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Why is DeMarcus Cousins playing 3×3 basketball in China?

DeMarcus Cousins has a new home in hoops and it’s a strange one. The 2016 Olympic champion and 4 time NBA All Star is going to play 3×3 basketball. Emmet Ryan examines the strange twist in Boogie’s career It’s been a strange and often interesting road for DeMarcus Cousins since his last NBA stop with […]

10 months ago 1 More
 

How FIBA can build 3×3 basketball into a bigger deal

The second appearance of 3×3 basketball at the Olympics was a roaring success. For that to matter, Emmet Ryan says that FIBA must seek to build around narratives The 3×3 basketball tournament at the Olympics couldn’t have ended on a more stunning note. After a thrilling women’s gold medal game, Worthy De Jong hit the […]

10 months ago 1 More
 

Interview: FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis

He is one of the most powerful people in the whole of basketball and he spoke to us. FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis sat down with Emmet Ryan to talk about the Olympics, relationships with the NBA & Euroleague, what’s next for Asia and Africa, and his advice for federations With the FIBA Intercontinental Cup […]

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Interview: FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann

FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann spoke to BallinEurope’s Emmet Ryan shortly after the conclusion of the Irish men’s cup final at the end of January in Dublin. The key takeaways from the discussion included support for a global players union, opposing conceding ground on Eurocup with Euroleague, the role of 3×3, and a look at […]

7 years ago More
 

Three is the magic number

With Euroleague’s new season coming up and the summer basketball activities all in the books, a combination of factors crossed Nicolò Origgi’s mind. With Ice Cube’s Big 3 league getting a lot of attention in the summer, our creatively minded Italian cooked up quite a recipe. What if we took the idea of the Big […]

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FIBA scores a big win with 3×3 getting into Olympics

The rumblings were coming for a while but, against stronger odds than you might think, 3×3 basketball will be at the Olympics in Tokyo 2020. Emmet Ryan on why this is a massive coup for international basketball’s governing body and what the status will mean for the condensed form of the sport The numbers never […]

8 years ago 1 More
 

Bernard O’Byrne on Ireland’s resurrection

It’s been a long road back to relevance for Irish basketball, ahead of the FIBA Europe Cup next week Emmet Ryan speaks with Basketball Ireland chief executive Bernard O’Byrne about the sport’s resurrection in Ireland When Bernard O’Byrne took over as chief executive of Basketball Ireland in 2011, the sport was in brutal shape on […]

9 years ago More

VIDEO: Ireland’s Orla O’Reilly on an historic performance at the 3×3

Ireland’s 3×3 women’s basketball team made history at the 2015 European Games in Baku by reaching the quarter finals before finally falling to Russia. Orla O’Reilly, the lone pro on the team, gave her thoughts after the game about what the run meant for her and her team mates.

10 years ago More

LIVE: Watch Ireland vs Russia in 3×3 quarter finals

Normally, BiE is all about being fair and balanced. Normally, Ireland isn’t playing a knockout game. Today is not a normal day because Ireland play the Czech Repbulic at 16.30 CET and BiE is in no mood to be fair and balanced. So instead, today, we are waving our tricolour and coming up with as […]

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Draws for Baku European 3×3 made

The draws for the 3×3 basketball competitions at the European Games in Baku have been made. Both competitions will see 16 nations taking part. First up here’s the draw for the men’s competition Pool A Slovenia Romania Lithuania Israel Pool B Russia Spain Turkey Belgium Pool C Estonia Serbia Italy Greece Pool D Andorra Czech […]

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VIDEO: 3×3 Finals dunk contest

Rafal ‘Lipek’ Lipinski claimed a third world title in the dunk contest at the 3×3 World Tour Finals in Japan. Check out the best of the action.

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VIDEO: Highlights of 3×3 World Tour Final

Novi Sad of Serbia reminded the world why they are the best in the business at 3×3 with a comprehensive victory over Saskatoon from Canada in the final of the 3×3 World Tour Finals in Tokyo. Here’s the best of the action.

10 years ago More
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