New Virtus Bologna forward Saliou Niang was officially introduced to the press at the Savoia Hotel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very happy to be here. Playing in the Euroleague has been one of my dreams since I was a child, and I can\u2019t wait to get started. It was my goal, and doing it with Virtus makes me even happier. I am ready to continue my growth, and I want to do it here at Virtus. At the European Championships, I felt a lot of closeness and support. It was a great experience that made me better and even more excited to start this new adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strengths and weaknesses of his game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel like I\u2019m improving. I definitely feel more relaxed and at ease when I\u2019m on the court now. When that happens, things go better. The fundamentals always need to be improved, shooting is definitely something I need to work on, but I am aware of that and I will do so.\u201d<\/p>\n His Virtus teammates on the italian national team.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe have spent a lot of time together, they have told me a lot about the Virtus environment and how they work. They are fantastic teammates, they have helped me a lot to integrate into the national team and now they are doing the same at Virtus. I\u2019m very happy to be on the team with them. Pozzecco and Ivanovic? They are different coaches, switching between them helps a lot, you prepare for everything. I\u2019m very happy to play for Coach Ivanovic and I wish Pozzecco all the best for his career.\u201d<\/p>\n First impressions on the new team.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Virtus has a huge fan base. I think any player would want to have supporters like that. I can\u2019t wait to get started, to take to the court at the Paladozza for the Virtus fans.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The talented forward, who was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the 58th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, signed a multi-year deal with Virtus Bologna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":461414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-461426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-serie-a","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/DSC01575-1024x683-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461426","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461426"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=461426"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=461426"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=461426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}