Basketball, Milan’s 31st scudetto, Trieste’s recovery. Trapani in Serie A after 32 years. We dedicate our zizzagando entirely to basketball. Milan closes the Scudetto series at 3-1, from this season the finals are at 5, no longer at 7. Bologna had the advantage of home advantage, they lost it immediately, in extra time. She barely won game 2, was one step away from success at the Forum, in game 3, while in the 4th game she slipped away quickly, even finishing at -21. At the end it returned to -7 but the comeback was honestly impossible.
It is the 31st championship for Olimpia, the 3rd in a row
The Giorgio Armani era began in 2008 and since then EA7 has won 14 trophies, i.e. six national titles (2014/15, 2015/16, 2017/18, 2021/22, 2022/23 and the latter), four Italian cups (2016, 2017, 2021 and 2022) and four Italian super cups (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020), honestly much less than it should have, considering the budget. The patron was strangely absent at the announced party, and so was unable to reward the Montenegrin Mirotic, MVP of the finals. Captain Nicolò Melli could go to Real Madrid or in any case change, in Europe, while Kyle Hines should finish his career at 37 years old. With the scudetto, like Gigi Datome a year ago.
In Serie A2, Trieste beat Cantù 3-1 and promptly recovered. She had won both the first matches of the playoff final in Brianza, wasted the first match point but then avoided the risk of the beautiful away from home. The rise comes after just one season, so Michele Ruzzier, the Giulian playmaker, and the American coach Jamion Christian are celebrating.
Our meeting in Bologna, with Captain Lodovico de Angeli, from Trieste
Trapani
The other newly promoted team is Trapani, capable of winning in Bologna in game 4, against Fortitudo, who were also without captain Pietro Aradori, after the first final.
It goes back to Serie A after 32 years, the president Valerio Antonini has also brought football back to Serie C, but it is offensive: “Treated like animals by Fortitudo Bologna”. Obviously it is not true. He celebrated by provoking the home fans, making the umbrella gesture and touching his lower parts.
He is Roman, a Lazio fan, trades agricultural products and has a turnover of 300 million euros, but now he risks being punished for his behavior in Bologna.
Our story after match 3, with the question to Andrea Diana, former coach in Brescia and Scariolo’s assistant in Bologna
Chris Horton’s story, excellent center
With sporting director Valeriano d’Orta we recall the best Trapani of all time, with Wendell Alexis in A1
The American was vice-champion of Italy, as a starter, with Livorno. Now his name is Shark.
Trapani will at least aim for the playoffs, starting from the first year. As Giuseppe Malaguti (La Nuova Venezia) reveals, but on Facebook, Antonini offers a three-year contract worth one million euros net per season to Luca Banchi, the Italian vice-champion coach with Virtus Bologna. It’s a figure from 30 years ago, when basketball really boomed.
Boston’s 18th ring, Dallas dominate, is 4-1
Since 1987, since the days of Larry Bird, they only won it in 2008, yet they remain the most successful, for the 8 championships in a row won in the ’60s. Co-owner Pagliuca, also from Atalanta.
