{"id":224178,"date":"2021-07-06T17:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=224178"},"modified":"2021-07-06T17:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T15:10:43","slug":"olimpia-milano-officially-signs-giampaolo-ricci-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olimpia-milano-officially-signs-giampaolo-ricci-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Olimpia Milano officially signs Giampaolo Ricci to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olimpia Milano has reached an agreement for two years with Giampaolo Ricci,<\/strong>\u00a0born in Rome on 27 September 1991, 2.02 mt tall, power forward, coming from Virtus Bologna. \u201cRicci has the skills and the human traits to perfectly fit our team. He will make our frontline better and will help to promote the values we believe in,\u201d Olimpia\u2019s general manager Christos Stavropoulos said. \u201cI\u2019m happy and excited about being part of a great organization like Olimpia Milan. The call I got from Coach Messina made the difference and convinced me to accept this huge challenge. I\u2019m coming from a very gratifying time, but I\u2019m really determined to make sure that next season will be even better. That\u2019s why I can\u2019t wait to play at the Forum, full of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>HIS CAREER<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Giampaolo Ricci grew up in Chieti where he started playing basketball in the Magic Chieti club before moving to Pallacanestro Chieti and finally to Stella Azzurra Roma in 2007, remaining there until 2011. From 2011 to 2015, he played in A2 in Casalpusterlengo, then he spent one year in Verona and another one in Tortona where he averaged 10.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game, earning the call from Cremona where he remained two more years, and helped the team win Italian Cup in 2019 (he averaged 9.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game). During the summer of 2019, he moved to Virtus Bologna where he remained for another two years, winning the Italian title in 2021. During the 2019\/20 season, he averaged 9.2 points and 4.9 rebounds per game; in 2020\/21, he averaged 6.5 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. During the last season\u2019s Eurocup, he started in 20 out of 21 games, averaging 6.4 points and 3.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>NOTES<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ricci made his National Team debut on November 29, 2018, in Brescia, in an Italy win over Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olimpia Milano has reached an agreement for two years with Giampaolo Ricci,\u00a0born in Rome on 27 September 1991<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":224175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[185,15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-224178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-official","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/51293617191_6a4e4c7afe_k.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224178"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=224178"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=224178"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=224178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}