2007–08 Lega Basket Serie A
The 2007–08 Lega Basket Serie A season, known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons, was the 86th season of the Lega Basket Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy. The regular season ran from September 30, 2007 to April 27, 2008, 18 teams played 34 games each. At the end of the regular season, the top 8 teams made the play-offs whilst the lowest ranked teams, Cimberio Varese and Legea Scafati, were relegated to the Legadue. Montepaschi Siena won their 3rd title by winning the playoff finals series against Lottomatica Roma. Teams Regular season * Legea Scafati was penalized by 7 points for administrative irregularities Playoffs Coppa Italia External links Serie A official website {{DEFAULTSORT:2007-08 Lega Basket Serie A Lega Basket Serie A seasons 1 Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extend ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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2006–07 Lega Basket Serie A
The 2006–07 Lega Basket Serie A season, known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons, was the 85th season of the Lega Basket Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy. The regular season ran from October 8, 2006 to May 2007, 18 teams played 34 games each. The top 8 teams made the play-offs whilst the lowest ranked teams, Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia and TDShop.it Livorno, were relegated to the Legadue. Montepaschi Siena won their second title by winning the playoff finals series against VidiVici Bologna. Regular Season 2006/07 Teams marked in green qualified for the playoffs. Teams marked in red were relegated to Serie A2. Benetton has been penalized 12 points for signing 19 professional players instead of maximum allowed 18. TDshop.it has been penalized 2 points for budgetary irregularities. Playoffs Quarterfinals * Montepaschi Siena - Tisettanta Cantù 3-0 (95-76, 97-82, 91-60) * Armani Jeans Milano - Whirlpool Varese 3-1 (75-72, 77-69, 62 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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DatchForum
Unipol Forum (formerly the FilaForum, DatchForum and Mediolanum Forum; known as the Forum di Milano in events where commercial naming rights are prohibited) is an indoor sports arena that is located in Assago, a small town 3 km outside Milan, Italy. The arena has a seating capacity of 12,800 and is primarily used for basketball, ice hockey, tennis and live concerts. The venue is the home ground of the EuroLeague and Italian Serie A professional basketball team AX Armani Exchange Milan. In May 2024, the current sponsor, Unipol, took over naming rights in a deal that will run to 2027. History The Forum of Assago was built by Giuseppe Cabassi and his son Luca in 1990. It was named in several different way due to different sponsorships during the years: from 1993 to 2006 it was named FilaForum, from 2006 to 2008 DatchForum and then, from 2009 to 2023, MediolanumForum. The venue is located in the big Milanofiori complex and it covers an area of 40,000 sqm. The layout of the roo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Pallacanestro Virtus Roma
Virtus Roma 1960, commonly known as Virtus Roma, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Rome, Lazio. The club, named Pallacanestro Virtus Roma competed in the Italian basketball league system, first division of Italian basketball, the Lega Basket Serie A, LBA, for decades until 2020, when it went bankrupt. In 2021 the club was refounded. It was formerly a major side in Europe, winning the 1983–84 FIBA European Champions Cup (EuroLeague), and at one time being one of only 13 clubs to hold a EuroLeague A license. However, its standing later waned, and Virtus became less competitive in both Europe and the domestic Lega Basket Serie A, LBA - which it had won in 1983 – before being voluntarily promotion and relegation, relegated to the Italian second division in July 2015. In December 2020, Virtus was dissolved after the club was declared bankrupt after months of financial struggles. For past club sponsorship names, see #Sponsorship names, sponsorship names. History T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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PalaMangano
PalaMangano is an indoor sporting arena located in Scafati, Italy. The capacity of the arena is 3,500 people and is named after former coach Massimo Mangano. It is currently home of the Scafati Basket basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ... team. Indoor arenas in Italy {{Italy-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Legea Scafati
Scafati Basket, known for sponsorship reasons as Givova Scafati, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Scafati, Campania. The club competes in the top level Italian professional basketball league, the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). History Scafati Basket traces its history to Silvio Pellico, a club founded by a group of students in 1949. That merged with Savoia in 1955 to form Scafatese Basket, which would be renamed Centro Sportivo Scafatese in 1969. The team played in the amateur regional Serie C and Serie D until the early 1990s when, under the presidency of Aniello Longobardi, it climbed up divisions to reach the first tier Serie A in 2006. It was relegated from the Serie A in 2007–08. Arena The team has played its home games in the PalaMangano (named after former head coach Massimo Mangano), it holds 3,700 seats. Sponsorship names Throughout the years, due to sponsorship, the club has been known as: *Rida Scafati (2001–2003) *Eurorida Scafati (2003–2006) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Unipol Arena
Unipol Arena (previously known as Futurshow Station, PalaMalaguti and originally Palasport Casalecchio) is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located in Casalecchio di Reno, Città Metropolitana di Bologna, citta Metropolitana di Bologna, Italy. The seating capacity of the arena for basketball games is 11,000 people, and the seating capacity for concerts is 20,000 people. It was opened in December 1993. It was home to the Virtus Bologna basketball team from 1996 to 2017. It is served by Casalecchio Palasport railway station. History During the year 2008, the arena had restyling works, which included a new museum dedicated to Virtus' history, four new JumboTrons, new white seats and black stairs, and new white parquet. In October 2011, the arena changed its name to the current Unipol Arena, in a name sponsorship marketing deal, which was scheduled to last through 2016. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Virtus Bologna
Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one of the oldest in Europe. Virtus is the second most titled basketball club in Italy after Olimpia Milano, having won 16 Italian Lega Basket Serie A, national championships, 8 Italian Basketball Cup, Italian National Cups and 4 Italian Basketball Supercup, Italian Supercups. Moreover, it is one of the most successful teams in European competitions, having won two EuroLeagues, one EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup, one FIBA Saporta Cup, one FIBA EuroChallenge, EuroChallenge and one Basketball Champions League. It currently plays in the Italian first division Lega Basket Serie A, LBA as well as in the EuroLeague. The club is owned by the coffee entrepreneur Massimo Zanetti. Some of the club's star players over the years have included: Gianni Bertolo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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PalaBarbuto
PalaBarbuto, also known by its naming rights, sponsorship name of PalaEldo, is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena located in Naples, Italy. The facility is located in ''Viale Giochi del Mediterraneo'', in close proximity to the Olympic swimming pool Piscina Felice Scandone. History The arena was built and inaugurated in 2003, with a capacity of 4,000 seats, to host Napoli Basket (2016), Basketball Napoli matches, due to the structural decay of the Mario Argento, located opposite on viale Giochi del Mediterraneo. Originally named after the sports reporter Lello Barbuto and now bearing the name of Eldo Megastore, a chain of Italian electronics mega stores, it is currently the home of the professional basketball teams Nuova AMG Sebastiani Basket Rieti, Nuova AMG Sebastiani Basket of the Lega Basket and S.S. Basket Napoli, Eldo Napoli. In September 2006, its seating capacity was increased to 5,500 in order to comply with Euroleague arena requirements, which at that time required a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Piero Bucchi
Piero Bucchi (born 5 March 1958) is an Italian basketball coach. He is the current head coach of Valtur Brindisi of the Serie A2. Coaching Career Piero Bucchi started his coach-career with Basket Rimini Crabs in 1992. He became the head coach of that team in March 1996. At the end of the 1996–97 season he achieved the promotion to Serie A. At the beginning of the 1999–2000 Serie A season, he became the head coach of Benetton Treviso. With him they won two Cups and one Supercup. Then he went to Basket Napoli and later to Lottomatica Roma where he remained for two and a half seasons, until his exemption during the 2004–05 Serie A season. Piero returned to Napoli and won another Cup. With the end of his contract with Napoli on 17 June 2008, he was engaged by the Giorgio Armani's staff, the new owner of Olimpia Milano for the 2008–09 Lega Basket Serie A. After reaching two playoffs finals with Milano, on 3 January 2011, Piero Bucchi was sacked due to a series of major d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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SS Basket Napoli
S.S. Basket Napoli was an Italian professional basketball club that was based in Naples, Campania. The club's full name was Società Sportiva Basket Napoli. The team ceased activities in 2009. For past club sponsorship names, see sponsorship names. History The team was playing in the second division LegaDue as Serapide Pozzuoli when it was moved to Naples and came under the ownership of Mario Maione. After the 2001–2002 season, the club was promoted to the first division Serie A after winning the LegaDue. Basket Napoli took part in the ULEB Cup 2004-05, in the 2006-07 EuroLeague and won the Italian Cup in 2006. In September 2008, Basket Napoli was excluded from the Serie A along with Orlandina Basket due to financial problems. Restarting from the regional leagues, the side was dissolved in 2009. Notable players 2000's * Tierre Brown 1 season: '06-'07 * Larry O'Bannon 1 season: '06-'07 * - Tyrone Ellis 1 season: '06-'07 * Ansu Sesay 2 seasons: '05-'07 * Michel Mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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PalaWhirlpool
Palasport Lino Oldrini, known as Enerxenia Arena for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Varese, Italy. The seating capacity of the arena is 5,300 people for basketball games. History The arena hosted the 1970 FIBA Intercontinental Cup basketball tournament. It is currently the home arena of the Italian League professional basketball club Pallacanestro Varese. See also * List of indoor arenas in Italy The following is a list of Arena, indoor arenas in Italy with capacity for at least 4,000 spectators. Most of the arenas in this list are multi-purpose venues, used for individual sports, team sport as well as cultural and political events. Curre ... References External links Official site Indoor arenas in Italy Basketball venues in Italy 1964 establishments in Italy Sports venues completed in 1964 {{Italy-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Valerio Bianchini
Valerio Bianchini (born July 22, 1943) is an Italian professional basketball coach. He was the first coach in Italian basketball to win three championship titles with three clubs ( Cantù, Virtus Roma and Victoria Libertas Pesaro). His nickname is "''Il vate''" ("The prophet"). Coaching career In 1974, Bianchini began his coaching career by Stella Azzurra Roma where he stayed for five seasons. The first season came out 12th in the Serie A1, also participating with the team at the FIBA Korać Cup where they arrived until the Group stage of 16. The next two seasons were his best in Stella Azzurra. In 1976 he led his team to fourth place in the regular season and won the participation rights in the Korać Cup of the next year. In the season 1976–77 the European obligations after it cost the team came in eighth in the championship. However Valerio Bianchini led the compact team of Stella Azzurra in a frantic march (undefeated for 6 consecutive games) in Korać Cup that was only ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |