{"id":832,"date":"2014-09-08T08:56:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T08:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3la3.ro\/2012-en\/?p=832"},"modified":"2014-09-11T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:59:05","slug":"romania-and-russia-the-first-ever-3x3-european-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/romania-and-russia-the-first-ever-3x3-european-champions_832.html","title":{"rendered":"Romania and Russia, the first ever 3&#215;3 European Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The center court flooded with people right after the final buzzer of the 3&#215;3 European Championships Men&#8217;s Final as\u00a0Romania\u00a0had just written history in conquering the first ever title in the competition with a\u00a019-16\u00a0win over\u00a0Slovenia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 fans around the center court and many more outside at the giant TV screen watched as the atmosphere reached its peak in a tremendously intense and close final game.<\/p>\n<p>With technical fouls being handed out to both teams, it was a put-back by<strong>\u00a0Bogdan Popescu\u00a0<\/strong>that gave the hosts the decisive lead, 17-16 in the dying seconds of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The teams traded baskets throughout the game, with the lead changing multiple times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ales Kunc\u00a0<\/strong>carried Slovenia with 11 points, for the hosts Bogdan Popescu&#8217;s 9 points led the way.<\/p>\n<p>Directly before,\u00a0<strong>Russia\u00a0<\/strong>claimed the first women&#8217;s title in convincing fashion, although\u00a0<strong>Slovenia<\/strong>\u00a0showed they were in the final for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovenians had the best game of all teams against the dominant Russian side, coming close on good outside shooting and hard-nosed inside game before eventually falling\u00a0<strong>16-13<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>source: 3x3eurotour.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The center court flooded with people right after the final buzzer of the 3&#215;3 European Championships Men&#8217;s Final as\u00a0Romania\u00a0had just written history in conquering the first ever title in the competition with a\u00a019-16\u00a0win over\u00a0Slovenia. More than 1,000 fans around the center court and many more outside at the giant TV screen watched as the atmosphere reached its peak in a tremendously intense and close final game. With technical fouls being handed out to both teams, it was a put-back by\u00a0Bogdan Popescu\u00a0that gave the hosts the decisive lead, 17-16 in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,175,61,174],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","tag-3x3","tag-european-championships","tag-romania","tag-russia"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3la3.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}