SAM Basket Massagno, for sponsorship reasons Spinelli Massagno, is a professional

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club based in

Massagno Massagno is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. History An Upper Paleolithic Ax made out of serpentinite, and some cremation graves from the Iron Age are the only prehistoric traces discovered in Mas ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

.Team profile at ''Eurobasket.com''
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Swiss Basketball League The Swiss Basketball League, also known as SB League or SBL, is the top-tier professional club basketball league in Switzerland. It is organized by Swiss Basketball. The winners of the SBL are crowned Swiss national basketball champions. Current ...

, the highest professional division in Switzerland. The team plays its home games at the palestra di Nosedo (SEM Nosedo), which has a capacity of 1,000 people.

Honours

SBL Cup The SBL Cup is the national professional league cup competition that is organised by the Swiss Basketball League (SBL), which is the top-tier level basketball division in Switzerland. The competition was introduced in 2004, and is the second cup c ...

*Runners-up (2): 2019, 2021

Notable players

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References

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