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, ...

During this year's 2024 Paris Olympics, you may notice a different kind of basketball: a three-on-three (3x3) version that is only played on half a court. YES. HALF A COURT. In 2017, after the sport ...

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 ...

This weekend, hundreds of 3x3 basketball competitors, coaches, volunteers, fans and family will descend on San Juan, Puerto Rico for the first-ever Special Olympics Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup.

Since James Naismith’s fateful decision to hang a peach basket on the wall at a YMCA training school in western Massachusetts in 1891, basketball has been a quintessentially American sport. For fans ...

Fresh off the success of the 2025 World Winter Games in March in Turin, Italy, Special Olympics has announced their new big international event — a first-ever Unified 3x3 Basketball World Cup. The ...