PARIS – FIBA introduced 3x3 as an official discipline 14 years ago, and the basketball format has now been included in two Olympics. The style is wildly popular in Eastern European countries, with ...

PARIS — Here we are, standing in the middle of the Place de la Condorde, face-to-face with newly-minted bronze medalist Cierra Burdick from the American women’s 3x3 basketball team. I feel a little ...

Special Olympics is bringing an all new basketball tournament to life, a Unified 3x3 World Cup modeled on the FIBA World Cup. Fresh off the success of the 2025 World Winter Games in March in Turin, ...

The only reason a lot of people in the United States now seem to care about 3x3 basketball is because we suddenly suck at it. Regardless of the reason for the response, the reaction has been ...

3x3 basketball, also known as three-on-three basketball, is a fast paced version of the traditional five-on-five game. 3x3 basketball, also known as three-on-three basketball, is a fast paced version ...

PARIS — The world’s most dominant basketball nation has finally found a discipline of the sport where it can’t trample everyone in its path. The rest of the world is taking out decades of frustration ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games, head to our latest updates. PARIS — If there’s one sport Team USA is supposed to have cornered in international ...

Claudia Echeverry, Regional President and Managing Director, Latin America for Special Olympics talks equity and inclusion and planning for the Unifed 3x3 Basketball World Cup. Roughly 200 athletes ...

The USA men's and women's 3x3 Olympic basketball teams dropped to 0-2 following losses to Serbia (22-14) and Germany (17-3) on Wednesday. With both now in danger of failing to make it out of pool play ...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA JUNE 4: The players of the USA, Cameron Lee Brink of the USA, Hailey Van Lith of the USA, Linnae Harper of the USA and Cierra Burdick of the USA with the trophy during the award ...

10...9...8...7...6... The members of the U.S. women's 3x3 basketball team know there is no time to waste in their 10-minute games, but the pressure of a ticking clock ...

Unlike many star athletes in Singapore today, Ms Tan Kang Yi never planned to play professional basketball. She tells CNA TODAY how opportunities came to her time and again by friends and mentors who ...