''Superbasket Magazine'' is an Italian magazine dedicated to the coverage of European and world

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

. It was first published in 1979, being one of the oldest basketball publications in

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History and profile

''Superbasket Magazine'' was founded by Aldo Giordani in 1979. Every year of its existence until 2010, a panel of its journalists delivered the Mister Europa Player of the Year Award, which was based on European players' performances with their

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and national teams. The magazine was headquartered in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

until 1992 when it was moved to

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

. Due to financial issues, it had to shut down its publication from February 2012 to March 2014, when a monthly online version was introduced.

References

External links

Magazine's Official website
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