Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano, commonly known as Olimpia Milano or as EA7 Emporio Armani Milan after its title sponsor, is an LBA Italian professional

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team, based in

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, Italy. Its colors are white and red, and the team is sometimes referred as "Scarpette Rosse" (Little Red Shoes) because team officials imported red Converse All-Star shoes for players from the United States. The tag line stuck, and the nickname is still used by many fans today. As per custom in the Italian league, sponsorship has kept the team name changing frequently. From 1930 until 1955, it was called Borletti Milano. From 1956 to 1973, it was renamed Simmenthal. Other famous sponsorship names were Billy, Simac, Tracer, and Philips, in the 1980s. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below. Olimpia is the most successful basketball club in Italy and one of the most successful in Europe, having won 29 Italian League Championships, 8 Italian National Cups, 4 Italian Super Cups, 3 EuroLeague, 1 FIBA Intercontinental Cup, 3 FIBA Saporta Cups, 2 FIBA Korać Cups and many junior titles. In 2016, the club was included in the

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History

The birth and the Borletti era (1930-1955)

The birth of Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano is traditionally dated 1936, year of the first Italian League Championship title. Actually it was founded 6 years earlier (in 1930) as "Dopolavoro Borletti" by Fratelli Borletti managers. Borletti team won 4 consecutive Italian League Championships from 1936 to

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. In 1947, Milan businessman Adolfo Bogoncelli merged Pallacanestro Como and Borletti to form a new society, commonly known as "Borolimpia". "Borletti" brand was the main sponsor of the team, becoming the first sponsor in the history of Italian sport. In 1955, after 9 Italian League Championships, Borletti brand leaves Olimpia Milano jersey.

The Simmenthal era (1956-1973)

The team regularly won the Italian League Championship in the 1950s and the 1960s, with players including

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, and

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. In 1966, Olimpia won its first FIBA European Champions Cup. In the 1970s, three teams were fighting across Europe for supremacy: Olimpia Milano,

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, and

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and Olimpia Milano were arch-rivals, as the two cities are 25 miles (40 km) apart. While Milano was a frequent

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champion, they were unable to win again the prestigious FIBA European Champions Cup. Late in the 1970s, the quality of the club declined, but Olimpia Milano still managed to win a FIBA Cup Winners' Cup. In 1973, Simmenthal brand leaves Olimpia jersey after 17 years and 10 Italian League Championships.

1974–2007

In the 1970s through the 1980s, the team acquired several notable players, including the Boselli twins (Franco and Dino),

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, Chas Menatti, Dino Meneghin, Mike D'Antoni,

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. Bob McAdoo,

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, Antoine Carr, and Mike Brown. American

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Dan Peterson led the team back to prominence. In the 1980s, the team was sold to the Gabetti family. After this, they qualified for nine Serie A championships finals, winning five, with the 1987 team winning the Serie A title, the

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(won also in 1988: both finals were won against Maccabi Tel Aviv), the

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and the

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. This gave the club the coveted "Triple Crown" and the even rarer "Quadruple Crown". Led by point guard Sasha Djordjević, the team won another FIBA Korać Cup in 1993. Bepi Stefanel purchased the team franchise in 1994, and signed-up notable European players like Dejan Bodiroga, Gregor Fučka, Sandro De Pol, and

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. In 1996, the team won the Italian Cup and its 25th Italian National Championship, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the club. Team management was inconsistent, as ownership groups from 1998 to 2004. Players of the team included

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, Hugo Sconochini,

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and Petar Naumoski. In 2005, owner Corbelli, which bought the club in 2002, from Sergio Tacchini, was flanked by Adriano Galliani (managing director of Italian Football club A.C. Milan), Massimo Moratti (President of rival club Internazionale), NBA star Kobe Bryant, and stylist

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, as sponsor with the Armani Jeans brand. After difficult years, led by coach Lino Lardo, Olimpia reached the national championship Finals, finally being beaten by Climamio Bologna. On January 25, 2006, in the midst of a disappointing season in the EuroLeague and domestically, Djordjevic was named as the team's new coach. He left as coach after the 2006–07 season, but not before securing Olimpia a berth in the 2007–08 Euroleague.

2008–present

In 2008,

bought the team from Giorgio Corbelli, standing as the only owner, entirely changing the management structure, naming Livio Proli as president, and Lucio Zanca as

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. Piero Bucchi was chosen to coach the new team, leading Olimpia twice to second place in LEGA Basket, being defeated by

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in both cases. Alessandro Gentile

In January 2011, after 23 years, coach Dan Peterson came back from retirement to replace Piero Bucchi as head coach. However, his stint at Olimpia Milano this time was quite short: after failing to reach the championship Finals, on June 9, Olimpia Milano announced Sergio Scariolo as new head coach for the 2011–12 season. The first player signed for the 2011–12 season was

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, an American-born play maker, who had played the previous season with Power Electronics Valencia. Owing to the

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, Danilo Gallinari went back to his alma mater, playing 15 games (8 in the Italian League, 7 in EuroLeague): he left the team in December. Sergio Scariolo was replaced by Luca Banchi at the beginning of the 2013–14 season, and the team brought from

: David Moss,

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, and Daniel Hackett. The team reached the quarterfinals of EuroLeague, 16 years after its last appearance, but the team lost against the eventual league champions, Maccabi Tel Aviv. The team finished in the 1st position the LEGA Basket regular season, and in the 7th game of the playoff's finals, Olimpia won its 26th Italian League championship title, its first after 18 years.

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, the

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of Olimpia, was named MVP of the finals. On June 29, 2017,

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was hired as the new head coach and on June 15, 2018, Milano went to win his 28th title by beating

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in game 6 of the

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. On June 11, 2019, legend

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signed a deal as the new head coach of the club and president of all basketball operations for the following three seasons. On May 4, 2021, the club reached the Euroleague Final Four after 29 years ( 1992 Final Four).

Logos

Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano logo.svg, (The current non-sponsorship logo of the club). Logo EA7 Milano.png , (The Emporio Armani era sponsorship logo of the club). Logo Pallacanestro Olimpia Milano.png , (A previous non-sponsorship logo of the club).

Arenas

Secondary Arenas

Olimpia Milano used the OND Borletti outdoor court of Via Costanza for almost 20 years. In the mid-1940s, they moved to the Palazzo dello Sport della Fiera, which had a seating capacity of 18,000 people, and was then the largest indoor sports arena in Europe, and second only to the

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. In 1960, the Palazzo dello Sport della Fiera was abandoned, and Olimpia moved into the original structure of the PalaLido, which then had a smaller seating capacity of 3,500, but because of lack of security measures at the time, often was filled with up to 10,000 people. At the end of the 1970s, Olimpia moved into the newly built

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, a multi-purpose facility built next to the Meazza Stadium, that was able to hold about 15,000 spectators. In 1985, the roof of the

collapsed and Olimpia returned to PalaLido for a season, waiting for the construction of a provisional arena. In 1986, they moved into the recently built 10,045 seat PalaTrussardi, where they played through the early 1990s. The club then moved into its current home arena, the Mediolanum Forum, which has a seating capacity of 12,700. The club has also played some home games at the 6,700 seat

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. Recently, the club considered moving back to the newly rebuilt and modernized PalaLido (named Allianz Cloud), after it was remodeled, and had its seating capacity expanded. However, the club ultimately decided to continue using the Mediolanum Forum as its home arena, due to its much larger seating capacity, as compared to the new Allianz Cloud. However, the new arena is used when Mediolanum Forum is unavailable.

Honours

Domestic competitions

: Winners (29): 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1971–72, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1995–96, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2021–22 : Runners-up (18): 1934, 1940–41, 1955–56, 1963–64, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1990–91, 2004–05, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12 *

: Winners (8): 1971–72, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1995–96, 2015–16, 2016–17,

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, 2021–22 : Runners-up (2): 1969–70, 2014–15 * Italian Supercup : Winners (4): 2016, 2017,

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, 2020 : Runners-up (3): 1996, 2014,

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, 2021

European competitions

* EuroLeague : Winners (3): 1965–66, 1986–87, 1987–88 : Runners-up (2): 1966–67, 1982–83 : Semifinalists (3): 1963–64, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1985–86 : 3rd place (2): 1991–92,

: Final Four (5): 1966, 1967, 1988,

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, 2021 * FIBA Saporta Cup (defunct) : Winners (3): 1970–71, 1971–72, 1975–76 : Runners-up (2): 1983–84, 1997–98 : Semifinalists (1): 1976–77 * FIBA Korać Cup (defunct) : Winners (2): 1984–85, 1992–93 : Runners-up (2): 1994–95, 1995–96 : Semifinalists (3): 1977–78, 1988–89, 1993–94 *

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(semi-official, defunct) : 3rd place (2): 1985,

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: 4th place (2):

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, 1987 * Latin Cup (defunct) : Winners (1): 1966 : Runners-up (1):

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Worldwide competitions

* FIBA Intercontinental Cup : Winners (1): 1987 : 3rd place (2): 1967,

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* McDonald's Championship (defunct) : 3rd place (2): 1987,

Unofficial

* Triple Crown : Winners (1): 1986–87 * Small Triple Crown : Winners (1): 1971–72

Other Competitions

* Castellanza, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2007 * Memoriale di Tulio Rochlitzer : Winners (1): 2007 * Torneo Caorle : Winners (2): 2007, 2011 * Reggio Emilia, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2008 * Torneo Lombardia : Winners (2): 2009, 2016 * Torneo Castelleto Ticino : Winners (3): 2009, 2018, 2019 * Verona, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2011 * Trofeo de Ejea de los Caballeros : Winners (1): 2011 * Belgrade, Serbia Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2014 * Torneo del Circuito della Valtellina : Winners (1): 2014 * Trofeo Memorial Gianni Brusinelli : Winners (1): 2016 * Torneo Lovari : Winners (1): 2017 * Torneo Lucca : Winners (1): 2019 * Milan, Italy Invitational Game : Winners (1): 2019

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Retired numbers

Season by season

Top performances in European & Worldwide competitions

Matches against NBA teams

Sponsorship names

Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as: *Borletti (1930–1955) *Simmenthal (1955–1973) *

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(1975–1978) *Billy (1978–1983) *Simac (1983–1986) *Tracer (1986–1988) *

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(1988–1993) *

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(1993–94) *Stefanel (1994–1998) *

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(1998–99) * Adecco (1999–2002) *Pippo (2002–03) * Breil (2003–04) * Armani Jeans (2004–2011) * EA7 Emporio Armani (2011–2018) * AX Armani Exchange (2018–present)

Notable players

* #9

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(1948–1957) * #7

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(1949–1955) * #5

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(1949–1960) * #3

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(1950–1958) * #8

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(1950–1963) * #7

(1955–1968) * #10

(1956–1970) * #9

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(1959–1965) * #6

(1962–1967) * #8 Massimo Masini (1963–1974) * #5 Giulio Iellini (1964–1975) * #9

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(1965–1966) * #15

(1965–1966) * #18, #9

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(1967–1969, 1973–1983) * #6 Giuseppe Brumatti (1967–1977) * #13

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(1969–1975) * #18 (Ret) Art Kenney (1970–1973) *

(1975–1980) * #12

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(1976–1987) * #8 (Ret) Mike D'Antoni (1977–1990) * #11 (Ret) Dino Meneghin (1980–1990, 1993–1994) * #10

(1981–1989) * #15

(1984–1985) * #14

(1984–1986) * #7 Riccardo Pittis (1984–1993) * #13 Ken Barlow (1986–1987) * #15 Bob McAdoo (1986–1990) * #13 Ricky Brown (1987–1988) * #12 Antonello Riva (1989–1994) * #15 Darryl Dawkins (1991–1992) * Antonio Davis (1992–1993) * #4, #19 Aleksandar Đorđević (1992–1994, 2005) * Hugo Sconochini (1993–1995, 2002–2004) * #10 Dejan Bodiroga (1994–1996) * #7 Gregor Fučka (1994–1997) * #5

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(1994–1998) * #15

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(1995–1996) * #9

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(1996–2000, 2008–2011) *

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(1997–1998) * #12 Melvin Booker (1998–1999, 2007–2008) *

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(2005–2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010) * #8 Danilo Gallinari (2006–2008; 2011) *

Mindaugas Katelynas Mindaugas Katelynas (born 16 May 1983) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. Playing career Born in Alytus, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union, Katelynas grew up with Alytus youth basketball team. In 2001, he accepted a scholarship at the Uni ...

(2007–2009) * #14, #34 David Hawkins (2008–2009, 2010–2011) * #12

Richard Mason Rocca Richard Mason Rocca (born November 6, 1977) is an American born Italian retired professional basketball player who played for the Italian National Basketball Team. Born in Evanston, Illinois, his father is of Italian descent. He stands 203 cm ...

(2008–2012) * #8

Jonas Mačiulis Jonas Mačiulis (born 10 February 1985) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player. Standing at , he mainly plays at the small forward position. As a member of the senior Lithuanian national team, he earned an All-EuroBasket Team sel ...

(2009–2011) *

Marijonas Petravičius Marijonas Petravičius (born October 24, 1979) is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player. He was a member of the Lithuania national team. He mainly played the center position, but he could also play the power forward position. Pro ...

(2009–2011) *

Stefano Mancinelli Stefano Mancinelli (born March 17, 1983) is an Italian professional basketball player for Fortitudo Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A. He also represented the Italian national basketball team. Standing at , he plays at the small forward and powe ...

(2009–2012) * #9, #18 Nicolò Melli (2010–2015) * #15 Ioannis Bourousis (2011–2013) *

Malik Hairston Malik Samory Hairston (born February 23, 1987) is an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard-small forward from the University of Oregon's Ducks, he was chosen in the 2008 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns, who then traded him to ...

(2011–2013) * #25, #5

(2011–2016) * #23

Keith Langford Andre Keith Langford (born September 15, 1983) is an American professional basketball player who last played for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League. Standing at 6' 4" (1.93 m), he primarily plays at the shooting guard position. He played colle ...

(2012–2014) * #55

Curtis Jerrells Curtis Louis Jerrells Jr. (born February 5, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for Zamalek of the Egyptian Basketball Super League. Standing at , he plays at the point guard position. High school Jerrells was a four-year starter ...

(2013–2014; 2017–2019) * #24

Samardo Samuels Samardo Samuels (born January 9, 1989) is a Jamaican professional basketball player for Bashkimi Prizren of the Kosovo Basketball Superleague. He is a tall power forward–center who attended college at the University of Louisville. High scho ...

(2013–2015) * #13

Milan Mačvan Milan Mačvan ( sr, Милан Мачван, born 16 November 1989) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. Standing at , he played at the power forward position. He also represented the Serbian national basketball team international ...

(2015–2017) * #43

Krunoslav Simon Krunoslav Simon (born 24 June 1985) is a Croatian professional basketball currently playing for Cedevita Junior of the Croatian League. Professional career After spending his youth years in KK Maksimir and KK Zrinjevac, Simon joined KK Zagreb ...

(2015–2017) * #21

Rakim Sanders Rakim Sanders (born July 8, 1989) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Changwon LG Sakers of the Korean Basketball League. He played college basketball with the Boston College Eagles for three seasons, and with the ...

(2016–2017) *

Mantas Kalnietis Mantas Kalnietis (born 6 September 1986) is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player who last played for Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the EuroLeague. He was also a member of the Lithuanian national b ...

(2016–2018) * #0

Drew Goudelock Andrew Darius Goudelock (born December 7, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for Bilbao Basket of the Liga ACB. Standing at , he plays the shooting guard position. He played college basketball for the Charleston Cougars and was ...

(2017–2018) * #9

Dairis Bertāns Dairis Bertāns (born September 9, 1989) is a Latvian professional basketball player for Real Betis of the Spanish Liga ACB. Bertāns also plays for the Latvia national basketball team. He is the older brother of Dāvis Bertāns. Professional ca ...

(2017–2019) * #5 Vladimir Micov (2017–2021) * #77

Artūras Gudaitis Artūras Gudaitis (born 19 June 1993) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who last played for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. Standing at 2.08 m, he plays at the center position. He was selected by the Phi ...

(2017–2020) * #19

Mindaugas Kuzminskas Mindaugas Kuzminskas (born 19 October 1989) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Pınar Karşıyaka of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He also represents the Lithuanian national team. He is 2.05 m (6'8 ") tall, and he can play b ...

(2018–2019) * #00

Amedeo Della Valle Amedeo Della Valle (born April 11, 1993) is an Italian professional basketball player for Basket Brescia Leonessa of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A. He attended Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nevada before spending two seasons playing college baske ...

(2018–2020) * #32 Jeff Brooks (2018–2021) * #13 Sergio Rodriguez (2019–present) * #42 Kyle Hines (2020–present) * #70

Luigi Datome Luigi "Gigi" Datome (born 27 November 1987) is an Italian professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. Standing at , he plays at the small forward and power forward positions. Datome was ...

(2020–present)

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External links

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2018-19 LBA team page

2018-19 Euroleague team page
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