The Utah Jazz forward Simone Fontecchio made a jump to the NBA and found his role in the team, even though it's rather limited. In an interview with Eleven Sports, the 27-year-old Italian talked about his experience in the US. "When there are some difficulties, the key is to have patience. Since this is my first year in the NBA, I knew that were go...

The Upside Down of March Madness is the annual coaching carousel where failing basketball programs desperately try to identify a winner who can return them to glory. There are always a few hot, coveted coaching prospects out there. Rarely has there been such a sure thing on the market. There is one now. He just happens to be 70 years old and freshl...

For Anthony Rocchio, human encounters and connections were more than an opportunity to forge new friendships. They were a cause for celebration. Rocchio’s natural gift for engaging others and wanting to learn about them brought him his greatest joy in life, says his family. “He celebrated other people and their lives,” said his oldest daughter, Ann...

Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero has been named the Kia NBA’s Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for February 2023. It is the third straight time that he has earned the league’s monthly honor. Banchero joins Shaquille O’Neal as the only players in franchise history to be named the league’s Rookie of the Month in three consecutive months. O’...

Ever since Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka got into the scandal that forced him to be suspended for a year, Joe Mazzulla was the interim head coach. The organization has now decided to change it. The Celtics officially announced that Mazzulla is not the permanent head coach, replacing Udoka in the position. The franchise has also extended the c...

Orlando Magic forward Paolo Banchero has been named the NBA’s Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for January 2023. It is the second straight month that he has earned the monthly honor. Italian-American Banchero becomes the third player in franchise history to be named the league’s Rookie of the Month in consecutive months, joining Shaquille O’N...

After more than 20 years, American ownership has returned to the highest level of professional basketball in Italy, the “Serie A”. Cotogna Sports Group (CSG), a company founded in 2022 by a group of students of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has purchased 90% of Pallacanestro Trieste, a professional basketball team based in T...

When the 2022 NBA draft was approaching, many pundits had a feeling that the Orlando Magic, the holders of the first pick in the draft, would select Jabari Smith or Chet Holmgren. From most mock drafts, Paolo Banchero was being placed between the No. 2 and No. 3 picks, with the possibility of ending up with the Oklahoma City Thunder or the Houston...

After suffering an embarrassing blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, the Boston Celtics were in need of something uplifting. On Wednesday, good news came in the form of a video from Celtics wing Danilo Gallinari, who’s currently healing from a torn ACL and hasn’t played a game all season. In the video posted to his Twitter, G...

Tory Verdi referenced a video while on a Zoom call in November 2021. Not because it was a learning experience and not because it was an example of success by a team under his mentorship. Nothing to do with basketball actually. Thuds of a beat masked by the screams of “aye” echoed through the small space. As Verdi’s finger pointed in the air in rhyt...