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

May 21, 2024September 13, 2024 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…

Returns, Transfers, and Newcomers at the First Stop of BCR Sport Arena Streetball 2024

May 15, 2024September 13, 2024 Andu Kedei

In the off-season, some basketball players found a new home, others are returning to the most popular urban sport, while some will make their debut in the Open category. Bogdan Sandu participated in all the stops of last season, representing only one team, CSU Pitești. At the first tournament of 2024, he will play alongside Rahova Finest, one of the most famous teams in the BCR Sport Arena Streetball circuit. In fact, Sandu has played for this team before, back in 2018, along with Cătălin Vlaicu and Cătălin Bordei, two…

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

September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 sportarena

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…

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

May 30, 2023May 30, 2023 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…

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

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 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.…

Lipek: Dunking is not only art, is a tool to get to people

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 sportarena

Jumping straight out of Poznan, one of the oldest cities in Poland and home of 500.000 people, Rafal “Lipek” Lipinski made by himself a name in the dunking world. Crowned in all of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final dunk contests so far and owning for two years in a row the prestigious dunk contest from Quai54, France, plus multiple other contests, Rafal became one of the most successful professional dunkers in the world. Let’s meet this 24 year’s old guy who inspired a lot of people and among them…

Team Bucharest, tough mission at FIBA 3×3 World Tour Lausanne

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 sportarena

For the fourth year in a row Romania will have a representative in the FIBA 3×3 World Tour. Team Bucharest will face some really tough opponents during the pool phase in Lausanne Masters, teams Trbovlje (Slovenia) and Malaga (Spain). The tournament takes place on August 28-29. The Slovenians will try to defend their title in Lausanne, while Team Malaga stepped up to replace Team Yaounde as they finished second the last qualifier to Lausanne, the Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger. Team Bucharest, the winner of the Sport Arena Streetball Quest, will feature…

Master to the Masters! Belgrade wins Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

August 18, 2015 sportarena

Master Belgrade was the last team qualified for the Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, as the Serbian 3×3 Finals were just few day prior to Bucharest tournament. But the guys from Belgrade were also the last men standing in University Square and now there are preparing to make their first appeareance in the FIBA 3×3 World Tour, in Lausanne Masters. Bogdan Dragovic, Lazar Rasic, Nikola Vukovic and Marko Dugosija dominated in the pool round, winning all their games by comfortable margins. They kept their composure in the quarter finals as We…

Pristina, the big story of the first day at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

August 15, 2015 sportarena

Che Bar Pristina was, without any doubt, the big story of the first at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, the FIBA 3×3 World Tour qualifier that takes place in the Romanian capital city. The Kosovo team won both games of the Pool B, scoring an almost perfect 43 points in total. With two players returning from the team that last year didn’t recorded any win in Bucharest, Fisnik Juniku and Fikret Shatri and with two new additions, Kusthrim Hyda and Fisnik Rugova, Che Bar rolled with ease over the opponents. Juniku…

Crazy finish of the Sport Arena Streetball’s 11th season

August 3, 2015 sportarena

The 11th season of the popular Romanian 3×3 basketball Quest, Sport Arena Streetball, came to an end last Sunday in dramatic fashion. Outsiders from “We Got Game” won the Open Men category and booked their tickets to Lausanne FIBA 3×3 World Tour after their overtime win against “Old School”. Victor Constantin, brother of Andrei Constantin, who played for Team Bucharest in the first FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final in Miami, was the unlikely hero, scoring the game winning two pointer in overtime. “Old School”, featuring Vasile Stefan, who reached last…