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De' Longhi Treviso
Universo Treviso Basket (diminutive TvB), known for sponsorship reasons as NutriBullet Treviso, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Treviso, Veneto. Founded in 2012, it plays in the Italian basketball first division Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) since the 2019–20 LBA season, 2019–20 season. Despite being a distinct club, Universo Treviso ''de facto'' inherited the fanbase of Pallacanestro Treviso, the historic club of the town. History 2012–2014: Beginnings Following the Benetton family's planned withdrawal from professional basketball that would occur in July 2012 and see Pallacanestro Treviso, Benetton Treviso without backing, the Universo Treviso consortium was launched in March 2012 with the goal to assure the club's continued presence as a professional outfit. Former players, led by Riccardo Pittis who served as the consortium's guarantor, were at the basis of the initiative. After overcoming some economic struggles, thanks to the efforts of Pittis, Claudio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treviso Basket Logo 2019
Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls (''le Mura'') or in the historical and monumental center; some 80,000 live in the urban center while the city hinterland has a population of approximately 170,000. The city is home to the headquarters of clothing retailer Benetton, Sisley, Stefanel, Geox, Diadora and Lotto Sport Italia, appliance maker De'Longhi, and bicycle maker Pinarello. Treviso is also known for being the original production area of Prosecco wine and radicchio, and is thought to have been the origin of the popular Italian dessert Tiramisù. History Ancient era Some believe that Treviso derived its name from the Celtic word "tarvos" mixed with the Latin ending "isium" forming "Tarvisium", of the tarvos. Tarvos means bull in Celtic mythology, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro
The Italian Basketball Federation ( it, Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro; FIP) is the governing body of basketball in Italy. It is based in Rome. It organises national competitions in Italy and the Italian basketball leagues, which operate the country's two professional leagues, Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and Serie A2 Basket. It is also responsible for appointing the management of the Italian national basketball team (men's) and women's. But also youth men's ( under-19 and under-17), women's ( under-19 and under-17), 3x3 men's and women's basketball teams. It is a member of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as one of the founding member, and has one of the world's longest basketball traditions. Competitions The FIP also organizes several competitions: * National cups: ** Italian LNP Cup * Women's competitions: ** Serie A1 (women's basketball) Sponsors SourceFIP.it/small> See also *Italian National Basketball Team *Italian Cup *Italian Supercup *Italian Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponzano Veneto
Ponzano Veneto is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about northwest of Treviso. Ponzano Veneto borders the following municipalities: Paese, Povegliano, Treviso, Villorba, Volpago del Montello. Ponzano Veneto is home to the headquarters of United Colors of Benetton, one of the biggest Italian fashion houses and clothing labels in the world. The headquarters of the company is situated in the Villa Minelli, which was bought by the group in 1969 and became the main headquarters of the company in the 1980s. History In 1807, Ponzano, Paderno, and Merlengo—three ''frazioni'' (subdivisions) located a few kilometers North of the city of Treviso—formed the ''Comune di Ponzano'', which then became ''Ponzano Veneto'' in 1869. It is likely that there was some kind of inhabitation in antiquity, due to the fact that the area that is now Ponzano Veneto was crossed by via Postumia, the Roman road connec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlandina Basket
Orlandina Basket, known as Infodrive Capo d'Orlando for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Capo d'Orlando, Sicily. It plays in the second tier Serie A2 Basket. Founded in 1978, it was one of the youngest teams of the Serie A 2007-2008 based on foundation date, with in addition being the city with fewest citizens. Financial issues forced the team to restart from the Serie C Dilettanti after being excluded from Serie A in October 2008, but thanks to two promotions and two repechages the team managed to climb back to the upper-most league, where it competed for four years before being relegated to the lower league in 2018. History Early beginnings After many years of activity in the regional arena, in 1996, after a relegation to Serie C2 with only one victory out of thirty matches, she was taken over by the entrepreneur Enzo Sindoni. The Fiat Vinci Capo d'Orlando (later Nebrodi Gas and from 1998 Upea) largely won its championship (29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominez Burnett
Dominez Burnett (born October 28, 1992) is an American professional basketball player from Flint, Michigan. Burnett last played for MZT Skopje. In 2016, Burnett was named the Bevo Francis National Small College Basketball Player of the Year. Prior to that, in 2015, Burnett was named the NABC NAIA Division II Player of the Year, while playing for Davenport University. Professional career Burnett started his professional career in 2016 with BK Pardubice and as a rookie lead his team in scoring. He also was the fifth leading scorer in the FIBA Europe Cup. Burnett shot 58% from the field as a rookie in FIBA and resigned with BK Pardubice for the 2017–18 season. On January 14, 2018, after leading the Czech Basketball League in scoring, Burnett was bought out his contract and joined BK Ventspils of the Latvian Basketball League where he won a Latvian Championship in the 2017–18 season. Burnett won the Italian Serie A2 cup and the Italian Serie A2 Championship with Universo Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amedeo Tessitori
Amedeo Vittorio Tessitori (born 7 October 1994) is an Italian professional basketball player for Reyer Venezia of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the Italian National Basketball. Professional career Tessitori was raised in the youth team of Virtus Siena Basket, where he made his first team debut in the 2010–11 season playing in the Serie A Dilettanti. In March 2011, he was nominated MVP of the 2010-11 LNP Italian Cup, won by Virtus Siena. In the 2011–12 season, he averaged 13.5 points, 7.6 rebounds and 0.6 assist. On 17 September 2012, he was signed by Dinamo Sassari, but he was loaned to Fulgor Libertas Forlì for the 2012–13 season, where averaged 7.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 0.3 assist. Tessitori played for Sassari in the 2013–14 season, scoring 4.3 points, with 2 rebounds and 0.3 assists. In the 2014–15 season, Tessitori was signed by JuveCaserta Basket, where he averaged 3.0 points and 2.1 rebounds. While in the 2015–16 season, he moved to Pallacanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Logan (basketball)
David Kyle Logan (born December 26, 1982) is an American–born naturalized Polish professional basketball player for Scafati Basket of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). High school and college career Logan attended North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Logan led the US college basketball in scoring averaging 28.6 points per game in his senior year at the University of Indianapolis. His performances earned him the NCAA II Player of the Year Award. He finished his collegiate career as the all-time leading scorer in Indianapolis with 2,352 points. Professional career Logan signed for the 2005–06 season with the Italian second division club Pallacanestro Pavia. In December 2005 he moved to Israel and signed with Hapoel MB9 Ramat Hasharon, playing under Miki Berkowitz. Logan averaged 15.4 points in 22 games. After that he went back to the US and played seven games for the Fort Worth Flyers in the NBDL. He finished the 2006–07 season playing for SKS Starogard in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimiliano Menetti
Massimiliano "Max" Menetti (born 27 January 1973) is an Italian professional basketball coach, who was most recently the head coach of Italian team Pallacanestro Reggiana . Career After spending years coaching the youth teams of Pallacanestro Reggiana and serving as assistant coach, Menetti was offered the head coach role for the 2006–07 season though he returned to the assistant role at the end of the season. After a stint at Sutor Montegranaro in 2009–10 (again as an assistant), he returned to Reggio Emilia. One year later he would be named head coach again, a position he would make his for the subsequent seasons. In 2014 he led Pallacanestro Reggiana to the EuroChallenge title. On 1 July 2015, his contract was extended until 2017. On 16 May 2018, Menetti and Pallacanestro Reggiana consensually parted ways, with one year of contract still left. Menetti left the club after 8 seasons as head coach since the 2011 takeover, winning promotion to Serie A in 2012, five consecut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pallacanestro Trieste
Pallacanestro Trieste 2004 is an Italian professional basketball club based in Trieste. They play in the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) since the 2018–19 season. The Allianz Dome serves as the club's home arena. History A number of Trieste teams had played in the first division Serie A, the most successful of which was Società Ginnastica Triestina (from the 1930s to the 1960s) that won several national championships in the 1930s and 1940s. Three other top division Trieste sides were Lega Nazionale Trieste (1949-1951), San Giusto Trieste (1948-1949) and Polizia Civile Trieste (1949-1950). Pallacanestro Trieste was established in 1975, it played in the top tier Serie A from 1982 to 1986, 1990 to 1997 and again from 1999 to 2004, with a best result of third in 1994. That same year, it reached the FIBA Korać Cup final. The next season saw the team reaching the Italian Cup final. After the 2003-04 season, the club went bankrupt and was relegated to the lower divisions. After ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortitudo Bologna
Fortitudo Pallacanestro Bologna 103, commonly known as Fortitudo Bologna and currently known as Fortitudo Kiğılı Bologna for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball club based in Bologna, Italy and currently plays in the second division. History Fortitudo has for much of its history played second fiddle in its own city to arch rivals Virtus Bologna, with whom it contest the fierce Bologna Derby. Fortitudo won its first major trophy in 1998, winning the Italian Cup. Fortitudo made the Italian league finals ten consecutive years (1997–2006). After three straight finals losses, Fortitudo won the Serie A for the first time in 2000. Four consecutive finals losses were followed by Fortitudo's second league title in 2005, courtesy of a 3–1 win over Armani Jeans Milano in the finals series when instant replay upheld a Ruben Douglas buzzer beater in Game 4 of the championship series. In recent years, Fortitudo had been a fixture in the European top-tier Euroleague. Fortitudo's fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Casale
Associazione Sportiva Junior Pallacanestro Casale Monferrato, commonly known as Junior Casale and currently for sponsorship reasons as Novipiù Casale Monferrato is an Italian professional basketball team based in Casale Monferrato, Piedmont. It plays in the Italian second division Serie A2. The team plays its home games in the PalaFerraris, which has a capacity of 3,508 people. History Associazione Sportiva Junior Libertas Pallacanestro was founded in 1956 and took part in the regional Prima Divisione that same season. It reached the second division in less than ten years. Back in the fourth division Serie B2 in 2000–01, the club earned a promotion to the Serie B d'Eccellenza that season. Winning that league's cup in 2005, Junior was promoted to the second division LegaDue as well after beating Forlì in the playoff finals on 2 June 2005. The side would reach the promotion playoffs five times in the next six seasons, with two semifinal exits their best results until 2010-11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serie A2 Basket
Serie A2, known for sponsorship reasons as Serie A2 Old Wild West, is a men's basketball league in Italy. It constitutes the second-tier of the Italian league pyramid, below the first division LBA and above the third division Serie B, with promotion/relegation occurring between these leagues. It is run by the Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP), itself regulated by the FIP, the Italian federation. Names History The league was created in May 1974, by the Lega Basket, the organisation in charge of running the LBA (to this day), that decided to create a new second division with 10 clubs. The two that were relegated during that season, and 8 from the now-former second tier Serie B, chosen with an on and off the court criteria. The 1975–76 season saw 12 clubs take part, after a complicated system had seen a transfer of clubs from the Serie A1 to the A2. In June 2001, the LegaDue was created to replace the Serie A2. Lega Basket now took part in running the league, though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
