Basket Livorno

Basket Livorno, also known for sponsorship reasons as TDShop.it Livorno is an Italian basketball club based in Livorno. [ [http://www.legaduebasket.it/team/?teamid=179 Livorno page on the official LegADue site] ]

In 2007/08 season it will play in the Italian LegADue (also known as Serie A2, second division of Italian professional basketball).

It got relegated from Serie A, the top division, after the 2006/07 season. Their home arena is PalaAlgida. Livorno was represented in the past in Serie A by two other teams, Libertas Livorno and Pallacanestro Livorno. Those teams have merged under the Libertas name in 1991, and the team went bankrupt in 1994. Currently Libertas plays in the lower levels of Italian basketball.

Basket Livorno was established in 1995 and, in the past, due to sponsorship deals, has also been known as Bini Viaggi Livorno (1996-99), Mabo Livorno (2000-02), Mabo Prefabbricati Livorno (2002-04) and Villaggio Solidago Livorno (2004-05). [ [http://195.56.77.208/team/history.phtml?id=LID Lega A Basket page on history of Livorno] ] Their best result so far was 11th place in Serie A in the 2004/05 season.

2008-2009 Roster

Notable past players

* Walter Santarossa 7 seasons: '96-'03
* Samuele Podestà 4 seasons: '96-'00
* flagicon|ITA Mario Gigena 3 seasons: '96-'99
* flagicon|ITA Silvio Gigena 3 seasons: '96-'99
* Alessandro Fantozzi 1 season: '96-'97
* John Turner 1 season: '96-'97
* flagicon|ITA Dante Calabria 1 season: '96-'97
* Mark Baker 1 season: '97-'98
* Brent Dabbs 1 season: '97-'98
* flagicon|CRO Ivica Marić 1 season: '98-'99
* Brad Miller 1 season: '98-'99
* Roy Rogers 1 season: '98-'99
* Tellis Frank 1 season: '99-'00
* Myron Brown 1 season: '99-'00
* Luca Garri 4 seasons: '00-'04
* Ken Barlow 2 seasons: '00-'02
* Tyrone Grant 2 seasons: '00-'02
* flagicon|USA Miles Simon 1 season: '00-'01
* Rodney Elliott 2 seasons: '01-'03
* Robert Conley 2 seasons: '01-'03
* Tommaso Fantoni 5 seasons: '02-'07
* flagicon|ITA Antonio Porta 4 seasons: '02-'06
* Keith McLeod 1 season: '02-'03
* Miladin Mutavdžić 1 season: '02-'03
* Charlie Bell 1 season: '03-'04
* Drew Nicholas 1 season: '04-'05
* Preston Shumpert 1 season: '04-'05
* Aloysius Anagonye 1 season: '04-'05
* Paul McPherson 2 seasons: '05-'07
* Chevon Troutman 1 season: '05-'06
* Lucas Recker 1 season: '05-'06
* Alan Daniels 1 season: '06-'07
* Jason Rowe 1 season: '06-'07
* Brandon Hunter 1 season: '06-'07

References

External links

* [http://www.basketlivorno.net/ Basket Livorno Official Site]