After four road games over the first five games (2-2), Olimpia hosts Valencia at the Unipol Forum. In a league where only one team has lost every game and no team has won them all, where the standings are essentially a colossal traffic congestion, every game has potentially significant impact. Olimpia won in Kaunas with Read More »
Olimpia Milano and Vlatko Cancar have mutually agreed to terminate his current contract. Olimpia wishes to thank Cancar for his exemplary behavior, professionalism, and commitment during these weeks spent together, hoping to see him back on the court as soon as possible, fully recovered. Read More »
Olimpia Milano has reached an agreement with Nate Sestina, a 2.06mt power forward, born in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, on May 12, 1997, coming from Valencia Basket. NATE SESTINA - "I am really excited to join such a historic club, with a rich history of winning. It’s an honor for me to represent this jersey. I Read More »
Playing on short rest, after a seven-day trip, in its fourth road game during the same stint, Olimpia achieved a come from behind win 76-72 in Sassari. Dinamo led by as many as nine points early in the first period but again by seven in the fourth. When Pippo Ricci responded right away with a Read More »
It will never be a game like any other in Sassari. Since Dinamo was promoted to the top Italian league in 2010, the paths of these two teams have crossed countless times, often with high stakes: six times in the playoffs, twice in an Italian Cup final, once in a Supercup final. Much of the Read More »
It was a great answer, a terrific comeback that generated a 89-78 triumph in Kaunas. Olimpia responded with heart and soul to the disappointing Munich loss, to missing three starters - Lorenzo Brown was a late scratch because of a calf injury - and to going down by 16 points in the middle of the Read More »
As Bryant Dunston uses to say there's no time to reflect too much after a EuroLeague game, win or lose, because another one is coming up right away. With this mindset, Olimpia left Munich around lunchtime to fly to Lithuania and practice in Kaunas by dinnertime ahead of the game against Zalgiris, who also suffered Read More »
A terrible shooting night (40.0% on twos, 3 of 19 from three-point range, all of them in the first) left Olimpia with no way out in Munich. The final score was 64-53. After a somewhat promising first half, which ended with a five-point lead, with momentum in its favor, a seven-point advantage at the start Read More »
Olimpia left today for a week-long trip that includes two EuroLeague road games, in Munich and Kaunas, and an Italian league game in Sassari. In the international competition, these are the third and fourth road games over the first five rounds. Olimpia traveled to Germany to play against a Bayern team with which it has Read More »
Olimpia dominated the game in Varese leading from the beginning and cruising to a comfortable 94-61 win. Olimpia led by 18 points at the half, getting away after a couple of consecutive threes made by Lorenzo Brown (13 points and six assists) followed by another one scored by Devin Booker, who finished with seven points Read More »
