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Ready to play! Nike 3×3 Challenge inaugurates this season of Sport Arena Streetball, in ParkLake Shopping Center.

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The second edition of Nike 3×3 Challenge will represent again, as in 2017, the official debut of the Romanian 3×3 basketball season, by being the first tournament of the national tour of Sport Arena Streetball. The event will take place between 11 and 13 may, in ParkLake Shopping Center. 2018 will represent the first complete season since the 3×3 basketball was included in the Olympic Games program, where it will be starting with the 2020 edition. After the success of the inaugural edition, Nike 3×3 Challenge returns in Park Lake,…

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3×3 basketball is back home: Romania will host for the third time FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup and for the first time a qualifier

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The fourth edition of the FIBA 3×3 Europe Cup will be staged in Bucharest, Romania on September 14-16, 2018. The Romanian capital will play host to the most important 3×3 national team competition in Europe for a record third time in four editions, cementing its legacy as one of the capitals of 3×3. Romania shined in previous editions: men won gold in 2014 while women struck silver in 2016. The event will be hosted by the Romanian Basketball Federation and organized by Sport Arena. The exact venue will be announced at a later…

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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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Bulgaria’s Lilov set to prove he’s Fit for 3×3 at Bucharest Challenger, after missing out on Eurobasket ticket

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The winners of the 3X3 BULGARIA TOUR 2017 finale come to Bucharest with only one substitution, led by Ivan Lilov. With no more than three appearances in 3×3 competitions this year, the ballers from Sofia are hoping to speculate any wrong move from their rivals, as outsiders. Yet, Sofia Fit Spo will have a difficult task. Key Player:  Ivan Lilov A 5×5 national team player for Bulgaria, Lilov was one step away from the Eurobasket 2017 qualification, in group E, where the Balkan team faced Slovenia, Ukraine and Kosovo. Eventually,…

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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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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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Red-hot 3×3 basketball: a former town-hero returns and wins Visit Oradea Streetball

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While the weather went from one extreme to the other, with hot temperatures followed by heavy storm, the action was pretty straight-forward on the playgrounds at Visit Oradea Streetball. Serbia’s Dzakovi 3×3, led by former CSM Oradea star Djordjo Djordjic, dominated the competition from start to finish. Even fellow countrymen in Extra Auto Vrbas could not stand in Dzakovi 3×3’s way, even though they flew in with a future contender in America’s University Championship. Dzakovi 3×3 won the final 21-12 and finished the tournament with all matches won before the…

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Visit Oradea Streetball, the teams’ last chance to secure tickets for the Sport Arena Streetball Tour final

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Visit Oradea Streetball expects over 200 players at the start of the competition set for this weekend, Saturday and Sunday. This is the last stop in the 3×3 Sport Arena Streetball Tour 2017. The tournament, hosted by Unirii Square, near the Moon Church landmark, offers the teams one last chance to qualify for the grand finale which is to be held in Bucharest, August 19th and 20th. MMA fighter Sandu Lungu will test his basketball qualities at Visit Oradea Streetball during the Saturday evening session, as a special guest to…

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C’mon, Zemun! Serbia’s shot at Bucharest Challenger: they’ve taken down both Novi Sad and Ljubljana in 2017 finals

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Serbia, the strongest nation in the 3×3 FIBA World Federation Rankings, sends eight players altogether for the Bucharest Challenger (August 12-13). Yet, with Novi Sad Al Wadha playing for the United Arab Emirates, only four of them will fly the Serbian flag. Together, they are Zemun. When it comes to men’s 3×3 basketball, Serbia’s supremacy is quite impressive: the leading nation has almost twice as many points as the 4th ranked Netherlands and about 5 million points more than 2nd  place, Slovenia (based on the individual points won by each…

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