What is considered the most engaging event in Italian basketball begins on Wednesday 14 February
The wait is over: we enter the week leading to the Final Eight of Italian Cup of basketball, scheduled from 14 to 18 February at the Inalpi Arena in Turin. The eight best teams of the first round, from Brescia to Pistoia via Milan, Bologna and beyond, are ready to battle and compete for the first trophy of 2024. An event, a show, which the president of LBA, Umberto Gandiniwanted to define “basketball party”.
“That’s the idea – he declared to La Repubblica. After the closed-door edition in Milan in 2021 and Pesaro the following year, we chose Turin, a “neutral” ground. The sporting event remains the most important, but we will celebrate top Italian basketball. We involved the Women’s League with the Final Four and brought back an international coaching clinic with big names.”
At the Inalpi Arena there will be lots of entertainment around the matches: “There are common paths: music and basketball have a certain similarity. We have chosen for Wednesday and Thursday Saturnine: high-level author and entertaining frontman who can build artistic moments of great interest. The great news is that on Wednesday and Thursday we will stay at the sports hall, we will be able to have dinner with a show that is at least an hour and a half long.”
Promise of great show outside, but also and above all on the pitch. We start on Wednesday 14 February at 6.00 pm with EA7 Emporio Armani Milano playing against Dolomiti Energia Trentino, followed by the match between Umana Reyer Venezia and Estra Pistoia, a newly promoted team who immediately admitted that they wanted to play them (“we will try to win, they are one-off matches”, coach Brienza told our microphones).
On Thursday 15 February at 6pm there will be space for the other big team, Virtus Segafredo Bologna, involved in the Emilian derby against UNAHOTELS Reggio Emilia. The reigning champion will follow Germani Brescia, against Generazione Vincente Napoli. Semifinals on Saturday, final scheduled for Sunday again at the Inalpi Arena.
2024-02-12 13:01:08
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