Basketball

MONTREAL (Canada) – The FIBA 3×3 World Tour 2020 winners Riga (LAT) finally claimed their first success of the season on the pro circuit at the Montreal Masters on September 3-4, 2022. The Latvians defeated Sakiai Gulbele  (LTU) 19-17 in a thrilling all-Baltic final. It was the first time this year that Riga were able to have their four Olympic champions on the ...

MONTREAL (Canada) – Canada finished the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series regular season in style by winning their third stop of the season in Montreal on September 2-3, 2022.   Canada had a perfect 5-0 record in Montreal. After winning their first 4 games by a 10-point margin on average, they were pushed to their limits in the final by a surprising France ...

MIES (Switzerland) – Efforts to increase visibility and expand the popularity of women’s basketball received a massive boost today as Google becomes FIBA’s first-ever Global Partner of Women’s Basketball and the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup. The partnership will start with this year’s FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia on September 22, where Google will be the Exclusive Presenter ...

MIES (Switzerland) / BARCELONA (Spain)- The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and celebrity streamer Ibai Llanos will partner to host the first edition of the FIBA 3×3 Streamers Tournament, which will take place in Barcelona, Spain on September 12, 2022. Some of the most popular streamers on the planet will lace up their sneakers and step on a 3×3 court to ...

NAHA CITY (Japan) – Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia will be in the spotlight from August 25 to 28 as the Tissot Countdown Clocks are unveiled in the three host countries to celebrate one year to the start of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.   The latest milestone ahead of FIBA’s flagship event for men will feature ceremonies attended by ...

MIES (Switzerland) – The FIBA Executive Committee convened by video conference today for their second meeting of 2022. With a very busy calendar of events coming up over the next few months, including the fourth window of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers, the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022, the FIBA EuroBasket 2022 and FIBA AmeriCup 2022, the meeting had an event-packed agenda.   The following ...

LAUSANNE (Switzerland) – Ub Huishan NE (SRB) won the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Lausanne Masters 2022, presented by Yuh in the Olympic capital on August 20. The Serbian squad won their fourth straight World Tour event of 2022 after the Utsunomiya Opener, the Manila Masters and the Prague Masters after defeating home favorites Lausanne Sport (SUI) in the final (21-15) in front of a sold-out venue by Lake Geneva. The final was ...

QUEBEC (Canada) – USA won their first FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Stop of the season in Quebec after defeating Lithuania in the final on August 19-20, 2022. USA took home their second-ever Women’s Series stop after going 5-1 in Canada, including a convincing  18-7 win against Lithuania in the final.   Tournament MVP Lauren Cox led the team with 8 points ...

CAIRO (Egypt) – FIBA, the NBA and the Egyptian Basketball Federation today announced that the 2022 Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Africa camp will be held Sunday, Aug. 28 – Wednesday, Aug. 31 at Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports Complex in Cairo, Egypt. The 18th BWB Africa camp will mark the first time the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program will be ...

Forty-seventy wheelchair basketball players will make history at Birmingham 2022 being the first to represent the sport in its debut at the Commonwealth Games.   The players will represent 8 countries in the 3×3 wheelchair basketball competition which will take the world stage for the first time in an integrated programme with running 3×3 basketball for the first time.   Six men’s ...