Tag: 3×3 basketball

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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CSM Constanta and Agro Squad dominated the first Sport Arena Streetball tournament. 10-year-olds, protagonists in a unique slam-dunk competition

Andu Kedei

CSM Constanța and Agro Squad, the team of the Bucharest club Agronomia, shared their success in the elite categories in the first Sport Arena Streetball tournament of 2023. The 3×3 basketball competition, in which more than 500 players participated, ended on Sunday evening on the courts of the Politehnica University of Bucharest. The finals of both the Men’s Open and Women’s Open categories had the same protagonists. The Agro girls, with Sonia Ursu, Romania’s representative at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gamesnin the spotlight, won the final against CSM Constanta, 20-16.…

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FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup, a show to remember

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Acrobatics. Slam dunks. Dance. Blocked shots. Kiss Cam. Assists. Circus moments. Crossovers. Music. Game winners. Basketball showtime. It was quite difficult for anyone to choose their preferred moment from the FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup at the Metropolitan Circus in Bucharest. There were so many crazy games, so many incredible shots and so many entertainment moments that were simply jaw-dropping and kept not only the audience but also the teams, the delegates in a constant wow mood. And the finals. Oh, the finals. Who could have imagined a finish like…

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Two more spots for NL Constanta Final up for grab in Bucharest

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The FIBA 3×3 Nations League 2022 worldwide marathon continues this weekend in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, in the event supported by the District 2 City Hall and organized in Veranda Mall. Less than one week after we found out the first two teams qualified for Constanta Final (Mongolia men and Japan women), another two will book their ticket right on the Romanian soil. The U21 East Conference will kick-off on Friday, with Lithuania as top seed in Bucharest. Augustinas Mikstas and Gabrielius Celka are quite familiar with the surroudings as…

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Sport Arena Streetball in 2021: A World Final, basketball at the Palace and a “Covid-free” season

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After a year of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, 3×3 basketball was back in full force. The year 2021 was a revival one for Sport Arena Streetball, which has hosted among others, the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final in Jeddah, the FIBA 3×3 Finals at the Palace of Parliament and the Raiffeisen Bank Sport Arena Streetball Tour in the “University of Politehnica”, a circuit that reminded us of the romantic period of the late 2000s. Following the 2020 season in which Sport Arena Streetball reinvented itself, moving 3×3 basketball competitions online,…

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