The planned “Gigi Datome Night” will be moved to October 17th when Olimpia will face Olympiacos Piraeus in its first home game of the EuroLeague season. During the pre-game activities, Datome will have his farewell speech to his fans from Milan and the ones spread all around the Europe. The night was supposed to be held before next Thursday’s game but it was suspended and therefore the celebration had to be rescheduled accordingly.
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.
