Top teams to select FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters in unique draft

MIES (FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2017) - The best 8 teams in the FIBA 3x3 Team Ranking get a chance to pick where they will play some of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2017 Masters during a live draft, which will be held on Friday 31 March at 12:00 CET (GMT+2).

For the first time in World Tour history, the top 8 ranked teams of the previous season (also known as the hard-seeded teams) qualify directly to a certain number of World Tour Masters.

FIBA 3x3 Team Ranking*

1. Novi Sad (SRB)**
2. Ljubljana (SLO)
3. Piran (SLO)
4. Saskatoon (CAN)
5. Krakow R8 Basket (POL)***
6. Kranj (SLO)
7. Hamamatsu (JPN)
8. Zemun (SRB)

*Ranking calculated by adding up the FIBA 3x3 Individual World Ranking points of the top three players of each World Tour team at the cut-off date of 1 November 2016
** formerly known as Novi Sad Al Wahda (UAE)
***formerly known as Gdansk (POL)

The hard-seeded teams will be allocated in pairs to Masters in this order:

Top 1 & 8: Masters A Top 2 & 7: Masters B Top 3 & 6: Masters C Top 4 & 5: Masters D Top 1 & 4: Masters E Top 2 & 3: Masters F Top 1 & 2: Masters G [/unordered]

In other words,

Novi Sad (SRB) owns the 1st, 5th and 7th pick. Ljubljana (SLO) owns the 2nd and 6th pick (and play in Novi Sad’s 7th pick). Piran (SLO) will get pick the 3rd pick (and play in Ljubljana's 6th pick). Saskatoon (CAN) will get the 4th pick (and play in Novi Sad's 5th pick). Krakow R8 Basket (POL) will play Saskatoon's 4th pick. Kranj (SLO) will play in Piran’s 3rd pick. Hamamatsu (JPN) will play in Ljubljana's 2nd pick. Zemun (SRB) will play in Novi Sad's 1st pick. [/unordered]

The draft will be conducted live on @FIBA3x3's social media channels.

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