“I started to love basketball very early, at 4 or 5 years of age. I was lucky because my grandfather was an official with the Bergamo team, so he brought me to games on Sundays, and then I asked him to start practicing too. Everything started with my grandfather, he was the reason why I Read More »
Nikola Mirotic will wear the number 33 in Milan as he did in Barcelona, but not in Real Madrid or even in the NBA. He will wear the number made legendary in the world basketball community by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and eventually Larry Bird. Maodo Lo stayed with the number of his Alba Berlin years (he Read More »
Number 33 is in Milan. Nikola Mirotic has a beautiful story to tell, starting with the dream of becoming a striker in football moving on to the love at first sight he had for basketball, the love that led him in world-record time to go from nothing to the Real Madrid “cantera”. Then he met Read More »
Nikola Mirotic, Alex Poythress, Maodo Lo, the new Italians coming up and many more topics were touched by Coach Ettore Messina in his customary, traditional media availability at the beginning of the season. The off-season – “I spent some beautiful months, because honestly when you are vacationing after a big win everything is more enjoyable. Read More »
