Olimpia Milano
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Olimpia Milano is a Lega Basket
Serie A (basketball)
Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 professional basketball
Basketball
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 team, based in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy
Italy
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, founded in 1936 by Milan businessman Adolfo Bogoncelli. Its colors are red and white, and the team is sometimes referred as "Scarpette Rosse" (Little Red Shoes) because team officials imported from the United States
United States
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 red Converse All-Star shoes for players. The tag line stuck, and the nickname is still used by many fans today.

As usual in the Italian league, their sponsorship has kept the team name changing frequently. From 1936 until 1955, Borletti sponsored the club, then sponsorship changed to Simmenthal until 1973. Other famous sponsorships were Billy, Simac, Tracer and Philips in the Eighties. For past club sponsorship names, see the list below.

It's the most titled basketball team in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, having won 25 Italian Championships, 3 European Champions Cups
Euroleague
Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...

, 4 Italian National Cups
Coppa Italia di pallacanestro maschile
The Italian Basketball Cup , or Coppa Italia, is an annual professional basketball competition between pro clubs from the Italian League.-History and format:...

, 1 Intercontinental Cup
Intercontinental Cup (basketball)
The World Cup for Champion Clubs, commonly referred to as the Intercontinental Cup, was a basketball competition endorsed by FIBA to gather the best clubs from the federations affiliated to FIBA and to officially decide the best club of the world, contended mainly by the continents of higher...

, 3 Saporta Cup
Saporta Cup
Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European professional club basketball competition, where the National Cup winners from all over Europe played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA Europe...

s, 2 Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

s and many other youth titles.

Well-known players that have played with the team have included: Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in a suburb of St....

, Antoine Carr
Antoine Carr
Antoine Labotte Carr is a retired American basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.-Early life:Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...

, Mike D'Antoni
Mike D'Antoni
Michael Andrew "Mike" D'Antoni is an Italian-American former basketball player and is currently the head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks. While head coach of the Phoenix Suns, he won NBA Coach of the Year honors for the 2004–05 NBA season after the Suns posted 33 more wins than the previous...

, Earl Cureton
Earl Cureton
Earl Cureton is a retired American professional basketball player. His nickname was "The Twirl".-NBA player:...

, Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll is a retired American professional basketball player who spent ten seasons in the NBA.-1974–1976:...

, Bob McAdoo, Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is widely considered as the best Italian player ever, as well as one of Europe's all time greats. A 2.06 m tall center, Meneghin was born in Alano di Piave, Veneto...

, Ken Barlow
Ken Barlow (basketball)
Kenneth Barlow is an American former professional basketball player.Barlow graduated from University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.- Basketball career :...

, Albert King
Albert King (basketball)
Albert King is a retired American professional basketball player. King played at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn and is regarded as one of the nation's greatest high school players of all time. He was rated the top prep player in the nation over Magic Johnson and Gene Banks during his senior...

, Marc Iavaroni
Marc Iavaroni
Marcus John Iavaroni is a retired American professional basketball player, current assistant coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, and former head coach of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies....

, Aleksandar Djordjevic, Antonio Davis
Antonio Davis
Antonio Lee Davis is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Davis is also the former president of the NBA Players Association .-College career:...

, Darryl Dawkins
Darryl Dawkins
Darryl Dawkins is a retired American professional basketball player, most noted for his days with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, although he also played briefly for the Detroit Pistons and Utah Jazz late in his career...

, Hugo Sconochini
Hugo Sconochini
Hugo Ariel Sconochini is an Argentine professional basketball shooting guard and small forward....

, Gregor Fučka
Gregor Fucka
Gregor Fučka is a retired Italian basketball player of Slovenian origin. A 215 cm forward-center, he was a European Player of the Year Mister Europa and Euroscar laureate in 2000.- Pro career :...

, Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

, Rolando Blackman
Rolando Blackman
Rolando Antonio Blackman is a retired professional basketball player. He was an All-Star who spent most of his career with the Dallas Mavericks...

, Anthony Bowie
Anthony Bowie
Anthony Lee Bowie is an American basketball player. He is a former NBA shooting guard, most renowned for his stint with the Orlando Magic...

, Thurl Bailey
Thurl Bailey
Thurl Lee Bailey is an American retired professional basketball player in the NBA whose career spanned from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves.- Basketball career :...

, Beno Udrih
Beno Udrih
Beno Udrih is a Slovenian professional basketball player for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. He was traded to the Bucks on June 23, 2011 after spending four seasons in Sacramento. -Early career:...

, Alejandro Montecchia
Alejandro Montecchia
Alejandro Montecchia is an Argentine professional basketball point guard. He is also a regular on his country's national team, with which he won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.- External links :**...

, Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari is an Italian professional basketball player with Olimpia Milano of the Italian basketball league. He is also under contract with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, and is expected to return to that team when the 2011 NBA lockout ends. He is 2.08 m in height and 102.1 kg in...

 and lately Maurice Taylor
Maurice Taylor
Maurice De Shawn Taylor is an American professional basketball power forward.-College career:Taylor attended the University of Michigan. The athletic forward, from Henry Ford High School in Detroit, burst onto the national scene during the 1994 Maui Invitational with fellow freshman Maceo Baston...

.

History

Foreign players began playing in 1957, and the team kept winning the LEGA Basket
Serie A (basketball)
Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 Serie A championship of Italian basketball, with players from the 1960s including Nane Vianello, Sandro Riminucci, Pieri, and Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in a suburb of St....

. In the 60's and the 1970s three teams were fighting across Europe for supremacy: Olimpia Milano, Ignis Varese
Pallacanestro Varese
-Notable players:-Notable coaches: Aleksandar Nikolić Nico Messina Sandro Gamba Edoardo Rusconi Joe Isaac Carlo Recalcati Valerio Bianchini Ruben Magnano-Sponsorship names:Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:...

, and Real Madrid
Real Madrid Baloncesto
Real Madrid Baloncesto is a Spanish professional basketball team founded in 1932 as a division of the Real Madrid club. They play in the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto ....

; Pallacanestro Varese
Pallacanestro Varese
-Notable players:-Notable coaches: Aleksandar Nikolić Nico Messina Sandro Gamba Edoardo Rusconi Joe Isaac Carlo Recalcati Valerio Bianchini Ruben Magnano-Sponsorship names:Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:...

 and Olimpia Milano were arch-rivals, as the two cities are 25 miles (40 km) apart. While Milano was a frequent Italian League
Serie A (basketball)
Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 champion, they were unable to win the prestigious European Championship Cup
Euroleague
Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...

.

Late in the 1970s, the quality of play declined, but Olimpia Milano still won a Cup Winners' Cup
Saporta Cup
Saporta Cup was the name of the second-tier level European professional club basketball competition, where the National Cup winners from all over Europe played against each other. The competition was organized by FIBA Europe...

. In the second half of the 1970s the team signed several good players: the Boselli twins, Mike Silvester and Mike D'Antoni
Mike D'Antoni
Michael Andrew "Mike" D'Antoni is an Italian-American former basketball player and is currently the head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks. While head coach of the Phoenix Suns, he won NBA Coach of the Year honors for the 2004–05 NBA season after the Suns posted 33 more wins than the previous...

. American head coach
Head coach
A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches...

 Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A1 after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team has announced that he will assume...

 and a new sponsor led the team back to prominence, and the team was sold in 1980 to the Gabetti family. Top Italian superstar Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is widely considered as the best Italian player ever, as well as one of Europe's all time greats. A 2.06 m tall center, Meneghin was born in Alano di Piave, Veneto...

 joined the team in 1981 and more players signed for Milano afterwards— John Gianelli, Roberto Premier. Bob McAdoo, Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll is a retired American professional basketball player who spent ten seasons in the NBA.-1974–1976:...

, Russ Schoene
Russ Schoene
Russ Schoene is a retired American professional basketball player and former assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Washington....

, Antoine Carr
Antoine Carr
Antoine Labotte Carr is a retired American basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.-Early life:Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...

, and Mike Brown
Mike Brown (basketball player)
Michael "Mike" Brown is a retired American professional basketball player. A durable 6'9" power forward/center, he played at George Washington University in the early 1980s, where he received the nickname "The New Washington Monument." After four years of college ball, Brown was selected by the...

 followed.

During the 1980s, they qualified for nine LEGA championships finals, winning five, with the 1987 team winning LEGA Serie A, the European Championship (won also in 1988: both finals were won against Maccabi Tel Aviv
Maccabi Tel Aviv (basketball)
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv B.C. is a professional Israeli basketball club based in Tel Aviv. The team plays in three leagues: the Euroleague, the Israeli Basketball Super League, and the Adriatic League....

), the Italian Cup and the 1987
1987 Intercontinental Cup (basketball)
The 1987 Intercontinental basketball Cup took place at Palatrussardi, Milan. From FIBA European Championship participated Tracer Milano Maccabi Tel Aviv Cibona Žalgiris, Barcelona...

 Intercontinental Cup
Intercontinental Cup (basketball)
The World Cup for Champion Clubs, commonly referred to as the Intercontinental Cup, was a basketball competition endorsed by FIBA to gather the best clubs from the federations affiliated to FIBA and to officially decide the best club of the world, contended mainly by the continents of higher...

. This gave the club the coveted Triple Crown in Basketball
Triple Crown in Basketball
The Triple Crown is a term in European professional club basketball that refers to a club winning their country's top tier national domestic league, primary national domestic cup, and the top tier European continental level competition in the same season. It is the highest accomplishment that a...

 and the even rarer Quadruple Crown.

Led by point guard Sasha Djordjevic, the team won another Korać Cup
Korac Cup
The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the 1971-72 and 2001-02 seasons. It was the third-tier level club competition in European basketball, after the European Champions' Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup...

 in 1993. Bepi Stefanel purchased the team in 1994, and the team signed notable European players like Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

, Gregor Fučka
Gregor Fucka
Gregor Fučka is a retired Italian basketball player of Slovenian origin. A 215 cm forward-center, he was a European Player of the Year Mister Europa and Euroscar laureate in 2000.- Pro career :...

, Sandro De Pol, and Nando Gentile. In 1996, the team won the Italian Cup and its 25th Italian National Championship, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the club.

Team management has been inconsistent as ownership groups from 1998 to 2004 have included Warren Kidd
Warren Kidd
Warren Lynn Kidd , is a retired American basketball player. A solid 6'9", 235 lbs center, he was never drafted by an NBA franchise but spent a single season with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1993/94....

, Hugo Sconochini
Hugo Sconochini
Hugo Ariel Sconochini is an Argentine professional basketball shooting guard and small forward....

, Claudio Coldebella and Petar Naumoski. The current ownership, which bought the club in 2004, includes Adriano Galliani
Adriano Galliani
Adriano Galliani is an Italian entrepreneur who has been serving as vice-president and C.E.O. of Italian football club Associazione Calcio Milan since 1986. During his tenure as CEO, Milan have won five European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles and eight Serie A titles among other achievements and...

 (Managing Director of Italian Football club A.C. Milan
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...

), Massimo Moratti
Massimo Moratti
Massimo Moratti is an Italian oil tycoon. He is the owner and President of Italian football team Football Club Internazionale Milano, and Chief Executive Officer of Saras S.p.A.-Life and career:...

 (President of rival club Internazionale), NBA star Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bean Bryant is an American professional basketball player who plays shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . Bryant enjoyed a successful high school basketball career at Lower Merion High School, where he was recognized as the top high school...

, and stylist Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...

, among others.

On January 25, 2006, in the midst of a disappointing season in the Euroleague and domestically, Djordjevic was named as the team's new coach. He left as coach after the 2006–07 season, but not before securing Olimpia a berth in the 2007–08 Euroleague
Euroleague 2007-08
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.
On January 2011, glorious coach Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson
Dan Peterson is a former American professional basketball head coach. He resigned his most recent position as the head coach of Olimpia Milano in the Italian Serie A1 after the team was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 2011 Italian league playoffs. The team has announced that he will assume...

 came back from retirement to replace Piero Bucchi as head coach. However, his stint at Olimpia Milano this time was quite short: after failing to reach the championship Finals, on June 9th Olimpia Milano announced Sergio Scariolo
Sergio Scariolo
Sergio Scariolo is an Italian professional basketball coach. From 2008 to 2010 he was the head coach of Russian Super League club Khimki Moscow Region, now he is the head coach of the senior Spanish national basketball team, with whom he won the EuroBasket 2009 and the EuroBasket 2011- External...

 as new head coach for the 2011-12 season. The first player signed for the 2011-12 season is Omar Cook
Omar Cook
Omar Cook is a naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player and member of the Montenegro national basketball team who grew up in the United States. He is often referred to as a prime example of college basketball players who declared for the NBA Draft too early. He is 1.86 m tall...

, American-born playmaker who played last season with Power Electronics Valencia.

Depth Chart

Pos. Starter Bench Bench Inactive
C
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

Ioannis Bourousis  Mason Rocca
Mason Rocca
Richard Mason Rocca is an Italian-American professional basketball player. His father is of Italian descent...

 
Leon Radosevic 
PF
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...

Antonis Fotsis
Antonis Fotsis
Antonis Fotsis is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 2.09 m power forward...

 
Stefano Mancinelli
Stefano Mancinelli
Stefano Mancinelli is an Italian professional basketball player. He is 203 cm tall and he can play both the small forward and power forward positions and he can also play as a point forward.-Pro career:...

 
SF
Small forward
The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...

Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari is an Italian professional basketball player with Olimpia Milano of the Italian basketball league. He is also under contract with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, and is expected to return to that team when the 2011 NBA lockout ends. He is 2.08 m in height and 102.1 kg in...

 
Malik Hairston
Malik Hairston
Malik Samory Hairston is an American basketball player, chosen in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Phoenix Suns, who then traded his rights to the San Antonio Spurs. He previously played for the University of Oregon. During his professional career, Hairston has played for the San Antonio Spurs and the...

 
SG
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...

Drew Nicholas
Drew Nicholas
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Jeffrey Viggiano
Jeffrey Viggiano
Jeffrey Donald "Jeff" Viggiano is an Italian professional basketball player currently with Italian league team Angelico Biella...

 
PG
Point guard
Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

Omar Cook
Omar Cook
Omar Cook is a naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player and member of the Montenegro national basketball team who grew up in the United States. He is often referred to as a prime example of college basketball players who declared for the NBA Draft too early. He is 1.86 m tall...

 
Jacopo Giachetti
Jacopo Giachetti
Jacopo Giachetti is an Italian basketball player currently signed with Lottomatica Roma.Jacopo Giachetti is an Italian basketball player currently signed with Lottomatica Roma.Jacopo Giachetti is an Italian basketball player currently signed with...

 
Ariel Filloy




Notable players

Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in a suburb of St....

 1 season: '65–'66-  Mike D'Antoni
Mike D'Antoni
Michael Andrew "Mike" D'Antoni is an Italian-American former basketball player and is currently the head coach of the NBA's New York Knicks. While head coach of the Phoenix Suns, he won NBA Coach of the Year honors for the 2004–05 NBA season after the Suns posted 33 more wins than the previous...

 13 seasons: '77–'90 Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin
Dino Meneghin is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is widely considered as the best Italian player ever, as well as one of Europe's all time greats. A 2.06 m tall center, Meneghin was born in Alano di Piave, Veneto...

 11 seasons: '81–'90, '93–'95 Roberto Premier
Roberto Premier
Roberto Premier is an Italian former basketball player. He is 1.96 m tall. He played at small forward position.He played for Gorizia Pallacanestro , Olimpia Milano , Pallacanestro Virtus Roma...

 8 seasons: '81–'89 Antoine Carr
Antoine Carr
Antoine Labotte Carr is a retired American basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.-Early life:Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...

 1 season: '83–'84 Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll
Joe Barry Carroll is a retired American professional basketball player who spent ten seasons in the NBA.-1974–1976:...

 1 season: '84–'85 Earl Cureton
Earl Cureton
Earl Cureton is a retired American professional basketball player. His nickname was "The Twirl".-NBA player:...

 2 seasons: '83–'84, '89–'90 Darryl Dawkins
Darryl Dawkins
Darryl Dawkins is a retired American professional basketball player, most noted for his days with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, although he also played briefly for the Detroit Pistons and Utah Jazz late in his career...

 3 seasons: '91–'93 Bob McAdoo 4 seasons: '86–'90 JD Miller 1 season: '86–'87 Ken Barlow
Ken Barlow (basketball)
Kenneth Barlow is an American former professional basketball player.Barlow graduated from University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.- Basketball career :...

 1 season: '86–'87 Rickey Brown
Rickey Brown
Rickey Darnell Brown is a retired American basketball player who played collegiately for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, Mississippi State University in Mississippi and was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the 1st round of the 1980 NBA Draft...

 1 season: '87–'88 Piero Montecchi 5 seasons: '87–'92 Davide Pessina 5 seasons: '88–'89, '91–'95 Antonello Riva
Antonello Riva
Antonello Riva is an Italian retired basketball player. Nicknamed "Nembo Kid", he started playing basketball in 1977-78....

 5 seasons: '89–'94 Jay Vincent
Jay Vincent
Jay Fletcher Vincent is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward, Vincent played at Michigan State University under coach, Jud Heathcote, where he teamed with Magic Johnson and Greg Kelser to win the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament...

 1 season: '90–'91 Johnny Rogers
Johnny Rogers
John Bernard Rogers Bakker is a retired American professional basketball player. Listed at 6'10" and 225 lbs he played the power forward position and played collegiately at Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine.- NBA :Rogers was selected with the 10th pick of the second...

 1 season: '91–'92 Aleksandar "Sasha" Djordjevic 2.5 seasons: '92–'94, '04–'05 (second part) Antonio Davis
Antonio Davis
Antonio Lee Davis is a retired American National Basketball Association player. Davis is also the former president of the NBA Players Association .-College career:...

 1 season: '92–'93 Hugo Sconochini
Hugo Sconochini
Hugo Ariel Sconochini is an Argentine professional basketball shooting guard and small forward....

 4 seasons: '93–'95, '02–'04 Žan Tabak
Žan Tabak
Žan Tabak is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. His basketball career, spanning twenty years, was marked by several notable achievements, despite injuries....

 1 season: '93–'94 Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

 2 seasons: '94–'96 Ed Stokes
Ed Stokes
Edward Kobie Stokes is an American former professional basketball player, who played at the center position....

 1 season: '94–'95 -   Gregor Fučka
Gregor Fucka
Gregor Fučka is a retired Italian basketball player of Slovenian origin. A 215 cm forward-center, he was a European Player of the Year Mister Europa and Euroscar laureate in 2000.- Pro career :...

 3 seasons: '94–'97 Ferdinando Gentile
Ferdinando Gentile
Ferdinando "Nando" Gentile is an Italian retired professional basketball player. Gentile is considered one of the best European Shooting guards of the 1990s.-Professional career:...

 3.5 seasons: '94–'96, '96–'97 (first part), '97–'98
  • Sandro De Pol 3 seasons: '94–'97 Rolando Blackman
    Rolando Blackman
    Rolando Antonio Blackman is a retired professional basketball player. He was an All-Star who spent most of his career with the Dallas Mavericks...

     1 season: '95–'96 Anthony Bowie
    Anthony Bowie
    Anthony Lee Bowie is an American basketball player. He is a former NBA shooting guard, most renowned for his stint with the Orlando Magic...

     1 season: '96–'97 Giorgos Kalaitzis
    Giorgos Kalaitzis
    Giorgos Kalaitzis ; born August 29, 1976 in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player.-Club career:...

     1 season: '96–'97 Warren Kidd
    Warren Kidd
    Warren Lynn Kidd , is a retired American basketball player. A solid 6'9", 235 lbs center, he was never drafted by an NBA franchise but spent a single season with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1993/94....

     3 seasons: '96–'98, '02–'03 Thurl Bailey
    Thurl Bailey
    Thurl Lee Bailey is an American retired professional basketball player in the NBA whose career spanned from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves.- Basketball career :...

     1 season: '97–'98 Giorgos Sigalas
    Giorgos Sigalas
    Giorgos Sigalas , is a retired Greek professional basketball player. During the 1990s, the 6'7" swingman was the regular captain of the senior men's Greek national team, as well as of the Athens-based Olympiacos in the Greek League and the Euroleague...

     1 season: '97–'98 Flavio Portaluppi 12 seasons: Feb '89–'90, '92–'02 DeMarco Johnson
    DeMarco Johnson
    DeMarco Antonio Johnson is an American professional basketball player.At 6'9", 245 lb forward, Johnson attended and played collegiately for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and was selected by the New York Knicks with the 9th pick of the 2nd round of the 1998 NBA Draft...

     1 season: '98–'99 Melvin Booker
    Melvin Booker
    Melvin Jermaine Booker is an American basketball player. A 6'1" , 185 lb point guard, he played collegiately for the Missouri Tigers....

     2 seasons: '98–'99, '07–'08 Shawn Respert
    Shawn Respert
    Shawn Christopher Respert is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'1", 195 lb. shooting guard, he attended Bishop Borgess High School, and he came to prominence while playing college basketball at Michigan State University where his jersey is now retired...

     1 season: '99–'00 Stefano Rusconi
    Stefano Rusconi
    Stefano Rusconi is an Italian professional basketball player.The 208 cm center was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2nd round of the 1990 NBA Draft, they have traded his NBA rights to the Phoenix Suns in 1991 for the rights to Miloš Babić...

     3 seasons: '99–'02 Lee Nailon
    Lee Nailon
    Lee Nailon is an American professional basketball player. Nailon was a graduate of South Bend Clay High School, where along with former Purdue player, Jaraan Cornell, he led his basketball team to the 1994 State Championship.After an all-conference career at Texas Christian University, Nailon was...

     1 season: '99–'00-  Mike Iuzzolino
    Mike Iuzzolino
    Michael Alan Iuzzolino is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2nd round of the 1991 NBA Draft. Iuzzolino, a 5 foot 10 inch point guard, played two years in the NBA, both with the Mavericks averaging 9.0 ppg in his career...

     1 season: '00–'01 Johnny Taylor
    Johnny Taylor (basketball)
    Johnny Antonio Taylor is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. A 6'9" small forward from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Taylor was selected 17th overall in the 1997 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic...

     1 season: '00–'01 Louis Bullock
    Louis Bullock
    Louis Bullock, Jr. is an American professional basketball player. He is currently with the pro club CB Cajasol Sevilla in Spain....

     1 season: '01–'02 Martin Rancik 3 seasons: '01–'04-  Henry Turner Uzun
    Henry Turner (basketball)
    Henry Frank Turner is a retired American professional basketball player, in the small forward position.-Basketball career:...

     1 season: '01–'02 Petar Naumoski
    Petar Naumoski
    Petar Naumoski is a former Macedonian basketball player who had successful years especially in Turkey and Italy. He is a 1.94 m point-guard and a very skillful playmaker. He once served as Sport Minister of the Republic of Macedonia...

     2 seasons: '02–'04
Rod Sellers 1 season: '03–'04 Russ Schoene
Russ Schoene
Russ Schoene is a retired American professional basketball player and former assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Washington....

 2 seasons: '84-'86 Beno Udrih
Beno Udrih
Beno Udrih is a Slovenian professional basketball player for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. He was traded to the Bucks on June 23, 2011 after spending four seasons in Sacramento. -Early career:...

 1 season: '03–'04-  Dante Calabria
Dante Calabria
Dante Calabria is a American professional basketball player.A 6'5" guard, Calabria played college basketball at the University of North Carolina under coach Dean Smith....

 3 seasons: '04–'07 Jerry McCullough 1 season: '04–'05 Diego Fajardo 3 seasons: '04–'07 Preston Shumpert
Preston Shumpert
Mert Shumpert or Preston Anthony Shumpert is an American-Turkish professional basketball player currently playing for Turkish club Galatasaray....

 1 season: '05–'06 Kiwane Garris
Kiwane Garris
Kiwane Garris is an American former professional basketball player. He was listed as a 6'2" , 183 lb point guard....

 1 season: '06–'07 Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari
Danilo Gallinari is an Italian professional basketball player with Olimpia Milano of the Italian basketball league. He is also under contract with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, and is expected to return to that team when the 2011 NBA lockout ends. He is 2.08 m in height and 102.1 kg in...

 2 seasons: '06–'08 David Hawkins
David Hawkins (basketball)
David Hawkins is an American professional basketball player. He currently plays for Beşiktaş. He is a 1.95 m tall shooting guard.-College career:...

 2 seasons: '08–'09, '10-'11 Mindaugas Katelynas
Mindaugas Katelynas
Mindaugas Katelynas is a professional basketball player, currently playing for Lithuanian team BC Lietuvos Rytas.- Playing career :...

 2 seasons: '07–'09 Marijonas Petravicius
Marijonas Petravicius
Marijonas Petravičius is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. He currently a free agent. He is a member of the Lithuania national team...

 2 seasons: '09–'11 Jonas Mačiulis
Jonas Maciulis
Jonas Mačiulis , nicknamed "the bull", is a Lithuanian professional basketball player in the Euroleague and the Italian League with the Armani Jeans Milano. He is also a member of the Lithuania national team. He plays the small forward position.-Early years:Mačiulis spent two years competing in the...

 2 seasons: '09–'11 Alex Acker
Alex Acker
Alex Maurice Acker is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for Le Mans in France....

 1 season: '09–'10

Sponsorship names

Through the years, due to sponsorship deals, it has been also known as:
  • Borletti (1936–55)
  • Simmenthal (1955–73)
  • Innocenti (1973–75)
  • Cinzano
    Cinzano
    Cinzano is an Italian brand of vermouth, a brand owned since 1999 by Gruppo Campari. It comes in four versions:*Cinzano Rosso, which is amber-coloured;*Cinzano Bianco, which is white and drier than Rosso, yet still considered a sweet vermouth;...

     (1975–78)
  • Billy (1978–83)
  • Simac (1983–86)
  • Tracer (1986–88)
  • Philips
    Philips
    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

     (1988–93)
  • Recoaro (1993–94)
  • Stefanel (1994–98)
  • Sony
    Sony
    , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

     (1998–99)
  • Adecco (1999–02)
  • Pippo (2002–03)
  • Breil (2003–04)
  • Armani Jeans
    Armani Jeans
    Armani Jeans may refer to:*Armani#Armani_Jeans*Olimpia Milano, an Italian basketball club currently named Armani Jeans Milano...

     (2004–2011)
  • Emporio Armani (2011-present)

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