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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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Bucharest saw some of the best 3×3 teams in 2016

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Novi Sad Al Wahda, Ljubljana or the Hungarian women national team were among the 3×3 teams highlighted by fiba.com, after their performances in 2016. All of them were present in Bucharest either for Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, or for the 3×3 European Championships. Hungary Women 2016 wins: European Championships For the last 3 years, Dora Medgyessy and her team-mates spent every summer crafting their 3×3 game. All the hard work paid off at the European Championships, where they won gold and produced the most entertaining basketball ever seen in the…

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Novi Sad demolishes Ljubljana in Bucharest, both advance to FIBA 3×3 WT

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What was suppose to be another great “El Clasico” of 3×3 basketball ended in a total debacle as Team Novi Sad Al Wahda demolished Team Ljubljana, final score 21-6, in the final of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger. Both teams qualified for FIBA 3×3 World Tour Debrecen.

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World Tour champs, to play at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

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The 2015 FIBA 3×3 World Tour champions, Novi Sad Al Wahda, are among the headliners of the fifth edition of Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger that will take place in the iconic University Square, on 13 and 14 of August. The world number one ranked player, Dusan Domovic Bulut and his team are coming back in Bucharest after they won the 2013 edition and finished third in the 2012. Their arch rivals, Team Ljubljana, will join the list of World Tour teams to play in Bucharest and once again there is…

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