Italian Basketball Federation Gianni Petrucci: If you don’t want to participate in the Olympics Games you are not a great champion
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Danilo Gallinari joins Italy NT for Tokyo 2020 in place of Awudu Abass
Hawks forward will be at the Olympics in place of Virtus Bologna player
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Nico Mannion’s emotions after leading Italy to the Olympics: “It’s a lot bigger than I’d think”
Warriors guard spoke exclusively to Sportando after scoring 24 points in the OQT final in Belgrade
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Senegal will not play the OQT in Belgrade. Italy and Puertorico advance to semifinals
Senegal out due to covid
16/06/202107:40
Gigi Datome will not play Olympic Qualifying Tournament with Italbasket
Datome will miss the tournament in Belgrade
12/06/202120:19
Warriors guard Nico Mannion to play OQT with Italy; Paolo Banchero’s status still unclear
Italy will play in Belgrade for an Olympic bid. Next hours will be decisive for Duke forward to make his debut with Italian NT.
12/03/202109:09
Donte DiVincenzo highly unlikely to get Italian passport before Olympic Qualifying Tournament
DiVincenzo will not play for Italy in June
12/03/202108:44
Ettore Messina to be back as head coach of Italy’s National Team?
Messina ready for third experience as head coach of Italbasket?
23/11/202010:14
Paolo Banchero will not debut for Italy’s National Team in Tallinn’s bubble
Paolo Banchero won’t debut for Italy in Tallinn
21/11/202012:20
Future Duke star Paolo Banchero included in Italy 16-player list for Eurobasket qualifiers
Two players from Italy’s World Cup squad, Amedeo Della Valle and Amedeo Tessitori, are also included in the list.
19/11/202010:35
Italy’s NT young star Paolo Banchero will be considered naturalized player by FIBA
Banchero will not play as a local player but as naturalized
18/11/202019:36
Paolo Banchero to make Italy NT debut in Tallinn bubble
Duke commit will join the national team in a few days
17/11/202014:01
Gianni Petrucci confirmed as FIP president for the next four years
Petrucci received 90% of the available votes
24/10/202012:39
Paolo Banchero in Italbasket long list for the Tallinn ‘bubble’
Sacchetti selected also Sasha Grant (F, 2002), Davide Casarin (G, 2003) and Giordano Bortolani (SG, 2000)
08/10/202016:20
Hosts for November FIBA European Qualifiers windows tournaments confirmed
The FIBA Europe Board approved 16 applications to host qualification games in a protected environment tournament format (bubbles), in its 10th meeting, held via videoconference on Thursday
18/09/202010:24
November 2020 and February 2021 Qualifiers will be played in “bubbles”, FIBA says
FIBA will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation on a daily basis and communicate further updates in regard to FIBA Competitions when necessary
23/06/202017:16
Paolo Banchero officially gets Italian passport
Banchero is one of the top prospect of the 2021 class
11/04/202014:47
Nico Mannion: “I want to become an All-Star and win championships”
Nico Mannion talks about his future NBA goals and the Italian national team
07/04/202010:00
FIBA decisions on Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and Continental Cups coming on Thursday
Today the first meeting to discuss options for the rescheduling of EuroBasket Men’s and Women’s.
30/03/202011:20
Petrucci says FIP is pushing with FIBA to have Banchero as local player (not naturalized)
Petrucci updates also on DiVincenzo who is still without passport
06/03/202009:53
Paolo Banchero: I will play for the Italian National Team, I’m excited
Paolo Banchero will be a Italian National player
26/02/202011:29
Italbasket confident to have Paolo Banchero available for Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Italy is also close to giving a passport to Bucks guard Donte DiVincenzo. The hope of Italy is that FIBA will not consider Banchero as naturalized player
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