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2025 USA Basketball 3X Nationals Headed to Mesa

The 2025 USA Basketball 3X Nationals will be May 2–4 at Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, Arizona, with up to eight men’s and 16 women’s teams vying for national titles and selection to future rosters for international competitions. “We’re proud to welcome the 2025 USA Basketball 3X Nationals to Mesa,” said Lance Fite, Visit Mesa […]

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The Everett 3on3 Basketball Tournament will return to Snohomish County for the third straight year. Photo by William Frankhouser

Everett to Host Massive 3on3 Basketball Tournament

The streets of downtown Everett, Washington, will become a basketball playground July 12–13 with the fourth annual Everett 3on3 Basketball Tournament, a joint effort between Eventuris and the city. The downtown area will feature 40 basketball courts and hundreds of basketball games. In addition to the basketball tournament in the Snohomish County Sports Commission area, […]

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LA28 Program Draws Reactions from International Federations

The 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles will be the third largest in history with 11,198 athletes — even though the International Olympic Committee’s mandate is for no more than 10,500 athletes. That’s because the 698 athletes that will be participating in baseball, softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse sixes and squash will not count […]

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What About Us?

With the passage of time since the Dallas Mavericks traded their cornerstone player, Luka Doncic, to the Lakers, the deal remains universally incomprehensible. Sure, justifications have been offered such as Doncic’s defensive limitations, as well as his diet and conditioning habits that were thought to get in the way of his defensive abilities as well […]

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FIBA Singapore

Three FIBA Events Heading to Singapore Between 2026 and 2027

FIBA and Sport Singapore will extend its existing relations to have a series of FIBA 3×3 events in the Asian destination through 2027. The announcement took place at the opening ceremony of the FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup 2025 between Alex Sanchez, FIBA 3×3 managing director, and Kon Yin Tong, chairman of Sport Singapore. The 3×3 […]

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Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball Extends Stay in Nashville

Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball and Nashville have announced a multi-year deal for AU Pro Basketball to return to Music City in 2026 and beyond. The competition, which includes Olympians, WNBA champions and emerging players, wraps its fourth season and first in Nashville this weekend at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Attendance for the four-week event has […]

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Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas, has hosted TBT Regionals repeatedly in the past. Mark Kuhlmann/TBT

TBT 2025 Tournament Announces Wichita, Lexington and Syracuse as Regional Hosts

The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the 64-team, $1 million winner-take-all event, has announced three regional locations for the summer event with eight-team brackets taking place in Wichita, Kansas; Lexington, Kentucky, and Syracuse, New York. Hosted by Wichita State University and supported by Visit Wichita and headlined by WSU’s alumni squad, the Aftershocks, The Basketball Tournament will […]

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Lauryn Turner

Lauryn Turner Named Dallas Wings’ Chief Operating Officer

Lauryn Turner, who has been the chief operating officer at USA Gymnastics since 2020 and led the national governing body’s organization of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Minneapolis in the summer of 2024, has joined the WNBA’s Dallas Wings as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Turner joined USA Gymnastics in March 2020 […]

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Pacers Sports & Entertainment to Build $78M Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center

Pacers Sports & Entertainment plans to break ground this summer on a $78 million sports performance center for the Indiana Fever in the heart of downtown to open before the 2027 WNBA season. The Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center will be part of the PS&E campus and connected by skybridge to Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of […]

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