Olimpia makes its Italian league debut in a special city for its history, in a sports hall named after one of its founding fathers, the great Cesare Rubini. Olimpia enters this game fresh from the Super Cup triumph, with high morale and the awareness that there is still a lot of work to do while Read More »
Olimpia Milan is grateful to Billy Baron for the two seasons we spent together and led to two consecutive Italian league championships and wishes him all the best for this new chapter of his career. Read More »
"Josh Nebo went crazy out there. He jumped, he rebounded, he dunked and blocked shots for 45 minutes", Coach Ettore Messina said at the end of the Super Cup won in Bologna speaking of Olimpia's "Rocket Man". In the championship game he scored 20 points and over the two games he shot 70 percent from Read More »
Neno Dimitrijevic was named MVP of the Italian Super Cup. During the short tournament, he scored 30 points and averaged 3.5 assists per game, staying on the court for 59 minutes with an overall +20 plus/minus. "Dimitrijevic spent two years in Kazan. An excellent coach like Velimir Perasovic gave him confidence. Over that time, he Read More »
The Italian Supercup is coming back to Milan. Olimpia defeated Virtus Bologna 98-96 with a marvelous 10-0 run in the overtime turning a five-point deficit into a five-point lead that proved to be decisive. It was a beautiful outing, because Olimpia struggled mightly in the first half when everything went Bologna's way. Virtus made six Read More »
Olimpia led from wire to wire, the biggest margin was 21 points late in the third quarter and finally responded to a last-quarter assault launched by Reyer and won 73-62, qualifying for its ninth Supercup final. The record is 4-4 in the previous eight. More than that, Olimpia reached the tenth Italian final over the Read More »
A new season is officially starting in a very familiar place, in Bologna where the last road game was played last season. However, the arena is different. This Supercup tournament will be played in Casalecchio di Reno, a few kilometers from the regular Virtus arena, the same building where the last Olimpia’s Supercup trophy was Read More »
He wasn't the chosen one. He wasn't a particularly gifted athlete. He was not a precocious talent. Fabien Causeur was a Zinedine Zidane fan, but he played basketball and was committed to work to the death. Over the course of his career, he has demonstrated some rare qualities such as the ability to play great Read More »
Olimpia’s preseason finished on a high note, with a convincing win over Virtus Bologna in Crete. The final score was 73-62 but the biggest lead was 25 points at the end of the third period. Olimpia had a letdown in the fourth quarter and allowed Virtus to come back within 11 at the end. But Read More »
Olimpia was anxious to find out where it stands at this point of its development as a team, against a top level Final Four team like Fenerbahce. The answer was a 40-minute effort and a close game that was resolved over the last few possessions by the talented guards that Fenerbahce feature, especially Wade Baldwin. Read More »
