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On the way back: UNICS GM Claudio Coldebella might return to Italy

2022-05-09

The VTB League is entering the most crucial moments of the season. UNICS Kazan is currently facing Zenit in the semifinals of the competition but for Italian executive Claudio Coldebella, the sports director of UNICS, these might be the last few games of his Russian experience that started four years ago. According to a report from 'Il Corriere del Veneto', in fact, Italian side Nutribullet ...
Same principles, new faces: reshuffle is on the way for Armani Exchange

2022-05-08

In Italy, we have a common saying ‘squadra che vince non si cambia’, which roughly translates to ‘you don’t change a team that just won’. However, this is not always correct in reality. In basketball and other team sports, we often see that relying on the same group that just won a major title doesn't always result in the continuation of winning. Bringing in some ...
Real Madrid DNA: Pablo Laso and his army follow Carlo Ancelotti's footsteps

2022-05-06

When the EuroLeague regular season ended, many thought that if there could have been room for an upset in the playoffs, it would have probably been related to Real Madrid. Los Blancos finished the regular season in fourth place with a final record of 18 wins and 10 losses. But most of those defeats came in the final part of the regular season. Until February, coach Pablo Laso's side was cruising, ...
AS Monaco among multiple EuroLeague clubs showing serious interest in John Brown III

2022-05-05

After getting eliminated in a tough battle against Olympiacos in the EuroLeague playoffs, for the French side Monaco is now time to start planning for next season too. The French Riviera club wants to raise the bar even higher next season, trying to reach once again the playoffs and then fighting for a spot in the Final Four. In order to do so, the transfer campaign this summer is gonna be a busy ...
Timothè Luwawu-Cabarrot to change representation heading into the free-agency

2022-05-04

French swingman Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot has decided to change agency and will be now represented by Wasserman, a source told BasketNews. Luwawu-Cabarrot spent this season with the Atlanta Hawks, averaging 4.4 points, 1.6 rebounds, and shot 36% from three-point. A member of the French national team, Luwawu-Cabarrot was previously represented by Excel/BeoBasket and before joining the Atlanta Hawks, ...
The Blue knights: how the Italian prospects can impact the NBA Draft

2022-05-01

In 2020, it was Nico Mannion who broke the negative streak and put Italy back on the map of the NBA Draft. The Arizona alumn was born in Siena, Italy, but grew up in the United States and wasn't a product of the Italian youth basketball system.

Gianni Petrucci on the future of the Italian national team: 'We cannot keep coach Sacchetti forever'

2022-04-29

In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Gianni Petrucci, the president of the Italian basketball federation, talked about the future of the national team, especially the coaching situation. Meo Sacchetti, the current head coach of the national team, has a contract only until the end of EuroBasket and his continuity on the bench is far from certain. "Coach Sacchetti's contract is gonna expire ...
Johannes Voigtmann drawing interest from Armani Exchange Milan

2022-04-28

With the EuroLeague season now over for Armani Exchange Milan, the Italian club are now focusing on reshaping the roster for next season. As previously reported, Armani Exchange and Kevin Pangos already have an agreement in principle for the next season. But coach Ettore Messina's side is also looking at how to reinforce their frontcourt. With Kaleb Tarczewski on an expiring deal and unlikely to ...
The epitome of resilience: Armani Exchange remain alive but for how long?

2022-04-22

A night we witnessed in Milan was filled with strong emotions. AX Armani Exchange Milan conquered Game 2 of the EuroLeague playoff series against Anadolu Efes clawing and scratching until the very end. The Italian club had already lost Nicolo Melli for the rest of the series. Last night, both Malcolm Delaney and Sergio Rodriguez, who were having a fantastic performance, went down with injuries ...
Ergin Ataman after the loss in Game 2: 'The quality of the game was terrible'

2022-04-21

Ergin Ataman wasn't happy with the quality of the game overall. In the post-game conference, the Turkish head coach stated, just like he did after Game 1, that his team didn't play with their own style. "The hustle of the game was very good, but the quality was terrible," coach Ataman confessed. "I think that the two teams missed many shots on both ends, sometimes easy ones too. We didn't have ...
Messina on the future of the series against Efes: 'It's over, we need a miracle'

2022-04-21

Coach Ettore Messina entered the press conference room with a lot of pride for the performance that his players created tonight. AX Armani Exchange won down the stretch after losing both Malcolm Delaney and Sergio Rodriguez, while Shavon Shields made every shot, making the crowd go crazy. "As a club, we're extremely proud of what the players did tonight," Messina said in his post-game conference. ...
Armani Exchange Milan in deeper trouble: Nicolo Melli will miss the rest of the playoffs

2022-04-20

It was a bad night for AX Armani Exchange Milan. They suffered a heavy loss at home against Anadolu Efes Istanbul, and they also lost Nicolo Melli, who picked up a calf injury at the end of the game. The team's captain will remain sidelined for the remainder of the series, according to the club's official announcement. "During yesterday’s game against Efes, Nicolo Melli reported an injury to ...
In a gloomy night Armani Exchange realized that defense can't always win games

2022-04-20

Defense wins games, they say, and that's often true. But no defense can save you if your offense cannot produce any rhythm. This is something that AX Armani Exchange Milan learned in a harsh way last night. Against Anadolu Efes Istanbul, the Italian club recorded an all-time lowest-scoring home game in EuroLeague playoffs history. The most concerning element for Milan, though, is the fact that ...
Ettore Messina shares concerns about Melli's injury: 'It doesn't look good'

2022-04-19

It was a bad night for AX Armani Exchange Milan. They suffered a heavy loss at home against Anadolu Efes Istanbul, and they might also lose Nicolo Melli, who picked up a calf injury at the end of the game. Head coach Ettore Messina, after the game, looked concerned about the condition of his star player. "It was a very complicated night for us, and on top of that, Nicolò Melli suffered an ...
Ergin Ataman after win in Game 1: 'We played Milan's style tonight'

2022-04-19

Anadolu Efes Istanbul head coach Ergin Ataman kept his emotions in the press conference. Despite the win, he didn't look particularly happy about his team's performance, but no matter what, a win is a win. The Turkish head coach confessed that his team played with a different style tonight, more similar to AX Armani Exchange Milan's. "It was a strange game for us, to be honest, we played more like ...
Defense vs Offense: Armani Exchange and Anadolu Efes battle between two very different philosophies

2022-04-18

We had to wait a little bit more than expected, but in the end, we will have one of the most intriguing playoffs series in the recent history of the EuroLeague. Armani Exchange Milan (3) will face reigning champions Anadolu Efes (6) in what could be the most balanced matchup of the playoffs. Milan won both games against Efes during the regular season, but playoffs are a different beast, and ...
The veteran factor: EuroLeague is still a country for 'old' men

2022-04-10

When Zalgiris Kaunas legend Paulius Jankunas said goodbye to EuroLeague basketball last week in the overtime win against Crvena Zvezda, finishing an incredible European career with 13 points and 7 rebounds performance, it almost looked like the perfectly scripted ending of a movie. A veteran leaving the game in the best way possible. But while that moment represented the end of the European career ...
John Brown drawing serious interest from Italian club Germani Brescia

2022-04-09

American big man John Brown III is drawing some serious interest from Italian club Germani Brescia, sources told BasketNews. The player is a free agent after parting ways with EuroLeague side UNICS Kazan. Brown, in the past few days, had already received a proposal from another Italian side, Treviso Basket, sources confirmed to BasketNews, but with Treviso being involved in the battle to avoid ...
EuroLeague MVP award race: five cases for the trophy

2022-04-06

The EuroLeague regular season is coming to an end, and we will have the last round this week. With the playoff picture getting clearer, it looks like a good time to look at the MVP award run. We will look at some of the major profiles of players who'll most likely become the main candidates for the biggest individual award of the EuroLeague season. Although everyone on this topic has his own ...
Devon Hall is Armani Exchange Milan's Swiss Army knife

2022-04-03

When AX Armani Exchange Milan were about to sign Devon Hall last summer, I reached out to several people in the basketball environment to get their pulse on this move. Personally, I already had good feelings about Hall after watching him play in Germany for Bamberg, and he definitely looked like a player on the rise to me. The reactions that I got from the people I reached out to did nothing but ...
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