Pallacanestro Reggiana
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| Leagues | LBA | |||
| Founded | 1974 | |||
| History |
Pallacanestro Reggiana 1974–present |
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| Arena |
PalaBigi PalaDozza (European games and unavailability of PalaBigi) |
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| Capacity |
PalaBigi: 3,500 PalaDozza: 5,721 |
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| Location | Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy | |||
| Team colors | White & Red |
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| President | Maria Licia Ferrarini | |||
| Team manager | Alessandro Frosini | |||
| Head coach | Massimiliano Menetti | |||
| Ownership | Stefano Landi (Landi Renzo) | |||
| Championships |
1 EuroChallenge 2 LegaDue 1 Italian Supercup |
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| Website | pallacanestroreggiana.it | |||
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Pallacanestro Reggiana, also known for sponsorship reasons as Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia, is an Italian professional basketball team based in Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna. It plays in the LBA as of the 2016–17 season.
Pallacanestro Reggiana was founded on 3 September 1974 by eight friends who wanted to establish a club that would unite the basketball community of Reggio Emilia. They started to play in the regional Promozione in a white and blue jersey sponsored by Magazzini Jolly, with the season ending with a promotion to the Serie D, in which they stayed a couple of seasons before again moving up, to the Serie C. The 1977-78 pre-season saw the club merge with Cestistica Tricolore and come under the ownership of Cantine Riunite who also started sponsoring the club and changed its colours to white and red in the process. During the season itself, a team composed mainly by young local players led by Gianni Codeluppi earned a promotion to the third division Serie B. The summer again saw an organisational change as the club amalgamanated Pallacanestro Correggio, which led to the arrival of future great Orazio Rustichelli in the squad. On the court, the team struggled, finishing the season at the last place which would have seen it relegated if not for an off-the-court reprieve. Over the next seasons the team established itself in the Serie B without managing to reach the next level, debuting promising youngster Piero Montecchi in the process.
Players such as Rustichelli (now captain), Montecchi, Fuss and Zonta helped Pallacanestro Reggiana reach the professional ranks with a win in a promotion play-off played in Udine over Necchi Pavia that opened the gates of the second division Serie A2 at the end of the 1981-82 with thousands of young supporters invading the basketball court to celebrate. President Enrico Prandi kept Gianni Zappi as coach and recruited Americans Roosevelt Bouie and Rudy Hackett, father of future Italian national team player Daniel Hackett. These players, along with Pino Brumatti among others under new coach Gianfranco Lombardi, would help reach the Serie A anew. They would stay three seasons in the league, reaching the title playoffs in 1985-86 but going down the next season, with Montecchi leaving for Olimpia Milano at the end of the season. Coach Piero Pasini ensured Reggio Emilia only stayed one year away and the team stayed in the Serie A over the following seasons which saw club great Joe Bryant arrive (along with his future superstar son Kobe, who played with the youth side).
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