New Basket Brindisi

New Basket Brindisi
Leagues	Lega Serie A
Founded	1992
History	1950 - Present
Arena	PalaPentassuglia (3,523 seats)
Location	Brindisi, Italy
Team colors	Blue and White
President	Antonio Corliano'
Head coach	Piero Bucchi
Championships	LegADue (1): 2010
Website	newbasketbrindisi.it
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New Basket Enel Brindisi, also known as Enel Brindisi for sponsorship reason, is a professional Italian team playing in first Italian division Serie A Italian League. It plays its matches at PalaPentassuglia (3,523 seats, restored in 2010) in the city of Brindisi (Puglia Region). Enel Brindisi returned in Serie A after 28 years (last season was 1982/1983), played in the minor leagues. For 2011-2012 season will play in second italian league

History

The basketball was born in Brindisi in the 50s with the great Italian coach Elio Pentassuglia. The first participation in the league was in 1974 with Libertas. Then in 1980 another with Bartolini Brindisi, team where played for the Americans Otis Howard, Rich Yonakor, Cliff Pondexter and coach Rudy D'Amico. After many years in the minor leagues in recent years the entrepreneur Massimo Ferrarese acquired the team with Antonio Corliano ', winning three championships and in 2010 bringing the city of Brindisi in the Italian major league.

2011-2012 roster

Alex Renfroe	PG
Craig Callahan	PF
Matteo Formenti	G[disambiguation needed ]
Ebi Ere	G[disambiguation needed ]
Klaudio Ndoja	PF
Matteo Maestrello	F
Andrea Zerini	PF
Dejan Borovnjak	C
Mitchell Poletti	C
Alex Simoncelli	PG

Coach: Piero Bucchi

Notable players

Claudio Malagoli 5 seasons: '80-'85 Joe Crispin 1 seasons: '09-'10 Otis Howard 2 seasons: '81-'82, '82-'83 Cliff Pondexter 1 seasons: '83-'84 Omar Thomas 1 season: '09-'10 Rich Yonakor 2 seasons: '80-'81, '81-'82 Earl Williams 1 seasons: '83-'84 Tony Zeno 2 seasons: '81-'82, '84-'86 Nikola Radulovic 2 seasons: '09-'10, '10-'11 Anthony Roberson 1 seasons: '10-'11 Maurice Taylor 1 seasons: '10-'11 Yakhouba Diawara 1 seasons: '10-'11 Cedric Jackson 1 seasons: '10-'11 Bobby Dixon 1 seasons: '10-'11 Marty Byrnes 2 seasons: '84-'85, '85-'86

Coaches

Rudy D'Amico - 1981-82 Massimo Bianchi - 2004-05 Elio Pentassuglia - 1970-82 Piero Bucchi - 2011 Giovanni Perdichizzi - 2008-2010 Paolo Moretti - 2007-2008