Alessandrino di nascita ma romano di adozione, ex giocatore della Lazio, Raffaele Morbelli, Lello per tutti nel basket, è stato il dirigente con più titoli nella storia della pallacanestro italiana. Per 18 anni ha costruito il modello Cantù vestendo i panni del general manager (anche due Coppe dei Campioni vinte), ma nel 1986 il proprietario Read More »
The 2013/14 season is the one during which the Olimpia's project finally explodes. The team has been rebuilt over the summer with the general idea of having a warrior mentality, a lot of hunger. Luca Banchi is the new coach, coming from Grosseto, 48, a natural born winner. David Moss, Samardo Samuels, Curtis Jerrells and Read More »
Franco Boselli belongs to the much-publicized class of 1958 born players which wah historical in the Olimpia's youth system. along with his twin brother, Dino Boselli, he was a promising swimmer. Basketball convinced him to leave the pool and Olimpia made him a professional player very early during the rebuilding years. When Dan Peterson came Read More »
Nando Gentile arrived in Milano in 1994 along the group of Trieste's players moved by Bepi Stefanel with the coach Bogdan Tanjevic. He stayed in Milano four years: he was the team's captain when Olimpia won the Italian title and the Italy Cup in 1995/96 losing the Korac Cup in the final (he had an Read More »
Renzo Bariviera è veneto ma è un vero prodotto dell'Olimpia Milano dove arrivò giovanissimo, scrisse pagine di storia indelebili, se ne andò in giro per il mondo durante gli anni meno brillanti del club salvo tornare, chiamato da Dan Peterson, e vincere ancora. Come ha sempre fatto in carriera. Bariviera ha vinto 14 trofei, ma Read More »
Born in 1938 in Venezia, a small forward of 1.90, they say Vianello was one of the first Italian player to use a style years ahead his time. A perimeter guy, very athletic and a great scorer, he started to play for Reyer Venezia, his town’s team where he made his debut in the top Read More »
He played in Milano only for one year and didn’t enter in the history books like a Joe Barry Carroll or a Bill Bradley, but Rolando Blackman did extraordinary things anyway. 1995/96 Olimpia won the Italy Cup and then duplicated that success in the playoffs. In the finals, it beat 3-1 Fortitudo Bologna. That season, Read More »
Born in Split, raised in Trieste, Romeo Romanutti has been one of the many “triestini” who made Olimpia’s history. In 1949/50 he became the Italian league leading scorer playing for Lega Nazionale Trieste. The following summer he was acquired by Borletti where he stayed for eight consecutive seasons, the last two with the Simmenthal logo Read More »
A Gorizia native, great scorer, and twice the Italian league leading scorer, Paolo Vittori was a very skilled small forward more than a fighter. In the Sixties, he was a star, playing in three Olympics edition, from Rome 1960 when he was 22 to Mexico City 1968 when he was 30. Vittori left Gorizia to Read More »
He was Gianmario Gabetti and he knew his way around basketball. His family sponsored the rival team of Cantù and the passion ran through his blood although in the Olimpia’s adventure he was all alone, with no help from his great father. Gabetti has been the club’s owner in the after-Bogoncelli era and as a Read More »
