Brandon Davies, born in Philadelphia, on July 25, 1991, 2.08 mt tall, came to Milano during the summer of 2022, coming from FC Barcelona where he spent the previous three seasons.
2022/23 SEASON - After his 15-point, 7-assist game in Belgrade against Red Star, he was named EuroLeague Player of the Round for the sixth time. Vs Monaco, he surpassed the 2.000 points scored for his career.
HIS CAREER - Brandon Davies is born in Philadelphia, but was raised in Provo, Utah, where he attended the Provo High School, leading them to the state championship, before moving on to attend Brigham Young University. At BYU he’s appeared in 135 games, averaging 12.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game. As a senior, he averaged 17.7 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. He’s been named to the All-West Coast Conference first team both in 2011 and 2013. He was named Portsmouth predraft camp MVP and has played 78 NBA games among the Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia and Brooklyn. During his European career, he has played in Chalon, France (9.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game), in Varese (13.3 and 6.5), Monaco (10.3 and 5.1). He arrived to the EuroLeague during the 2017/18 season when he averaged 9.3 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, numbers that he improved in his second season (14.2 and 5.5) when he was named to the All-EuroLeague first team and helped his team clinch a Final Four berth. From Kaunas, he moved to Barcelona (9.6 points and 3.9 rebounds per game in his first season, 12.0 and 4.5 in the second season when he was named to the All-EuroLeague second team). In Barcelona, he’s won twice the King’s Cup and once the Spanish league, while reaching twice the EuroLeague Final Four.
NOTES - During his NBA career, he has scored 286 points and has grabbed 192 rebounds. In Chalon, he has won the French Leaders Cup, in Lithuania he has won two National league championships and two National Cups. He has been named three times EuroLeague player of the Round. He has also played for the Ugandan National Team.U
Deshaun Thomas came to Olimpia during the summer of 2022 coming from Bayern Munich. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on August 27, 1991, he is a 2.01 mt tall forward.
HIS CAREER - Deshaun Thomas comes from Fort Wayne in Indiana where he attended the Bishop Luers High School leading it to three consecutive Indiana State titles. From 2010 to 2013, he played for Ohio State. In his third season spent with the Buckeyes he averaged 19.8 points per game with 5.9 rebounds. In 2012 he was named to the second All-Big Ten team and after the following season ha was included to the first team. In 2013, after being the number 58 selection, by the San Antonio Spurs, in the NBA draft, he came to Europe to play for Nanterre in France (12.2 points per game in the French league). Subsequently, he was at Barcelona (7.1 points per game in the EuroLeague), the Austin Spurs, played for Efes (7.3 points per game), Maccabi (11.5 points per game in the EuroLeague), Panathinaikos (10.5 points per game during his first year, 13.9 with 4.4 rebounds in the second) and Bayern Munich (9.9 during the 2021/22 season). In between he also had a one-year experience in Tokyo in the Japanese league. He's won the Greek championship and the Greek Cup in 2019 with Panathinaikos. He's won the Israeli championship in 2018 with Maccabi. He's won the French Cup with Nanterre. In the EuroLeague he has played 197 games with a career average of 9.7 points per game.
Tim Luwawu-Cabarrot, guard-forward, 2.01 mt tall, born in Cannes, on May 9th, 1995, came to Milan during the month of November, 2022.
HIS CAREER - Tim Luwawu-Cabarrot, of Congolese origins, began playing in the youth teams of Antibes. In 2014 he made his official debut with the first team and in his rookie season he averaged 7.1 points per game. The following season he moved to Serbia to Mega Leks where over 28 Adriatic League games he averaged 14.6 points and 4.8 rebounds per game. At the end of that season, in 2016, he declared for the NBA draft and was selected in the first round by the Philadelphia 76ers, at number 24. He spent two years in Philadelphia then was traded to Oklahoma City and then to Chicago. He then spent two years in Brooklyn and one in Atlanta. During the 2019/20 season, he averaged 7.8 points per game on 38.1 percent shooting from three-point range. In all, he played 328 NBA games with 60 starts and 16.0 minutes played per game. Luwawu-Cabarrot won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics scoring 9.0 points per game on 37.5 percent on three-point shooting in the six games of the Olympic tournament. He also won the silver at the 2022 European Championships.
NOTES – Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 11 points in the Tokyo Olympic gold-medal game against the United States. He scored 13 points against Italy in the quarterfinals of the 2022 European Championship, in Berlin.
Naz Mitrou-Long, born in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada, on August 2, 1993, 1.90 mt tall, came to Milano from Brescia, during the summer of 2022.
HIS CAREER - Naz Mitrou-Long started to play the game at the St. Martin High School in Mississauga. He was one of the best Canadian prospects and moved to the U.S. in 2010 to attend the Findlay Prep High School in Las Vegas leading the team to a 28-4 record. During the following season, he played for Montrose Christian Academy in Rockville, Maryland. In 2012 he moved to Iowa State where he played 131 games, 83 of them as a starter. During the2015/16 season, he appeared in only eight games because of an injury and obtained one more season on college eligibility. In 2016/17, he averaged 15.1 points per game, with 4.6 rebounds. For three years he was a member of the Utah Jazz organization, then moved to the Indiana Pacers. Overall, he played 20 NBA games. He moved to Italy in 2021 and signed for Brescia. Over 29 Italian league games, he averaged 16.5 points, 4.7 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game, shooting 36.4 percent from three-point range. During the playoffs, he was the best scorer (24.4 points per game) and led the league in assists (7.2).
NOTES - Mitrou-Long’s mom is a Greek from Sparta, who moved to Canada at an early age, his dad Jersey Long is from and was a professional kickboxer. He has three brothers, including Elijah Mitrou-Long, a University of Texas former player and eventually a pro in Europe.
Kevin Pangos, a Holland Landing, Ontario, Canada, native, born on September 2, 1993, 1.88 mt. tall, formerly with the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, came to Milan during the summer of 2022.
2022/23 SEASON - He cleared the 1.500-point scored barrier in the EuroLeague during the home game against Alba.
HIS CAREER - Kevin Pangos, a Canadian, was raised in Ontario, slightly north of Toronto, gaining exposure while playing for the Canadian Junior National Teams. With the Under 16 team, he won the bronze medal at the Americas Championship in 2009 then again at the Under 17 World Championship in Hamburg, Germany, in 2010. In 2011, he played in the Under 19 World Championship again. In the fall of 2011, he moved to the United States to enroll at Gonzaga, in Spokane, Was., where he stayed four years. He has played 142 games, starting 141 times, the only exception being his career debut. Overall, he averaged 12.8 points and 3.8 assists per game, while shooting 41.5 percent from three-point range. He was West Coast Conference’s newcomer of the year in 2012, a All-WCC first-team member in each of his four seasons. In 2015 he was also player of the year and was named to the All-America third team. Undrafted in 2015, he moved to Europe and signed for Gran Canaria. He was named to the All-Eurocup second team (11.9 points, 4.8 assists per game and 51.2 percent shooting from three), after leading his team to the semifinals stage. In 2016, he moved to Zalgiris Kaunas, making his EuroLeague’s debut. After averaging 8.7 points and 3.2 assists per game (45.7 percent shooting from three) as a rookie, he made a jump in his second season, averaging 12.7 points and 5.9 assists per game during the 2017/18 season when Zalgiris reached the Final Four and he was named to the All-EuroLeague second team. In 2018, he was signed by FC Barcelona. He had 7.0 points and 3.2 assists per game. He remained two years, but during his second season -however cut short – he could only play three Spanish league games and no EuroLeague games at all, because of a foot injury. In 2020, he moved to Zenit Saint Petersburg and averaged 13.5 points and 6.7 assists per game while being named to the All-EuroLeague first team. In 2021, he made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He appeared in 29 games.
NOTES – Kevin Pangos has played the 2019 World Championships in China with Canada. His father, Bill Pangos, has been women’s coach at the York University in Canada for 29 seasons. At Gonzaga, he set the school record for three-pointers, 322, and is fifth for games played and points scored. He had a nine-three outing in his second game at Gonzaga, scoring 33 points-
Stefano Tonut, born in Cantù, on November 7, 1993, 1.94 mt tall, came to Milano during the summer of 2022 after seven seasons spent with Reyer Venezia.
HIS CAREER - Stefano Tonut is born in Cantù, but he was raised in Trieste and started his basketball journey by playing for the Azzurra local team. Eventually, he spent one year in Monfalcone and then moved to Pallacanestro Trieste where he remained until 2015 (he averaged 19.2 points per game in his last second division season) when he was signed by Venezia. He stayed there for the following seven season, helping his team win two Italian league championships, in 2017 and 2019, the 2020 Italian Cup, the 2017 Fiba Europe Cup. In 2021 he was named Italian league MVP (he averaged 16.2 points, 4.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game, shooting 39.8 percent from three-point range). During his last season in Venezia, he averaged 14.0 points per game on top of 3.1 rebounds. He had a 51-game experience in the Eurocup with career averages of 7.9 points per game. Over the previous season, he has scored 169 points, 10.1 per game.
NOTES - His father Alberto Tonut won the European championship in 1983 with the Italian National team and played several seasons in the Italian league, with Trieste, Livorno and Cantù. In 2013, Stefano was a member of the Italian gold medal Under 20 winning team at the European championship, in Estonia. He scored 10 points in the championship game. In 2021, he has played in the Tokyo Olympics with the Italian National Team. Overall, he has played 29 games with the National team with 190 points scored, including the 15 that he had in the Preolympic Tournament final in Belgrade, against Serbia. He also scored 18 points over Germany at the Olympics.
Nicolò Melli came back to Olimpia Milan during the summer of 2021, from te NBA's Dalla Mavericks. Born in Reggio Emilia, on January 26, 1991, 2.05 mt tall, power forward, he was a member of Olimpia from the 2010/11 season to the 2014/15.
2022/23 SEASON - He led the team to the win in Munich and with 29 of personal rating he was named the EuroLeague MVP of the round. During the home game vs Partizan Belgrade he became the all-time Olimpia's leading rebounder in the competition. In Madrid, he surpassed the 2.000 points barrier and grabbed his 1000th defensive rebound. He grabbed his 1.000th rebound in the Italian league too.
2021/22 SEASON - In Napoli, he grabbed his 700th rebound for Olimpia in the Italian League. In Varese, he surpassed the 1.000 points scored in the Italian league. During the home win over Brescia, he set his career-high with 14 rebounds. He made his 200th Italian league apperance with Olimpia during the home win vs Virtus Bologna. In Trento, he set his new career-high for points scored in a game with 27. Ha was named to the All-Serie A first team. Member of the Italian Cup winning team. He averaged 6.7 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, had a 14-point, 9-rebound effort in the championship game against Derthona. He helped the team win the Italian league championship, averaging 9.7 points and 5.3 rebounds pe rgame during the playoffs, he also a 22-point effort in Game 3 of the championbships series. Vs CSKA Moscow, he exceeded 400 points scored for Olimpia in the EuroLeague and earned a career-high 11 free throws. He grabbed his 1.000th career rebound vs Villeurbanne and had a career-high of six steals during the win over Fenerbahce in Istanbul. He became the third Olimpia player to appear in 100 EuroLeague games during the home win over Alba.
HIS CAREER - Nicolò Melli began playing basketball in his native Reggio Emilia, debuting in Serie A with the same team and remaining there until the 2009/10 season. In the summer of 2010, he moved to Olimpia Milan: the first season was partly spent in Pesaro on loan. He returned to Milan in 2011 and remained there until 2015. He won the 2014 championship with Olimpia. During the summer of 2015, he moved to Bamberg and after two years went to Fenerbahce. He won the German title twice and once the Turkish championship, he won the national cup with both Bamberg and Fenerbahce. He played the EuroLeague Final Four in 2018 and 2019: in the first one, he reached the final game, and he scored a team-high 28 points against Real Madrid in Belgrade. During the summer of 2019, he joined the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans and was traded eventually to the Dallas Mavericks during the 2020/21 season. In two years, he has played 105 NBA games with 529 points scored
NOTES - Melli won the Under 20 silver medal at the 2011 European Championships and played four editions of the European Championships. His mom Julie was a silver medalist with the US volleyball national team at the 1984 Olympics. He was on the Italian National team at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, and averaged 7.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. He was named Best Italian Player of 2022 Italian Cup.
Billy Baron, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 11, 1990, 1.88 mt tall, came to Milano during the 2022 summer coming from Zenit St. Petersburg.
2022/23 SEASON - He made the go-ahead three-pointer in Munich that proved to be decisive.
HIS CAREER - Billy Baron is the son of Jim Baron, a coach with a 30-year career at collegiate level. Billy has played at Bishop Hendricken High School, Rhode Island, and eventually for the Worcester Academy, Massachusetts. In 2010, he attended Virginia University but after one season he decided to move and play for his dad at Rhode Island. Following one year at URI, he transferred with his dad at Canisius, Buffalo, where he stayed two years and was named to the All-Metro Atlantic Conference first team. In 2014 he was also Player of the Year in the same conference, after averaging 24.1 points, 5.3 assists (first overall) and 4.9 rebounds per game. He shot 42.1 percent from three and 88.3 percent from the line. In 2014, he started his pro career at Vilnius (6.1 points per game, 47.5 percent shooting from three in the Eurocup), then signed for Charleroi where he played along his brother Jimmy (he averaged 20.7 points per game, with 45.9 percent three-point shooting in Eurocup), and finally for Murcia in Spain (13.0 points per game in the Eurocup) and Eskisehir in Turkey. In 2018, he went to Red Star Belgrade, and helped the team win the Adriatic Supercup and in 2019 the Adriatic League championship while being named MVP of the playoffs. During the 2018/19 Eurocup, he averaged 12.9 points per game and shot 49.4 percent from three. In Belgrade, he made his EuroLeague debut for the 2019/20 and averaged 11.6 points per game, shooting 40.3 percent from three. He moved to St. Petersburg in 2020: he averaged 9.6 points per game (44.8 percent three-point shooting) over his first season; 11.2 points per game and 35.7 percent three-point shooting during the second. During the 2021/22 season, he finished the VTB season averaging 14.6 points per game, while hitting 46.5 percent of his three-point shots and helping Zenit to win its first league championship.
NOTES - He was part of the 2017 America’s Cup USA winning team in Cordoba, where it defeated Argentina in the championship game.
Shabazz Napier, a 1.83 mt tall point guard, born on July 14, 1991, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, was signed by Olimpia Milan during the month of January, 2023, coming from the Capitanes de Ciudad de Mexico of the NBA-owned G-League.
HIS CAREER – Shabazz Napier, of Puerto Rican origins from his mother’s side, grew up in Boston. He attended the Charlestown High School and moved for last two years of high school to the Lawrence Academy in Groton where he won the 2010 New England championship after finishing the season undefeated, 29-0. Napier was named MVP of the competition. In 2010, he transferred to the University of Connecticut where in his freshman year he averaged 7.8 points per game, was included in the Big East’s All-Rookie team and helped capture both the conference title and the NCAA championship. During his sophomore year, he averaged 13.8 points and 5.8 assists per game. In his third year with the Huskies, he averaged 17.6 points per game with 4.6 assists and 2.0 steals. In his fourth year, he was named AAC Player of the Year, won the “Bob Cousy” award for being the college basketball’s best point guard, and led Connecticut to his second NCAA championship, this time as the Final Four MVP winner. At the end of the year, he had 18.0 points per game, 4.9 assists and 5.9 rebounds. In 2014, he was selected by Miami in the first round of the NBA draft, number 24. After a season with the Heat, he played one season in Orlando, two in Portland, one in Brooklyn and another one in Minnesota and Washington. In 2021, he signed for Zenit St. Petersburg, but an injury kept him from playing in the EuroLeague. Overall, he played 345 NBA games, with 56 starts, 2,433 points scored and 856 career assists. In 2019/20 he averaged 10.3 points per game with 4.7 assists.
NOTES – Shabazz Napier is first in Connecticut history for games played, 143, second for three-pointers made, 260, and steals, 251, and fourth for points scored, 1,959. He has an NBA career-high of 32 points, twice, once in Portland (against San Antonio) and once in Brooklyn (vs Milwaukee). He also had a triple-double game in Minnesota against Oklahoma City (10 points, 13 assists, 10 rebounds).
Giampaolo Ricci, born in Rome on 27 September 1991, 2.02 mt tall, power forward, came from Virtus Bologna during the summer of 2021.
2021/22 SEASON - Member of the Italian Cup winning team, averaging 5.7 points per game. He helped the team win the Italian championship, averaging 3.5 points and 3.1 rebounds per game during the playoffs.
HIS CAREER - Giampaolo Ricci grew up in Chieti where he started playing basketball in the Magic Chieti club before moving to Pallacanestro Chieti and finally to Stella Azzurra Roma in 2007, remaining there until 2011. From 2011 to 2015, he played in A2 in Casalpusterlengo, then he spent one year in Verona and another one in Tortona where he averaged 10.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, earning the call from Cremona where he remained two more years, and helped the team win Italian Cup in 2019 (he averaged 9.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game). During the summer of 2019, he moved to Virtus Bologna where he remained for another two years, winning the Italian title in 2021. During the 2019/20 season, he averaged 9.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game; in 2020/21, he averaged 6.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. During the last season’s Eurocup, he started in 20 out of 21 games, averaging 6.4 points and 3.8 rebounds.
NOTES - Ricci made his National Team debut on November 29, 2018, in Brescia, in an Italy win over Lithuania. He was on the Italian National Team at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, where he averaged 4.3 points and 2.7 rebounds per game. Between 2021 and 2022 he helped his teams win 17 consecutive playoffs' games.
Paul Biligha, a 2.00 mt center, from Perugia, where he was born on May, 31, 1990, came to Milan during the month of July, 2019, from Venice.
2021/22 SEASON - Member of the Italian Cup winning team. He helped the team win the Italian league championship. He averaged 3.6 points per game during the playoffs.
2020/21 SEASON - He helped Olimpia win the Supercup. He was a member of 2021 Italian Cup winning team. He helped the team clinch the EuroLeague Final Four.
2019/20 SEASON - He had a four-block game in Tel Aviv that was the second highest single-game total for an Olimpia player. Only Gani Lawal had more with five in 2014 in Athens, vs Olympiacos.
HIS CAREER - Paul Biligha started to play in Cameroon, where he lived from age eight to 16, and eventually in Florence, when his family returned in Italy. Then he was acquired by the UCC Casalpusterlengo and later he also played in Verolanuova, Crema, Pavia. In 2012, he moved to Avellino where he played two seasons in Serie A before moving to Ferentino in A2. From 2015 to 2017 he was in Cremona for two seasons (in the second he averaged 11.0 points and 5.2 rebounds per game) and then another two in Venice, winning the Fiba Europe Cup in 2018 and the Italian championship in 2019. He also played a European Under 20 Championship with the Italian national team in 2010 and a European Championship in 2017, in Israel and Turkey
NOTES – Biligha’s parents are form Cameroon. During the 2017 European Championships he was coached by Ettore Messina. He made his National Team debut on July, 30, 2017 in Trento against Netherlands.
Devon Hall signed for Olimpia during the summer of 2021, coming from Brose Bamberg, in Germany. He is a 1.96 mt tall guard.
2022/23 SEASON - Against Brindisi, at home, he made the walk-off three to win the game at the buzzer.
2021/22 SEASON - Member of the Italian Cup winning team, averaging 10.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game, going 11-for-12 from the line. He helped the team win the Italian league championship. During the playoffs, he averaged 8.3 points and 2.9 assists per game.
HIS CAREER - Devon Hall grew up in Virginia Beach, attended Cape Henry Collegiate High School and later spent four years at Virginia University where he improved dramatically in his senior year when he averaged 11.9 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, and shot 44.3 percent from three-point range for a team ranked at number 1 nationally. On January 14, 2018, he scored a career-high 25 points against North Carolina State. In 2018, he was named to the All-ACC second team. After averaging 17.3 points per game, at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, he was selected with the number 53 of the NBA draft by the Oklahoma City Thunder. His rookie season was spent in Australia with the Cairns Taipans. During the 2019/20 season he played at Oklahoma City with a two-way contract that included two stints with the Oklahoma City Blue. In 2020/21 he played in Bamberg. He finished his BCL campaign averaging 12.4 points per game, in the Germany league he averaged 14.1 points per game and went 39.9 percent from three-point range. He also averaged 3.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game.
Tommaso Baldasso moved to Olimpia during the month of November, 2021, coming from Fortitudo Bologna. He is a point-guard of 1.92 mt, born in Turin, on January, 29, 1998.
2021/22 SEASON - Member of the Italian Cup winning team, he helped the team win the Italian league championships, averaging 4.3 points per game during the playoffs.
HIS CAREER – Tommaso Baldasso started playing in the youth academy of Auxilium Torino and PMS Moncalieri. In 2016, he moved to Virtus Roma where in 2019 he contributed to the promotion of the team to the top Italian League. During the 2019/20 season, he played in Rome in Serie A (7.1 points and 3.0 rebounds per game) and was there at the beginning of the following season. Then, he moved to Fortitudo Bologna and finished the season averaging 8.0 points and 2.9 rebounds per game. During the current season, he was scoring 5.8 points per game while shooting 38.5 percent from three.
NOTES – Baldasso made his debut with the Italian National Team on November 30, 2020 in Tallinn, in a win over Russia.
Shavon Shields, born in Overland Park, Kansas, on June 5, 1994, 2.01 mt. tall, small forward and guard, came to Milan in the month of July, 2020, from Kirolbet Baskonia.
2022/23 SEASON - He became the Olimpia all-time third-best scorer in the EuroLeague during the game in Belgrade, surpassing Antonello Riva and Alessandro Gentile.
2021/22 SEASON - He clared the 800 points scored for Olimpia in the EuroLeague. Member of the Italian Cup winning team. He was named to the All-EuroLeague second team for the seconda straight season. He helped the team win the Italian league championship. During the playoffs, he averaged 14.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, shooting with 42.4 percent from three. He was named the champioship series' MVP.
2020/21 SEASON - He helped Olimpia win the Supercup by averaging 10.3 points per game, he then hemped the team win the Italian Cup and averaged 9.0 points per game. In Munich, EuroLeague, made the winning three-pointer with nine seconds left in the overtime. He set his new career-high of 34 points when Olimpia defeated Bayern in Game 5 of the EuroLeague playoffs. He also had 41 of index rating, another personal best, like the 11 free throws made in that game. He was named the EuroLeague MVP of the week. In the Italian league, ha set his personal best of points (35), three-pointers (seven) and rating (37) in a win over Virtus Bologna. Ha was named to the All-EuroLeague second team, helped the team clinch a Final Four berth while averaging 16.4 points per game during the playoffs.
HIS CAREER – Raised in Olathe, Kansas, where he attended the Northwest High School, Shields has been the Sunflower conference MVP as a senior at the end of a career in which he finished as the first in school history for points, rebounds and steals. In 2012, he landed at the University of Nebraska, where he stayed four years and finished as the all-time fifth scorer. In 2015/16, he averaged 16.8 points per game and was selected in the All-Big Ten Conference second team. In 2016/17, he played for the Frankfurt Skyliners, before moving to Trento for the playoffs. He played two seasons in Trento, playing the Italian league finals twice. In 2017/18, he averaged 14.3 points per game in Italy. In 2018 he signed for Vitoria, where he made his EuroLeague debut. He averaged 9.6 points per game in 59 appearances. He won the 2020 Spanish championship.
NOTES – Shields ia a Danish National Team member, because of his mother origin. His father, Will Shields, has been a 12-time Pro Bowl NFL selection and is a Hall of Famer after a 14-year pro career with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Davide Alviti is a 2.00 mt tall small forward, born in Alatri in 1996, who came to Olimpia Milan during the summer of 2021 coming from Trieste.
2021/22 SEASON - Member of the Italian Cup and Italian league championship winning team.
HIS CAREER - Davide Alviti began playing the game in Alatri, in the province of Frosinone, then he was acquired in 2011 by Eurobasket Roma, which he remained tied to until 2015. In the meantime, he also made his Serie A debut with Virtus Roma during the 2013/14 season. In 2015 he moved to Mantova and for four years he played at the A2 level: after Mantova, he moved to Tortona, Imola and Treviso with which he won the championship and the Italian Cup for the category at the end of the 2018/19 season. In 2019/20, he returned to Serie A in Treviso and in 2020 the move to Trieste. This past season, he averaged 10.5 points per game, while shooting 44.2 percent from three, and 4.6 rebounds per game.
NOTES - Alviti made his National Team debut in the national team on November 30, 2020, in Tallinn, in an Italy win over Russia.
Kyle Hines, 1.98, from Sicklerville, where he was born on September 2, 1986, came to Olimpia in the summer of 2020 from CSKA Moscow.
2022/23 SEASON - The EuroLeague home game Vs Panathinaikos marked his 100th appearences for Olimpia in the competition, the fourth ever to reach that milestone. He became also the team all-time leader for two-point field goals made. During the home game Vs Olympiacos he made the 300th block of his career, the third ever to reach the milestone.
2021/22 SEASON - He became the fifth player ever to grab over 1.500 rebounds during his EuroLeague career during the home win over Red Star. During the road game in Kaunas, he became the All-time EuroLeague leading offensive rebounder. During the home win over Bayern, he became the 11th player to score at least 3.000 points in the EuroLeague. He also became the all-time leader for two-point field goals made. Member of the Italian Cup winning team, averaging 7.0 points and tournament-leading 8.3 rebounds per game. He shot 75.0 percent from the field, too. He helped the team win the Italian league championship and averaged 7.4 points, 5.0 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game during the playoffs. He has been named defensive player of the year in the EuroLeague for the third time.
2020/21 SEASON - He helped the team win the Supercup, averaging 9.9 points per game and 4.0 rebounds. He also converted 60.5 percent of his two-pointers. He won the Italian Cup and averaged 10.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game during the Final Eight. He helped the team clinch a Final Four berth. During the game in Barcelona, he scored his 2-pointer number 1.000 in his EuroLeague career. In Berlin, he played his EuroLeague game number 300, the first American player to reach that plateau and the seventh overall. In Kaunas, he became the second-best all-time shot-blocker. He was named Defensive Player of the Year in the Italian league.
HIS CAREER – Kyle Hines played one year at the Camden Catholic High School in New Jersey and then for the next three years at the Timber Creek Regional High School. In his senior year, he was named in the second All-State team and became the school’s all-time leading scorer. In 2004 he landed at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where in 2005 he was named Southern Conference’s freshman of the year and as a junior he was voted Southern Conference Player of the Year (he averaged 20.9 points, 9.0 rebounds per game). As a senior he averaged 19.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. During his last three college years, he was always named on the All-Southern 1st team. His professional career began in Italy in Veroli where he won the Legadue Italian Cup for two consecutive seasons (16.9 points and 8.6 rebounds on average during the first year, 18.5 points and 8.1 rebounds during the second). In 2010, he moved to Bamberg where he won the Super Cup, the German Cup, the league championship and was the playoff MVP (he averaged 12.9 points and 5.4 rebounds in his EuroLeague rookie season). In 2011 he arrived at Olympiacos Piraeus where in two years he won the EuroLeague title twice and the Greek championship in 2012. During the first EuroLeague run he averaged 9.9 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, during the second he had 9.4 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. In 2013 he signed for CSKA Moscow where he won the EuroLeague two more times, in 2016 and 2019, in addition to winning six VTB League championships. In 2016 (when he scored 10.9 points per game) and in 2018 he was named Defender of the year in the EuroLeague. During the 2019/20 season, he had 8.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
NOTES – During his college career, he had a streak of 37 consecutive games with at least one blocked shot. Among his teammates he had Ricky Hickman (he played for Olimpia in the 2016/17 season). He is one of six NCAA players in history to have had at least 2.000 points, 1.000 rebounds and 300 blocked shots for their careers. He was named on the All-EuroLeague team of the last decade. He is the first American in the list of appearances in the EuroLeague, has a nine-year streak of Final Four appearances, from 2012 to 2021. He is the EuroLeague all-time best offensive rebounder and first for two-pointers made, he is also third overall in rebounds, second for blocked shots.
Luigi Datome came to Milan in the summer of 2020 coming from Fenerbhace Istanbul. He's a 2.03 mt tall forward, born in Montebelluna.
2021/22 SEASON - He appeared in his 250th EuroLeague game in Istanbul vs Fenerbahce. During the home game vs Olympiacos, he surpassed Gianluca Basile and became the Italian all-time leading scorer for the competition. Member of the Italian Cup winning team, averaging 7.7 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, converting 38.5 percent of his three-point attempts. He helped the team winning the Italian title, averaging 10.2 points per game during the playoffs, while shooting 38.9 percent from three and 95.5 percent from the line.
2020/21 SEASON - He helped the team win the Supercup, by scoring 17 points in the championship game over Virtus Bologna. He led the team the Italian Cup championship, securing the MVP award in the process. He helped the team return to the EuroLeague Final Four. Against Olympiacos, he reached 300 three-pointers made for his EuroLeague career. During the home game vs Fenerbahce, he surpassed 2.000 points scored for his career.
HIS CAREER – Born in Montebelluna, but raised in Olbia, where he played on the team owned by his father Sergio, Santa Croce, Luigi Datome won a youth Italian championship with that same team and in 2003 moved to Siena, where he remained until 2006 while debuting in the Italian league and the EuroLeague. He eventually played for Scafati from 2006 to 2008 and in Rome from 2008 to 2013. In the 2012/13 season he averaged 16.9 points per game, grabbed 5.8 rebounds per outing and was named the league’s MVP. In the summer of 2013, he joined the NBA, signing for the Detroit Pistons. After 36 games in two years, he was traded to the Boston Celtics. In Boston, he played 18 regular season games and three playoff games. In the summer of 2015, he returned to Europe to play for Fenerbahce. In Istanbul he played four Final Fours in four years, was named in the second All-EuroLeague team in 2016 and won the European title in 2017 (he had 11 points and six rebounds in the championship game won against Olympiacos). He has also won the Turkish title three times, the Turkish Cup three times. He was the playoffs’ MVP in Turkey in 2016. He's been named MVP of the Turkish Cup in 2019 and 2020, MVP of the Presidential Cup in 2017. He played with the Italian national team in the 2007, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 European Championships, and in the 2019 World Cup.
NOTES – He won the bronze medal at the Under 18 European Championships in 2005 and again at the Under 20 championships with the Italian national team. He won the Italian championship in 2004 with Siena. He also won the 2016 President Cup with Fenerbahce. Datome played 175 official games with the Italian national team, and scored 1.579 points.
Johannes Voigtmann, born in Cologne, Germany, on September 30, 1992, 2.11 mt. tall, came to Milano from CSKA Moscow during the summer of 2022.
HIS CAREER - Johannes Voigtmann made his professional debut with the Jena basketball team. In 2012, he moved to the Skyliners in Frankfurt and stayed there until 2016 (the same season, they won the FIBA Europe Cup) when he landed in Spain, at Baskonia, where he also made his debut at the EuroLeague level. In Vitoria, he stayed three seasons. Before the 2019/20 season, he moved to CSKA Moscow for three more seasons, winning the VTB League in 2021 and reaching the EuroLeague Final Four at the end of the same season. In the EuroLeague, he has 185 career appearances averaging 8.5 points per game, shooting 62.2 percent from two, 40.4 percent from three and 5.3 rebounds per game. During the last season in Moscow, he averaged 8.4 points per game with 4.0 rebounds, 67.4 percent from two, 85.0 percent from the line and 40.0 percent from three-point range.
NOTES - Voigtmann played for the German national team at the 2017 European Championships, at the 2019 World Cup and at the 2021 Olympics. At the 2022 European Championships, he helped the team win the bronze medal. In 2015, he was voted the best young player and most improved player in the German league.