Women's competition
Yesterday afternoon, the 2021 MAGIC3 Shanghai Junior 3-on-3 Super Basketball Tournament was staged at the Putuo Gymnasium. After fierce competition, in the end, U17, Thin Bamboo Pole Team and No Play Inside Team won the top three in the Volkswagen Men's Group, and the Next Meal Team, Love Will Not Disappear and This Bad Team won the top three in the Volkswagen Women's Group. Xu Hao from Wuxi Guanghua School and Fei Huanjing from Songjiang No. 2 Middle School were awarded the MVP of the Volkswagen Group. In the elite group, the top three high school men's teams are Xuhui A team, Baoshan A team and Pudong A team, and the top three high school women's group are Huangpu B team, Huangpu A team and Jiading A team. Xu Xuankai of Nanyang Model Secondary School and Zhao Xinhui of Xiangming Middle School were awarded MVP.
In order to further promote the development of basketball and create a youth brand event with greater influence, the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission have jointly hosted the "MAGIC3 Shanghai Youth Three-on-Three Super Basketball Tournament" since 2019. After two years of cultivation, MAGIC3 has gradually become a shanghai youth basketball brand event that is loved by teenagers and integrates basketball event experience, basketball culture display, sports landscape line building, sports star interaction, youth sports exchange, and social operation.
Xu Bin, secretary of the party group and director of the Municipal Sports Bureau, presented awards to the top three teams in the elite high school boys' group
The third edition of MAGIC3 2021 kicked off on July 6 in Yuyangli. 18,247 teenagers from 4,570 teams signed up for nearly 4,000 matches. The Volkswagen Divisional Competition was held simultaneously in 16 districts of Shanghai, while the Regional Divisional Competition was held in major business districts in Shanghai. The Yangtze River Delta Open attracted about 5,000 young people from four cities. The first elite tournament attracted 300 strong players from 75 teams in 16 districts of Shanghai.
"From the introduction of three-person basketball in the Olympic Games, to the addition of three-person basketball U19 projects at the National Games, to events like MAGIC3, the influence of three-person basketball has become higher and higher, and the level is getting higher and higher every year." As an international referee of three-person basketball and also the chief referee of MAGIC3, Zhou Yun watched this event grow rapidly in the past three years, "In the past two years, there have been more and more events like MAGIC3, from children to high school students, from teenagers to grasp this project, which is very beneficial to the talent pool." The elite group can let the players in the public group know the progress of this project, play a leading role, and reflect the charm of basketball. ”
Zhang Zhiting (left), the main player of the Chinese three-person women's basketball team, presented the award to the MVP of the high school group
Just last month, the Chinese Basketball Association announced that the Chinese Three-Man Men's Basketball Professional League will be officially launched in 2022, and as the "transition season" of the event, the 2021 China Three-Man Basketball Club Classic will begin this month. Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, said at the opening ceremony of MAGIC3 that the promotion of three-person basketball in Shanghai is also indicative of the vitality and plasticity of the project. (Xinmin Evening News reporter Li Yuanchun)