With little fanfare GB basketball announced on 3 August that they had selected a men’s and women’s team to take part in the qualifiers for the U18 3×3 Europe Cup. As far as 3x3ballers is aware, this is the first time GB has been involved in a national teams 3×3 event. Players identified by ‘elite […]

Amsterdam was the second stop on the 3x3ballers European tour. This time it was to see the 3×3 Europe Cup which took place over 3 days. 12 men’s and 12 women’s national teams from Europe competed in the arena which was located in the Museumplein sector of the city. Amsterdam will also play host to […]

The 3×3 World Cup dunk contest was a wild affair and 3x3ballers took its video camera along.

The fifth and final day of the 3×3 World Cup is here. Such is the dizzying pace, the quarter and semi-finals, plus the championship games for both men and women, happened on the same day. Assist of the tournament goes to Qatar’s Erfan Ali Saeed, against Slovenia in their quarter final match. However, Slovenia ran […]

3×3 basketball at its dramatic best – Qatar are 1 point away from winning the game on the ‘first to 21’ rule when Ukraine drain a 2 to win. Ganna Zarytska of Ukraine women scores with a slow motion underarm finger-roll that does a 360 round the entire hoop before dropping in! Shooter’s touch? Not […]

Netherland’s Jesper Jobse aka ‘The Job’ embarrasses New Zealand’s Aaron Bailey-Nowell who has become a bit confused as to who he is supposed to be guarding! Sorry Aaron Bailey-Nowell but we think this is on you as well! Zahir Carrington loses him and drives to the basket and delivers a thunderous dunk! Blocking someone under […]

Day 2 of the 3×3 World Cup belonged to France Men who powered past El Salvador and Philippines in front of a rapturous home crowd. This took them to the top of their pool. The match against the Philippines had one of the plays of the day, when France’s Tsagarakis faked a no-look pass to […]

The first day of the 3×3 World Cup was a frenetic affair, full of action and drama. From early on it was easy to see why 3×3 is growing around the world. The non-stop string of matches, both men and women, continued throughout the day. There DJ and on-court announcers had the capacity crowd bouncing […]

Fast on the heels of the announcement that 3×3 basketball will be added to the schedule for Tokyo 2020, is the start of the 3×3 World Cup in France. Less than an one hour’s flying time from London the town of Nantes in the western part of the country is staging a basketball spectacular. The […]