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Radu Petrescu is the best junior in the world at 3×3 basketball

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The 3×3 Basketball World Rankings published earlier this year by the International Basketball Federation reveal Radu Petrescu as the top ranked junior at the age of 18. The third place is sealed by another Romanian player, Victor Bogdan, a teammate of Petrescu in Romania’s U18 national team which ranked 8th at the World Championship and 9th at the European Championship, back in 2017. Radu, who plays for Ştiinţa Bucureşti in the 2nd tier 5×5 basketball league, managed to win three tournaments on the national tour powered by Sport Arena Streetball…

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Busy year for the Romanian leading 3×3 promoter, Sport Arena Streetball

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2017 will remain a landmark year in 3×3 basketball history, after the International Olympic Committee decided in June to include this discipline on the Olympic Games’ roster, starting with Tokyo 2020. With a record of 15 events organized in one year in Romania, Sport Arena Streetball, member of the FIBA 3×3 Advisory Board, continues to make a contribution to the development of this discipline, both at national and international level. 3×3 basketball began its journey to the Olympic Games in Bucharest, back in 2013, when Sport Arena Streetball organized the…

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With man down since the group stage, Riga Ghetto Basket scores a 3-men win at Bucharest Challenger and secures maiden World Tour Masters appearance

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“We won the Bucharest Challenger and qualified for the Masters in Luasanne. We’re all in pain, but that’s what happened here. It’s a huge joy, you’ve seen the celebration. We also had chance on our side, it was fantastic” an ecstatic Agnis Cavars revealed, just seconds after the icon University Square in Bucharest witnessed four Latvians unleash. They screamed their hearts out, jumped like crazy and then collapsed on court, as if they were about to draw their pairs of wings, just like children do in the snow. Riga Ghetto…

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Big Bas’ squad beats the drum at Bucharest Challenger

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The Netherlands will be represented for the first time at the 2016 edition of the Bucharest Challenger, just like Greece. Holland has barely finished celebrating the fantastic performance acquired by its own players at the mid- June 3×3 Basketball World Championship in France. Having never achieved significant results at any 5×5 basketball major tournaments, but with a keen desire to perform well in team-sports outside the football field, the Netherlands has crafted a national strategy. The Federation started to invest heavily in 2007 in several projects dedicated to children and…

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Romania’s Big 3. Bucharest Legends take on the world’s 3×3 giants

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Those are players who have carried Romanian basketball on their shoulders for the last two decades, at the highest level, whether they were playing for the national team or at club level. Virgil Stănescu is the most iconic Romanian basketball player since 1989, having put together good seasons in the most powerful European championships and served as captain for the national team for almost two decades. Paul Helcioiu, winner of the FIBA Eurochallenge Cup back in 2005 with Asesoft Ploiești, was also a key-player for Romania’s national team. Mihai Paul…

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Sent by the Gods of Athens: Don Poly makes its Challenger debut in Bucharest

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Greece sends a team to Bucharest Challenger for the first time. From the City of Gods right to “Kilometer Zero” of the Romanian Capital, here come three Greeks and one Serbian guy! Petros Melissaratos, Nikos Tsiokos and Thanasis Chanias-Pantazis, ranked 5th, 6th and 7th among Greek 3×3 players, competed all four tournaments in 2017 alongside Serbia’s Alexander Stevovic, who’s got a 5×5 pro basketball contract in Greece. Don Poly arrives in Bucharest after a first World Tour appearance in Prague (12th place) and three podium finishes in as many tournaments…

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Winnipeg: the win-prone Canadians have experience on their side at the Bucharest Challenger

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Winnipeg Acceleration Performance arrives at the Bucharest Challenger as a finalist of the national tour 3×3 Canada Quest and after having secured a World Tour showing in Saskatoon (12th place, in a contest won by Ljubljana). However, the team is slightly different from Saskatoon, with Darcy Coss (34) and Graham Bodnar (36) joining Wyatt Anders and O’Neal Gordon instead of Jelane Pryce and Matthew Koenig (an entertaining player to watch, enrolled in a special training program to improve detention and dunking skills). Interestingly enough, Bodnar and Coss were Wyatt Anders’s…

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The boys from Piter set to bring their opponents bitter days at Bucharest Challenger

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At first glance, BM-18 appers to be a team put together in a hurry. Igor Medyntcev and Shalva Shatashvili are the two players constantly enrolled in 2017 tournaments as part of the team, but they as well have migrated to other quartets. Nikolai Shangychev is, without doubt, the most important transfer, while Alex Abrikosov will play for the first time under this name. It is from this difficult to manage situation that Abrikosov, who in the past has brought one of Russia’s two 3rd place finishes at Bucharest Challenger, will…

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Clearwater seeks safe sail through the Bucharest Challenger draw, after competing in the US national trials

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America sends a squad for a second consecutive year to the Bucharest Challeger. Ben, Brian and Charlie make a unique BBC trident on the semicircle, that Romanian 3×3 basketball fans are welcomed to watch on Saturday and Sunday on the courts set at University Square. To this “BBC formula” , add a “M”, for Michael – an experienced 34-years-old basketball player, 2.03 m tall, to form Clearwater. Ben Patrick, Brian Pegg, Mike and Charlie Lytle make the squad sent by the world’s strongest basketball nation. They are coming to Bucharest…

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Bordeaux BALListik elite troops target Bucharest Challenger success

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The sixth largest metropolitan area in France sends its BALListik elite troops to Bucharest Challenger. The mission: to make a name for Bordeaux – other than the home of fine wines. The four “Bordelais” come to Bucharest in an unusual formula: Eddy Steiner, the shortest of the French players, only 1.81 m, sets the traditional core with Charles Albert. The two made a first appearance on the FIBA World Tour last year in Debrecen with a 11th place finish and were forced to recruit two new teammates, as Alex Vialaret…

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