De Jong wins FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2024 regular season MVP

Saturday, November 23, 2024

HONG KONG - Dutch superstar Worthy de Jong's unforgettable year continued after he was crowned MVP of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2024 regular season.

Voted by a panel of fans and players, de Jong's incredible season included MVPs in Amsterdam's triumphs in Ulaanbaatar and Abu Dhabi. The scoring machine averaged 7.1 ppg which was the second highest mark on the World Tour (minimum 20 games).

He was also involved in countless highlight plays to cement his status as 'Hype Worthy'.

De Jong had the support of the players with 27.08% of the vote followed by Riffa superstar Dennis Donkor (20.83%), while Ub Huishan NE's Strahinja Stojacic and Vienna's Nico Kaltenbrunner had 12.5%.

Paris excitement machine Franck Seguela underlined his global popularity after easily winning the fan vote with 40.57%. De Jong finished second (13.46%) and Stojacic third (13.36%).

De Jong, who finished second in MVP voting last season, ended the stranglehold of No.1 ranked Stojacic, who claimed the top honor during the previous two seasons.

It is the latest accolade in an incredible year for de Jong, who was etched in Olympic lore after leading the Netherlands to gold at the Paris Games with an MVP performance.

De Jong joins a select list of World Tour MVPs alongside Dusan Bulut (2018), Dominique Jones (2019), Nauris Miezis (2020), Karlis Lasmanis (2021) and Strahinja Stojacic (2022-23).

About FIBA 3x3

Exciting, urban and innovative, 3x3 is inspired by several forms of streetball played worldwide and is considered the world’s number one urban team sport. Steered by FIBA, games see two teams of three players face off on a basketball half-court.

It was played successfully for the first time in international competition at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore and since then has benefited from the launch of a yearly professional circuit for men and women (World Tour and Women’s Series respectively) and national-team competitions. 3x3 made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

Wilson is the Global Ball Partner and Maurice Lacroix the Official Timekeeper of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour 2024.

FIBA 3x3 events are played on Enlio floors with Wilson balls, Schelde backstops, Bodet shot-clocks, the Magic Sky canopy and the Avant seating system.

For further information about 3x3, visit fiba3x3.basketball, FIBA 3x3 accounts on Douyin, Facebook, Instagram, Sina Weibo, Tencent, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, Youku and YouTube or contact 3x3@fiba.basketball.

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