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 0 of his Alba Berlin years (he wore the 12 in his college days at Columbia). Alex Poythress had always played with the number 22 since his college year at Kentucky. However, in Milan 22 has been wore by Devon Hall for three seasons, so Poythress removed a digit and opted for the number 2. Giordano Bortolani had the 12 in his last experiences, but here it belongs to Billy Baron; then, he added the digits and chose number 3. A similar strategy was used by Diego Flaccadori: he wore number 12 in Trento, so in Milan he reversed the numbers and switched to number 21. Ismael Kamagate wore the number 8 in Paris, but with the French national team he had already worn the number 14 and so in his Denver experiences in the NBA summer league. In Milan the number 8 is retired (Mike D’Antoni, Sandro Gamba), so he will play with number 14. Aside Mirotic, Guglielmo Caruso is the only new player to have kept the same number, 30, he had historically. The others have all kept the same jersey number as last year or the previous ones: 5 for Kevin Pangos, 7 for Stefano Tonut, 12 for Billy Baron, 17 for Pippo Ricci, 22 for Devon Hall, 31 for Shavon Shields, 42 for Kyle Hines, 77 for Johannes Voigtmann and of course the number 9 for Nicolò Melli.