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ABU DHABI (UAE) - This is the story of the Special Olympics UAE’s Unified 3x3 Basketball team that qualified to the last stage of the Abu Dhabi 3x3 Quest Final and made it all the way to the...

FIBA.basketball Guapo and Miezis top unfrozen FIBA 3x3 Individual rankings MIES (Switzerland) - All FIBA 3x3 rankings – which had been frozen since April 1, 2020 to avoid disrupting Olympic eligibility and qualification to competitions - are now dynamic again with Frances Laetitia Guapo and Latvias Nauris Miezis as number 1 players in the World in the women and mens categories respectively. The 25-year-old Guapo has now been ranked first for 19 months in a row. She was key in Les Bleues eff...

FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2021 to start in Doha in March 02/09/21 The tenth edition of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour will begin in Doha, Qatar on March 26-27, 2021. The number one competition of the FIBA 3x3 professional circuit will be back just three months after Team Riga (LAT) won their first title. This will mark the second year in a row the World Tour makes a stop in Doha, in the Al Gharafa Sports Complex, a state-of-the-art outdoors venue. The event will be hosted by the Qatar Basketball Federa...

FIBA.basketball Nauris Miezis named FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2020 MVP RIGA (Latvia) - Nauris Miezis was named MVP of the 9th edition of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour by his peers on December 30, 2020.    The jury of 108 players who competed at the World Tour in 2020 rewarded the 29-year-old Latvian after a stellar season, which saw him win 2 individual awards (Doha Masters and Jeddah Final MVP) and 3 team trophies with Team Riga (Hungary and Doha Masters, Jeddah Final).  Miezis elevated his game in the...