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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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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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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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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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Lipek: Dunking is not only art, is a tool to get to people

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Jumping straight out of Poznan, one of the oldest cities in Poland and home of 500.000 people, Rafal “Lipek” Lipinski made by himself a name in the dunking world. Crowned in all of the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Final dunk contests so far and owning for two years in a row the prestigious dunk contest from Quai54, France, plus multiple other contests, Rafal became one of the most successful professional dunkers in the world. Let’s meet this 24 year’s old guy who inspired a lot of people and among them…

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Romania, qualified for the 3×3 World Championships in 2016

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Romania will be present in three out of four 3×3 World Championships that will be organized in 2016. Three national teams qualified for their respective age and gender categories thanks to the country position in the FIBA 3×3 Federation Ranking and the results from the past editions. 

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Pristina, the big story of the first day at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger

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Che Bar Pristina was, without any doubt, the big story of the first at Raiffeisen Bank Bucharest Challenger, the FIBA 3×3 World Tour qualifier that takes place in the Romanian capital city. The Kosovo team won both games of the Pool B, scoring an almost perfect 43 points in total. With two players returning from the team that last year didn’t recorded any win in Bucharest, Fisnik Juniku and Fikret Shatri and with two new additions, Kusthrim Hyda and Fisnik Rugova, Che Bar rolled with ease over the opponents. Juniku…

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