Olimpia Milano proclaims the “Gigi Datome Night”. It is going to take place on Thursday 12 October when EA7 Emporio Armani will face Maccabi Tel Aviv, in the home opener of the EuroLeague season. The game will be the first in Milan since Gigi Datome’s retirement. Datome has played played 273 EuroLeague games during the course of his career, with 2,278 points scored, 869 rebounds captured. He was a 43.9 percent career shooter from three-point range and a 90.8 percent free-throw shooter (fifth-best all time). He also made 357 threes, 21st-best all-time. Datome will greet his supporters and the European fans during the pre-game ceremony.
In conjunction with the event, Gigi Datome will be inducted into the Olimpia Milan Hall of Fame along with six other players. The names of the six newly inducted members, all linked to the Armani era of the club, who will figuratively accompany Datome will be revealed through a special video that will be shown during the halftime.
The Olimpia Milan Hall of Fame includes 37 personalities: managers Adolfo Bogoncelli, Gianmario Gabetti and Raffaele Morbelli; coaches Cesare Rubini, Dan Peterson, Franco Casalini and Bogdan Tanjevic; Italian players Enrico Pagani, Sergio Stefanini, Romeo Romanutti, Sandro Gamba (also nominated as a coach), Gianfranco Pieri, Sandro Riminucci, Paolo Vittori, Gabriele Vianello, Massimo Masini, Giulio Iellini, Pino Brumatti, Vittorio Ferracini, Renzo Bariviera, Franco Boselli, Vittorio Gallinari, Mike D’Antoni, Dino Meneghin, Roberto Premier, Riccardo Pittis, Flavio Portaluppi, Nando Gentile; foreign players Bill Bradley, Skip Thoren, Arthur Kenney, John Gianelli, Russ Schoene, Joe Barry Carroll, Bob McAdoo, Kenny Barlow, Rolando Blackman. All the Hall of Fame inductees are eligible only after retirement.
