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*** ITALIAN MEN BASKETBALL MAIN PAGE ***
| Lottomatica | 10/5/2008 | Basket NA |
| Premiata | 10/5/2008 | Virtus |
| Pall.Cantu | 10/5/2008 | Upea |
| Upim | 10/5/2008 | Solsonica |
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| | Benetton | 10/5/2008 | Montepaschi |
| Banca Tercas | 10/5/2008 | Armani |
| Snaidero | 10/5/2008 | Air AV |
| Carife | 10/5/2008 | Scavolini |
| Eldo | 10/5/2008 | Angelico |
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 | Benetton Treviso sign Bobby Dixon | |
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| |  | Benetton Treviso strengthened their roster with addition of 25-year old American guard Bobby Dixon (178-G-83, college: Troy). Dixon started this season at SK Cherkasy Monkeys in Ukrainian League. Last season he played for Polpak Swiecie in Poland, where he was it top 5 best scorers with 16.6ppg and was the best passer in the league with 5.1apg. He helped his team to make it to the league semifinals, the biggest achievement in club's hisrtory. Two years ago he played one season in France. It is his third year in professional basketball. |
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| Serie A finally at the start. Eurobasket ranking | |
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| | | At last, the teams will go on the court for official games, and Eurobasket.com tries to publsh its 2008-09 Serie A preseason ranking. We would divide the 16 teams remained in the race in four groups as we did for Lega 2. The 'Five Stars Teams' however, are only 2: Siena and Roma. We expect Siena to top the table all season long with only Roma able to challenge its supremacy. The 'Four Stars Teams' are Virtus Bologna, Milano, Fortitudo Bologna, Treviso and Avellino. These teams should always stay in the first half of the table, battling for the first seats, and some of them could worry Siena and Roma at the top. Also, it would be really surprisiing if some of them won't qualify for the playoffs, but we don' see them able to go tille the end, winning the title. The 'Three Stars Teams' are Pesaro, Cantu, Caserta and Ferrara. They should not be involved in the battle to avoid relegation and one of them willl fill the last spot in the playoff grid. Our preference in this goes to Pesaro, with Cantu immediately behind. The 'Two Stars Teams' are all the remaining ones: Teramo, Udine, Biella, Montegranaro and Rieti. We expect them battling for avoid the relegation to Lega 2 all season long, none of them seem able to advance to the playoffs, and after the last market moves these teams are very balanced. It will be a looong season for all of them. Let's see ... And here too we wish a very happy season to all players, coaches and, above all, fans. |
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| A.J. Guyton joins Interperformances | |
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| | | 6.2 guard A.J. Guyton (187-G-78, agency: Interperformances, college: Indiana) has signed a representation agreement with Interperformances. A.J. has played at all levels, from NCAA (with Indiana Hoosiers) to NBA (with Chicago Bulls). In the last seasons he played in Europe: A.J. played for four years in Italy (two with Fortitudo Bologna and one with Virtus Bologna and Viola Reggio Calabria) moving then to Croatia, Greece and Sweden. |
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| Lega 2 roster changes | |
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| | | Harem Scafati officially announced the signing of ALB-ITA Claudio Ndoja (198-G/F-85), from Upea Capo d'Orlando. Vanoli Soresina annonunced the agreement with former NT member Dante Calabria (194-G-73, agency: Megasport, college: N.Carolina), who inked a one-year contract with the team |
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| Bargnani shines again | |
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| | | Good news for italian players from NBA preseason games. Andrea Bargnani (209-F/C-85) produced another solid performance during his Toronto Raptors win against New York Knicks. Andrea played 27 minutes scoring 15 points (4/10 2p, 1/2 3p,), with 5 rebounds, 2 assisists and 1 block. Also Andrea Belinelli (1,96 G 86) did well with his Golden State Warriors against Portland Trailblazers. He played 26 minutes and scored 9 points (2/5 2p, 1/4 3p, 2/2 ft) with 4 rebounds. Now, all italian fans are waiting for Danilo Gallinari (2,05 G/F -88), who is now regularly training after the injury suffered during his first preseason game with Mike D'Antoni's Knicks |
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| More News About Avellino | |
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| | | We wrongly wrote that Drake Diener (196-G-81, agency: Priority Sports, college: De Paul) was signed by Avellino to substitute Tamar Slay (204-G-80, college: Marshall). But the forward is just injured at the moment and he'll stay in the roster with Travis Best (180-G-72, college: Georgia Tech), Chris Warren (196-F-81, agency: Higher Vision Sports, college: S.Carolina), Drake Diener and Eric Williams (206-C-84, agency: Priority Sports, college: Wake Forest). Slay, last summer, has signed a 2 years contract with Air Avellino, after the great season played at Capo D'Orlando. |
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| Avellino inks Mike Nardi | |
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