andu Kedei

The FIBA 3×3 Youth Nations League, a European 3×3 basketball competition dedicated to youth teams, is set to host a stage in Romania for the third consecutive year at ParkLake Shopping Center, from July 5-7. Romania’s national teams, both men’s and women’s, will face off against teams from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Spain, and Turkey over three days of competition, with the goal of qualifying for the FIBA 3×3 World Cup U23. The matches will take place on the indoor court set up inside ParkLake Shopping Center, and entry…

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Red warning for 3×3 Basketball: incredible performances at BCR Sport Arena Streetball

Andu Kedei

The weekend heatwave put participants of the third stop of the national 3×3 basketball circuit, BCR Sport Arena Streetball, to the test, but it also brought a true red alert for performance. Over 400 players competed from Friday to Sunday in 190 games at the courts of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. The standout individual achievement of the tournament came from Alexandra Vasile, who scored 16 points in the final of the U18 category, leading her team, Tricicleta, to a 21-10 victory over Belelele. Alexandra scored a total of 30…

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Yellow warning for 3×3 basketball

Andu Kedei

An intense weekend is expected with hundreds of matches at Poli Arena during the third stop of the 2024 BCR Sport Arena Streetball season. After the first two tournaments of the year kicked off in May, it’s time for a stage that starts in June. And that will be reflected in the thermometers—over 30 degrees across three days, during which more than 400 players will once again storm the courts at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. We have a seasonal record of teams registered in the U18 category, with 19…

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Romania qualifies for the 3×3 Europe Cup

Andu Kedei

For the eighth time out of a total of nine editions, the Romanian women’s national team has qualified for the European 3×3 basketball championships. This weekend, one of the four qualifying tournaments for the 3×3 Europe Cup, which will take place from August 22-25 in Vienna, was held at UNEFS. Romania competed for qualification with both the women’s and men’s national teams, but only the women secured their spot, and they did so without losing a single game. The other teams that secured their places in the continental competition from…

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Missing3x3: Full House at the First Stop of BCR Sport Arena Streetball

Andu Kedei

“It’s so cool, I missed it so much” was the most frequently heard phrase, in one form or another, among the hundreds of participants at the first stop of the national 3×3 basketball circuit, BCR Sport Arena Streetball, which was played from Friday to Sunday on the courts at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. After 251 days since the last game of the 2023 season, at the final in Constanța, the 3×3 basketball community reunited at Politehnica, the place where the story of this Olympic discipline began almost 20 years…

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The biggest 3×3 basketball event in Romania’s history took place in Constanța, at City Park Mall

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Four days of basketball, three courts, a community tournament with over 100 teams gathered in the Sport Arena Streetball Tour finals, the first ever stop of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour professional circuit with 16 teams from 11 countries and a temporary five-star arena built at City Park Mall in Constanța. These were the main coordinates of a long weekend attended by more than 7000 spectators which concluded the series of 3×3 outdoor basketball events in Romania in 2023. Huge surprise at the first ever World Tour in Romania Hangzhou…

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Champions League winner at Sport Arena Streetball: Alexia Căruțașu kicked off the final in the 3×3 basketball tournament

Andu Kedei

More than 600 players, registered in less than two hours, participated in the second Sport Arena Streetball tournament of 2023, with a total of 143 teams registered in the 13 age categories. The competition, which this year celebrates its 18th birthday, scheduled 257 3×3 basketball games from Friday to Sunday in a legitimate outdoor sports festival. The second stop of the national 3×3 Sport Arena Streetball basketball circuit ended with the victory of the Foreign Ballers, who dramatically defeated, 17-15, the first stop champion CSM Constanta. Recent winner of the…

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