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Never underestimate the heart of a champion! 3×3 basketball European Champion reigns supreme at Superbet Palas Streetball

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The first Sport Arena Streetball tournament played atfer 3×3 basketball was announced as a new-entry Olympic discipline at Tokyo 2020 saw an incredible display by European champion Cătălin Vlaicu. He was simply unstoppable in the Open Men’s final, as he led his team to victory at Superbet Palas Streetball, which took place in Iași. Over 200 players registered for the start of the competition, which was played on a mind-blowing venue, worthy of an Olympic discipline, offered by “Palatul Culturii” (The Palace of Culture) and by Palas Mall in Iași,…

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3×3 basketball will be played at the Olympics

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The International Olympic Committee decided, on Friday, June 9th, to introduce 3×3 basketball into the Olympic programme, starting with 2020, in Tokyo. The only team sport that saw Romania win a medal at the last two European Championships (men’s contest and then women’s) was set on track towards the Olympic roster by a Romanian team, namely Sport Arena Streetball. The Romanian organizers set up the first 3×3 showcase tournament for the IOC in Bucharest, in 2013, and ever since has supported the campaign “from the streets to the Olympics”. Patrick…

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3×3 basketball DOC-tor! A famous rapper entered the competition at Raiffeisen Bank Politehnica Streetball

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Vlad Munteanu aka DOC, one of the most popular artists of the Romanian hip-hop industry chilled for one week-end on the 3×3 basketball court at Raiffeisen Bank Politehnica Streetball. Playing with his friend for the plus 35 age category, DOC was surprised to see the level reached by this discipline. “Once a school yard and a playground affair, 3×3 basketball seems now very professional and is extraordinary that basically anyone can play in such a good organized environment”, stated the rapper, who, like anyone else registered in the tournament, received…

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Sport Arena Streetball 2017 – Tournaments schedule

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Sport Arena Streetball 2017 will feature a total of 10 tournaments, while for the sixth year in a row we will organize the already well known Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, the international tournament and FIBA 3×3 World Tour Lausanne qualifier, that will be played in the same iconic University Square from Bucharest. Registrations are opened to all the teams, via 3x3planet.com. The already organized Nike 3×3 Challenge and the first seven tournament of the year are also qualifiers for the Tour Final, held in Bucharest, 18-20 august, which further on,…

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One hoop, two teams, three friends, play! Game on, Sport Arena Streetball Tour 2017

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Over  500 players are expected to show up for the 3×3 basketball national tour opener, this weekend. Sport Arena Streetball Tour 2017 kicks off on the traditional courts at University Politehnica of Bucharest, May 27th-28th, and features 10 stops in seven cities: Bucharest, Iași, Suceava, Oradea, Timișoara, Constanța and Craiova. 3×3 basketball is coming home to where the Sport Arena Streetball fairytale started back in 2005, looking forward to the completion its 13th chapter. Registration for the first stop the 2017 tour, Politehnica Streetball by Raiffeisen Bank, started on Monday,…

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The Serbians, unstoppable at Nike 3×3 Challenge. Zmajevi clinch title against “familiar foe” Epic Jam. The juniors stole the show with dramatic last-second deciders

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Serbia made the most out of Nike 3×3 Challenge, the season opener for the Romanian 3×3 calendar, by Sport Arena Streetball. The two teams that had made the trip to Bucharest from the neighboring country reached the final of the Open category, undefeated, and faced-off in an all-Serbian final.  Zmajevi, the favorite of the pair, went on to conquer the trophy and booked a place to the Master tournament that will grant the access to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour stop in Debrecen for the winners of the Open Men…

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Ready, play, dunk! Nike 3×3 Challenge kicks off Romanian 3×3 season 

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It only took five minutes to fill all the spots for Nike 3×3 Challenge, the season opener for the Romanian 3×3 calendar. The 13th season organized by Sport Arena Streetball kicks off this week, in Bucharest, and has already broken registration records, proving that basketball fans have dearly missed their weekly meetings with the soon-to-be Olympic sport.

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Nike 3×3 Challenge is the 3×3 Tour Romania 2017 season opener

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Nike 3×3 Challenge is the season opener of 3×3 Tour Romania 2017 and will be organized by Sport Arena Streetball between 5 and 7 May in ParkLake Shopping Center. The FIBA 3×3 endorsed tournament is opened to all traditional age and gender categories from the Sport Arena Streetball tournaments (U14, U18, Open and Veterans, both men and women). REGISTER HERE (registrations are limited to 50 teams for all categories combined) The total value of the prizes reaches 25.000 RON (aprox. 6000 euros) while the winner of the Open Men category…

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Sonia Ursu, among Top 10 women who ruled 3×3 in 2016

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The Romanian 3×3 star Sonia Ursu was among the top 10 women who ruled 3×3 basketball in 2016, according to fiba.com, who highlighted some of the best players in the world.  The world number 52 in FIBA 3×3 World Ranking for women, Sonia was a silver medalist of the 3×3 European Championships in Bucharest, with the Romanian National Team, together with Gabriela Marginean, Anca Sipos and Andra Haas. “Don’t let the arty Instagram account distract you, Ursu means bear in Romanian and when Ursu steps on the court, she’s all…

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Dusan Bulut starts 2017 as the FIBA 3×3 World number 1

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Dusan Domovic Bulut (Team Novi Sad Al Wahda and Serbia) starts the year the best 3×3 player in the world, leading the FIBA 3×3 World Rankings with 1,175,400 points.  Bulut and his teammates Marko Savic and Marko Zdero are topping the world ranking, followed on the fourth position by Jasmin Hercegovac (Team Ljubljana and Slovenia), the winner of the 2016 FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final in Abu Dhabi. Dejan Majstorovic, who missed part of the 2016 season because of an injury is on fifth position. The Top 10 is completed by…

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