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Eyes on the prize: FIBA 3×3 WT Final in Miami

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The climax to the first full 3×3 season is only one week away, with the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final set to take place in Miami from 21-23 September. Representing cities all over the world, 12 of the best 3×3 teams will converge on the city’s iconic South Beach (off Collins Park) for three days of heart-stopping basketball action and entertainment as they battle to be crowned number one. Places in the Final were earned in the five 3×3 World Tour events played over the summer in Sao Paulo, Vladivostok,…

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Sport Arena UPB, at the 3×3 World Tour Final

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Sport Arena UPB is the first Romanian team qualified for the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final (Miami, 22-23 September), after they finished second at FIBA 3×3 World Tour Istanbul. The Romanian team, lead by Angel Santana, lost 12-17 with Vilnius in the final from Istanbul, but they advanced to Miami and they received a 5000 dollars prize for their performance. On the road to the final, Sport Arena UPB surpassed the University World Champions, team Kragujevac, which had in the roster the same four players that won the world title…

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Sport Arena UPB beat the world university champions

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Sport Arena UPB cruised in Istanbul over the team from Kragujevac, 21-5, in the groups of FIBA 3×3 World Tour Master and increase their chances to advance to the quarter finals of the competition. The four players reunited in Istanbul for the team Kragujevac, represented Serbia in the World University Games earlier this summer and won the world title in the final against Romanian university national team. This is the second huge victory for Romanian 3×3 basketball after the Romanian national team won against USA Basketball at the FIBA 3×3…

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From Bucharest to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Masters

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Sport Arena Bucharest Challenger (4-5 august, Bucharest, Romania) is part of the worldwide network of more than 70 tournaments or championships from where the teams can qualify to the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Masters. The winning team from Sport Arena Bucharest Challenger will take part in FIBA 3×3 World Tour Istanbul Master. From there, the first three teams will go to the World Tour Final, in Miami, United States. The FIBA 3×3 World Tour was launched in 2012 and currently consists of five 16-team Masters tournaments as well as the FIBA…

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3×3 basketball won the elections in Bucharest

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In a weekend when the local elections took place in Romania, a few thousands youngsters voted for 3×3 basketball as their main candidate. More than 800 players, registered in only 24 hours on the previous week, followed by almost 3000 fans, came to express their vote and their feelings about the sport they love at Sport Arena Streetball, the only 3×3 championship in Romania and one of the few in the world. The second stage of the 2012 regular season was hot for a few more reasons than the weather,…

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Sport Arena Streetball, basketball and fun in Bucharest

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The Sport Arena Streetball Championship, a FIBA 3×3 World Tour Qualifier, scheduled the first of its five tournaments last weekend, and the weather was not a good teammate at all. But if the rain never stopped for almost three days in Bucharest, so was the basketball. A gym, situated near the Sport Arena Streetball state of the art outdoor facility, was the perfect place to make the deadliest crossover on the rain and to keep playing no matter what. And the show went on and on, from Friday afternoon until late Sunday…

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Football star played basketball at Sport Arena

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Not only the basketball players were the stars of the weekend. Bogdan Stelea, the former goalkeeper of the Romanian national football team (World Cup 1994 and 1998 and Euro 1996), showed his skills on basketball court, and amazed everybody with his scoring abilities. Stelea, the one that saved the Romanian national football team from so many goals, had also the taste of the offense at Sport Arena Streetball, scoring basket after basket. Next to him, in the “All Star Team” was the former Euroleague and Eurocup player and the captain…

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Basketball never stops at Sport Arena Streetball

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This year, Sport Arena Streetball offers the basketball lovers even more from the sport they love so much. It’s the eight year we organize the one and only streetball championship in Romania, and we thought about raising the stakes. So, next to the five traditional tournaments of the Sport Arena Streetball championship, four regulars and one Master, we will organize our first international tournament, the Sport Arena Bucharest Challenger (4th-5th of August), which will also have the status of a FIBA World Tour qualifier. The winning team of the Sport…

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