{"id":487611,"date":"2026-03-11T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487611"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:09:06","slug":"olimpia-milanos-ettore-messina-in-new-york-nba-europe-is-a-huge-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/olimpia-milanos-ettore-messina-in-new-york-nba-europe-is-a-huge-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Olimpia Milano\u2019s Ettore Messina in New York: NBA Europe is a huge opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1852\" data-end=\"2112\"><strong data-start=\"1852\" data-end=\"1870\">Ettore Messina<\/strong>, president of basketball operations at <strong data-start=\"1910\" data-end=\"1928\">Olimpia Milano<\/strong>, was a special guest at Italy\u2019s General Consulate in New York for an event organized by IBBL, where he also discussed the future of European basketball and the <strong data-start=\"2089\" data-end=\"2103\">NBA Europe<\/strong> project.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2114\" data-end=\"2430\">On NBA Europe, Messina called it \u201ca huge opportunity to clean up the ecosystem in Europe,\u201d adding: \u201cPlayers play too many games\u2026 there is a conversation between EuroLeague and the NBA\u2026 I hope they find a common path.\u201d He stressed the need for financial sustainability and a framework shared by the two organizations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2432\" data-end=\"2679\">Messina also said the NBA is in talks with \u201ca group of teams,\u201d including <strong data-start=\"2505\" data-end=\"2523\">Olimpia Milano<\/strong>: \u201cThere are seven or eight European teams, and others to be created \u2018artificially\u2019 in cities like <strong data-start=\"2622\" data-end=\"2649\">Rome, Manchester, Paris<\/strong>. They are working very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2681\" data-end=\"2918\">He also addressed his decision to step down as Milano\u2019s head coach: \u201cI realized I couldn\u2019t do that job anymore\u2026 we had already prepared a succession plan with my lead assistant for the following year, and we decided to do it right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1438\" data-end=\"1510\">Source: <em data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1451\">ANSA e <a href=\"https:\/\/realolimpiamilano.com\/2026\/03\/11\/ettore-messina-nba-europe-olimpia-milano-new-york\/\">RealOlimpiaMilano<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>peaking at Italy\u2019s Consulate, Milano\u2019s basketball operations president addresses NBA-EuroLeague talks and confirms Olimpia are among the clubs involved in discussions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":474595,"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":[199,399,259],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba","category-serie-a"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Giuseppe-Peppe-Poeta-Sergio-Rodriguez-Ettore-Messina-.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487611","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487611"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487611"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487611"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}