Amedeo Della Valle
 |
|||||||||||||
| No. 8 – Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | ||||||||||||
| League |
Serie A Eurocup |
||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||
| Born |
April 11, 1993 Alba, Italy |
||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||
| High school | Findlay Prep (Henderson, Nevada) | ||||||||||||
| College | Ohio State (2012–2014) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2014 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2009–present | ||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Junior Casale Monferrato | ||||||||||||
| 2014–present | Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia | ||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
|
Medals
|
|||||||||||||
Amedeo Della Valle (born April 11, 1993) is an Italian professional basketball player who plays for Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia of the Italian Serie A as a combo guard.
Della Valle progressed through the ranks of regional club Junior Casale Monferrato, living in Casale Monferrato in accommodation with teammates from the age of 14. Coach Marco Crespi, renowned for his youth coaching skills, gave him his debut in LegaDue in December 2009, aged just 16, he then played a handful of games for the first team although he mostly played in the youth team.
Wanting to develop his basketball in a different way, he moved to the United States in 2011, to Findlay Prep high school in Henderson, Nevada. There, he was a starter in their National High School Invitational victory in 2012, breaking the school record for three pointers in a season with 66.
This caught the eye of several colleges and, after graduating, he signed a letter of intent to play for Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA Division I, choosing them over scholarship offers from Arizona and Texas A&M. The only player recruited that year by Ohio State, Amedeo took some time to adapt to the rigours of college basketball, especially the physical side having never done weights in the past, he was exclusively used as a bench player in his freshman season. Having put on weight for his sophomore season he started earning more game time although he stayed a bench option, he notably was decisive in overturning an 18-point, second-half deficit to beat Nebraska in the quarter-finals of the Big Ten Tournament in what is regarded as his best game for the team. After Ohio State's elimination in the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament against Dayton he announced his intention to return to Italy to play professional basketball.
...
Wikipedia