After a very tough battle in Belgrade, a physical, exhausting game, mentally draining, with small leads and resolved only in the end, by pushing back the last attempt at a comeback mounted by Red Star, Olimpia is back on the road in the Italian league, direction Brescia. It will be a round trip in the Read More »
Nikola Mirotic shows his big heart and big soul! He limps, grimaces, is in pain, but in the end he leaves his indelible mark in all the most important moments of the game including the final seconds in which he gets fouled and makes a free throw. Only one, and it would leave the door Read More »
A win separates Red Star and Olimpia in the EuroLeague standings, a win that separates the playoff zone from the last place available to enter the play-in tournament. The game in Belgrade is of capital relevance for both teams. Olimpia won the first game with a 15-point margin: this is another fact to take into Read More »
Armoni Brooks turns the game around, a 90-80 Olimpia win, snatching it from the hands of JP Macura who had dominated it for three quarters, one three after another, leading Treviso to unexpected leads, 15 points the largest, but still 12 in the middle of the third quarter. Olimpia went to another gear on defense Read More »
A historic opponent is coming to the Unipol Forum: the club is not the same but the legacy is and, against Benetton, Olimpia has played many memorable games including two playoff series. By beating Treviso in 2005, clinching the series on the road in Game 5, Olimpia made it to its first championship series since Read More »
Olimpia Milan's player Nikola Mirotic underwent a series of tests that have excluded bone lesions or fractures in his left hip after the contusive trauma suffered during the game against Fenerbahce. Further medical evaluations will follow in the coming days. Read More »
Freddie Gillespie, following the head trauma reported during the third quarter of the EuroLeague game played against Fenerbahce Istanbul, was taken to the hospital for tests and kept under observation as a precaution last night. The player was discharged this morning without evidence of complications but will have to observe a period of rest during Read More »
A bad night that started to unravel in the second quarter became even worse early in the third. Shavon Shields led an all-assault in the attempt to reduce the 16-point deficit accumulated late in the first half. But during that time, Nikola Mirotic and Freddie Gillespie went down in back-to-back possession. Mirotic suffered a hit Read More »
Another great EuroLeague night awaits Olimpia, who hosts second-place Fenerbahce in its third-to-last home game of the regular season, with Nicolò Melli and Devon Hall presence, adding a nostalgic component to a game that means a lot for the standings. Fenerbahce will try to get closer to one of the top four positions that would Read More »
In Bologna, playing without one of its Big Three, Shavon Shields, kept out in order to try to get him back for next Thursday's EuroLeague game against Fenerbahce, Olimpia played really well for 12 minutes, building a nine-point lead, but that was enough and finally lost 86-80. "Virtus won the game twice - Coach Ettore Read More »
