Ettore Messina
Ettore Messina
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| San Antonio Spurs | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Assistant coach | ||||||||||||
| League | NBA | ||||||||||||
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30 September 1959 Catania, Italy |
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1989–present | ||||||||||||
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| 1989–1993 | Virtus Bologna | ||||||||||||
| 1993–1997 | Italy | ||||||||||||
| 1997–2002 | Virtus Bologna | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | Benetton Treviso | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2009 | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Los Angeles Lakers (consultant) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | CSKA Moscow | ||||||||||||
| 2014–present | San Antonio Spurs (assistant) | ||||||||||||
| 2015–present | Italy | ||||||||||||
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Ettore Messina (born 30 September 1959) is an Italian professional basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named in 2008, one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.
He was named the Italian League's Best Coach three times, in the years 1998, 2001, and 2005. Furthermore, he has been named EuroLeague Coach of the Year twice, in 2006 and 2008. He was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. In 17 seasons, his career head coaching record in the EuroLeague is 279–98 (.740).
Messina had two different stints (1989–1993 and 1997–2002) at the Italian League team, Virtus Bologna. In the 1989–90 season, he won the Italian Cup and also the second-tier level European-wide league, the FIBA Cup Winners' Cup, against Real Madrid, in Florence. He also won the Italian League national championship in 1993. During his second stint at Virtus, he coached the team to win the first-tier level European-wide EuroLeague trophies, in both the 1997–98 and 2000–01 seasons. He also added two Italian League championships to his trophy case in 1998 and 2001, as well as three Italian Cup titles in 1999, 2001, and 2002.
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