Ministry of Sports reveals details of the 3×3 Basketball World Tour Championship in Diriyah season

RIYADH: The 3×3 Basketball World Tour Championship will be held as part of the second Diriyah season on Nov. 11-12, the Ministry of Sport announced during a press conferance on Wednesday.

The event will be organized by the ministry in coordination with the Saudi Basketball Federation, and held under the supervision of the International Basketball Federation.

President of the Saudi Basketball Federation Ghassan Tashkandi said that the Kingdom had hosted many international sporting events over the past years with the support of the government. This included three rounds of the 3×3 Basketball Championship, encompassing a world tour in Jeddah during the past three years. This was the fourth championship in the Kingdom and the first in Riyadh within the activities of the Diriyah Season 2022.

He thanked the Ministry of Sports under the leadership of Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, who he described as the first supporter of tri-basketball, with the aim of expanding the base of its practitioners in the Kingdom.

Tashkandi said that the International Basketball Federation had been very cooperative during past years in hosting the tournament rounds in the Kingdom and said that the cooperation between the Saudi and International Basketball Federations 3X3 would continue in the coming years.

Head of the FIBA ​​3X3 Activities Department Ignesu Serrano said that he appreciated the confidence of the Ministry of Sports and the Saudi Olympic Committee in the FIBA, and the partnership between the two sides, which had contributed to the Kingdom’s hosting of the fourth tournament.

The value of prizes for the tournament during this world tour of the FIBA ​​3x3 Riyadh Masters game exceeded $2 million, he said, and the current 3X3