Dante John Calabria (born November 8, 1973) is an Italian-American former professional

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player and coach. He is currently the head coach of

Pistoia Basket 2000 A.S. Pistoia Basket 2000, known for sponsorship reasons as Giorgio Tesi Group Pistoia, is an Italian professional basketball team based in Pistoia, Tuscany. History The city of Pistoia was formerly represented in the first division Lega Basket Ser ...

of the

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(LBA).

College career

Calabria played

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under coach

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from 1992 to 1996. He was a member of the Tar Heels’ 1993 national championship team.

Professional career

He moved to Europe for his professional career, spending a good part of it in the Italian

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International career

A dual national of United States and Italy, he played for the

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Coaching career

In 2011, Calabria was named director of basketball operations at UNC Wilmington under coach Buzz Peterson. In 2012, he was moved to a full assistant role with the departure of Brooks Lee. Calabria then had coaching stints at

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and at Basket Taranto in Italy, before joining NAIA school

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as an assistant coach under

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. After Massimino's death, Calabria was named Keiser's Interim Head Coach in September 2017, with the Interim tag being removed in January 2018. In June 2018, Calabria became an assistant coach of Larry Brown for the Italian basketball club

Auxilium Torino Auxilium Pallacanestro Torino was an Italian professional basketball club in Turin, Piedmont. It competed in the first division of Italian basketball, the Lega Basket Serie A for the last time in the 2018–19 season. The club won one trophy, th ...

. Calabria spent two seasons as an assistant coach at

Barry University Barry University is a private Catholic university in Miami Shores, Florida. Founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters, it is one of the largest Catholic universities in the Southeast and is located within the Archdiocese of Miami. Th ...

in Florida. He resigned in September 2021. On May 25, 2022, he was named the head basketball coach of

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. On July 17, 2024, he signed with

of the

(LBA).

References

External links

Serie A profile
Retrieved 11 August 2015
UNCW coaching bio
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