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The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) is set to welcome sanctioned sport to its headquarters for the first time when the 3x3 Women s Series - the professional circuit for women s 3x3 basketball - comes to Mies next month.
Organised by Swiss Basketball, the event is set to take place on May 15 and 16 and will mark the first time a FIBA official competition is organised at the headquarters in Switzerland.
The FIBA headquarters were renamed the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in 2018 in memory of the former FIBA secretary general and International Olympic Committee member. The Patrick Baumann House of Basketball has been host to several 3x3 events before but organising a FIBA official competition at home in front of our headquarters, on the same day that Patrick is inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, will definitely have a special meaning to us, said current FIBA secretary general Andreas Zagklis.
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Daly, Giannakis and Messina headline FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2021
MIES (Switzerland) - Dream Team coach Chuck Daly (USA - posthumously), Panagiotis Giannakis (Greece) and Ettore Messina (Italy) lead a star-studded FIBA Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
Daly held the reins of arguably the most famous team in international basketball history, guiding the United States to the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. While he had success as both a high school and college coach, Daly was best known for his almost two decades at the helm of NBA teams, including the Detroit Pistons, whom he steered to titles in 1989 and 1990.
UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin and International Basketball
Federation (FIBA) by secretary general Andreas Zagklis have reiterated
their commitment to protecting the European model of sport during a
recent meeting.
Countries gear up for mouthwatering Olympic challenges after draw
TOKYO (Japan) - The United States women are gunning for a seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal this summer in Tokyo and there aren t many pundits that will be betting against them.
Even so, after this week s draw at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball, which pitted the Americans against a Nigeria team they beat by just five points at the FIBA Women s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade one year ago, against a French team that is No. 5 in the FIBA World Ranking, Presented by Nike, and against No. 10 Japan, who are hosts, a seventh consecutive gold may not be so straightforward.