Olimpia Basket Pistoia, also known as Maltinti Pistoia after one of its historic sponsors, was an Italian professional

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team from the town of

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

. It played in

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, the Italian top-level professional league, in the 1990s. Their best result was 8th place in the 1992/93 season. It participated in the

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in the 1996/97 season. After the 1998/99 season, when they were relegated from Serie A, the team went bankrupt and is currently defunct. Pistoia is currently represented in

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by another team, Carmatic Pistoia. The team was established in 1965 and, due to sponsorship deals, was also known as Kleenex Pistoia (1988–94), Madigan Pistoia (1994-96), Rolly Pistoia (1996–97) and Mabo Pistoia (1997-99).

Notable players

Leon Douglas Leon Douglas (born August 26, 1954) is an American basketball coach and former professional player. He played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) before transitioning to an extensive professional career overseas in Europe. ...

4 seasons: '87-'91 *

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2 seasons: '87-'89 * Andrea Daviddi 2 seasons: '87-'89 * Claudio Crippa 10 seasons: '88-'98 *

Ron Rowan Ronald Lewis Rowan (born April 23, 1962) is a retired American-Irish basketball player. Rowan, a 6'5" 200 lb small forward, played collegiately at the University of Notre Dame and St. John's University. High school and college career Born ...

3 seasons: '89-'92 * Luca Silvestrin 3 seasons: '89-'92 * Charles Jones 1 season: '90'-'91 *

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3 seasons: '91-'93, '97-'98 *

Massimo Minto Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist *Massimo Ago ...

5 seasons: '92-'93, '94-'98 * Andrea Forti 3 seasons: '92-'95 *

Joe Binion Joe Binion (born March 26, 1961) is a retired American professional basketball player. College career Born in Rochester, New York, Binion played college basketball with the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Professional ...

2 seasons: '92-'94 *

Francesco Vescovi Francesco, the Italian (and original) version of the personal name "Francis", is the most common given name among males in Italy. Notable persons with that name include: People with the given name Francesco * Francesco I (disambiguation), sever ...

2 seasons: '93-'94, '97-'98 *

Tod Murphy Tod James Murphy (born December 24, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and retired professional basketball player. Since 2009, Murphy has been the head coach at Gordon College, leading the Fighting Scots to two Commonwealth Coast Confe ...

1 season: '93-'94 *

Adrian Caldwell Adrian Bernard Caldwell (born July 4, 1966) is a retired American professional basketball player, who had a career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1989 to 1997. An undersized center (2.05 m), Caldwell attended Southern Methodist ...

1 season: '93-'94 * Stephen Howard 1 season: '94-'95 *

Marty Embry Marty Embry (born March 28, 1964) is an American chef, entrepreneur and retired professional basketball player. Basketball career At 6'9, 270 lbs., he was drafted out of DePaul University in the 4th round of the 1986 NBA draft by the Utah Ja ...

1 season: '94-'95 *

Irving Thomas Irving Thomas (born January 2, 1966) is a retired American professional basketball player born in Brooklyn, New York, formerly of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A 6'8" small forward from the University of Kentucky and Florida State U ...

2 seasons: '95-'97 *

Davide Ancilotto Davide Ancilotto (Venice, 3 January 1974 – Rome, 24 August 1997) was an Italian professional basketball player. Career Beginnings Ancilotto began playing association football at a very young age in Mestre. He began to play basketball, first ex ...

1 season: '95-'96 *

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1 season: '95-'96 *

Derrick Taylor A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and ...

1 season: '96-'97 *

Thomas Burrough Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Ap ...

1 season: '96-'97 *

Matteo Soragna Matteo Soragna (born 26 December 1975) is an Italian former professional basketball player. He can switch between all perimeter positions (shooting guard, small forward and point guard). He was part of the Italian national team that won a silver ...

1 season: '96-'97 *

Vincenzo Esposito Vincenzo Esposito (; born March 1, 1969) is an Italian former professional basketball player and coach, he lastly worked for Germani Basket Brescia of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), in Italy. During his playing career, he played at the shooting g ...

1 season: '97-'98 *

Ian Lockhart Ian DeWitt Lockhart (born June 25, 1967 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian former professional basketball player. Listed at 6 ft 8 in (203 cm) and 240 lb (109 kg) he played as a small forward. College career Lockhart played college ...

1 season: '97-'98 *

Ed Stokes Edward Kobie Stokes (born September 3, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player, who played at the center position. Stokes attended the University of Arizona. During his collegiate career, he scored 984 points, grabbed 644 reb ...

1 season: '97-'98 * James Forrest 1 season: '98-'99 *

Travis Mays Travis Cortez Mays (born June 19, 1968) is an American women's basketball coach and former professional player who was the women's head coach for Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2016 until 2021. Mays was selected by the Sacramento Kings i ...

1 season: '98-'99 *

John Turner John Napier Wyndham Turner (June 7, 1929September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of Canada from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and leader of t ...

1 season: '98-'99 Defunct basketball teams in Italy Basketball teams established in 1965 {{Italy-basketball-team-stub