2016–17 Lega Basket Serie A

Lega Basket Serie A
Teams	16
Games played	240 (Regular season) 24–41 (Playoffs)
Duration	2 October 2016 – June 2017
TV	RAI, Sky Italia[1]
Records
Highest scoring	Torino 97–100 EA7 Milano (6 November 2016)
Winning streak	8 games EA7 Emporio Armani Milano
Losing streak	5 games Red October Cantù
Home win	Capo d'Orlando 96–53 Cantù (30 October 2016)
Away win	Reyer Venezia 59–76 Trento (16 October 2016) Brescia 80–97 EA7 Milano (23 October 2016)

The 2016–17 Lega Basket Serie A will be the 95th season of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the highest-tier level professional basketball league in Italy. The regular season will start on 2 October 2016 and will finish on 7 May 2017, with the playoffs starting on 12 May (dependent on an Italian club qualifying for the 2017 Euroleague Final Four or for the 2017 Champions League Playoffs) to finish between 16 and 22 June depending on results.^[2]

As in previous years, Molten Corporation provided the official ball for all matches.

EA7 Emporio Armani Milano are the defending champions.

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of 16 teams will contest the league, including 15 sides from the 2015–16 season and one promoted from the 2015–16 Serie A2.

Germani Basket Brescia is the promoted club from the Serie A2 Citroën after beating Fortitudo Bologna at game 5 of league's playoffs, and returns in the highest-tier of the Italian basketball league system after 28 years of absence from Serie A.^[3][4]

Brescia replace Virtus Bologna who was relegated during the previous season.

Number of teams by region

Number of teams	Region	Team(s)
5	Lombardy	EA7 Emporio Armani Milano ^LBA Germani Basket Brescia ^A2 Openjobmetis Varese Red October Cantù Vanoli Cremona
2	Campania	Juvecaserta Sidigas Avellino
1	Apulia	Enel Brindisi
	Emilia-Romagna	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia
	Marche	Consultinvest Pesaro
	Piedmont	Fiat Torino
	Sardinia	Banco di Sardegna Sassari
	Sicily	Betaland Capo d'Orlando
	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Dolomiti Energia Trento
	Tuscany	The Flexx Pistoia
	Veneto	Umana Reyer Venezia

Notes

^LBA 2015–16 LBA champion.

^A2 2015–16 Serie A2 champion.

Venues and locations

Avellino

Brescia

Milano

Sassari

Cantù

Varese

Trento

Torino

Capo d'Orlando

Caserta

Pesaro

Cremona

Venezia

Pistoia

R. Emilia

Brindisi

Location of teams in 2016–17 Lega Basket Serie A

Team	Home city	Arena	Capacity	2015–16 season
Banco di Sardegna Sassari	Sassari	PalaSerradimigni	5,000	Quarterfinals 2016 playoffs
Betaland Capo d'Orlando	Capo d'Orlando	PalaFantozzi	3,613	13th in Serie A
Consultinvest Pesaro	Pesaro	Adriatic Arena	6,119	12th in Serie A
Dolomiti Energia Trento	Trento	PalaTrento	4,360	Quarterfinals 2016 playoffs
EA7 Emporio Armani Milano	Milan	Mediolanum Forum	12,700	Serie A Champions
Enel Brindisi	Brindisi	PalaPentassuglia	3,534	10th in Serie A
Fiat Torino	Turin	PalaRuffini	4,500	15th in Serie A
Germani Basket Brescia	Brescia	PalaGeorge[5]	5,500	Serie A2 winner
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	Reggio Emilia	Land Rover Arena (Bologna)	5,721	Runners-up 2016 playoffs
		PalaBigi	3,800
Juvecaserta	Caserta	PalaMaggiò	6,387	14th in Serie A
Openjobmetis Varese	Varese	PalA2A	5,300	9th in Serie A
Red October Cantù	Cantù	PalaBancoDesio[6] (Desio)	6,700	11th in Serie A
Sidigas Avellino	Avellino	PalaDelMauro	5,300	Semifinals 2016 playoffs
The Flexx Pistoia	Pistoia	PalaCarrara	4,000	Quarterfinals 2016 playoffs
Umana Reyer Venezia	Venice	Taliercio	3,509	Semifinals 2016 playoffs
Vanoli Cremona	Cremona	PalaRadi	3,527	Quarterfinals 2016 playoffs

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Banco di Sardegna Sassari	Stefano Sardara	Federico Pasquini	Giacomo Devecchi	Eyesportwear	Banco di Sardegna, Tirrenia Navigazione
Betaland Capo d'Orlando	Roberto Enzo Sindoni	Gennaro Di Carlo	Sandro Nicević	Legea	Betaland
Consultinvest Pesaro	Ario Costa	Piero Bucchi	Giulio Gazzotti	Erreà	Consultinvest, ButanGas^1
Dolomiti Energia Trento	Luigi Longhi	Maurizio Buscaglia	Andrés Pablo Forray	Spalding	Dolomiti Energia
EA7 Emporio Armani Milano	Livio Proli	Jasmin Repeša	Andrea Cinciarini	Armani	EA7 Emporio Armani, BMW,^1 Aon^2
Enel Brindisi	Fernando Marino	Romeo Sacchetti	Marco Cardillo	Bitre Sport	Enel
Fiat Torino	Antonio Forni	Francesco Vitucci	Giuseppe Poeta	Spalding	Fiat Automobiles
Germani Basket Brescia	Graziella Bragaglio	Andrea Diana	David Moss	Erreà	Germani Trasporti, A2A
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	Maria Licia Ferrarini	Massimiliano Menetti	Pietro Aradori	Sportika	Grissin Bon, Mapei^1
Juvecaserta	Raffaele Iavazzi	Sandro Dell'Agnello	Marco Giuri	Givova	Pasta Reggia, Fortune Investment & Co.
Openjobmetis Varese	Stefano Coppa	Paolo Moretti	Daniele Cavaliero	Spalding	Openjobmetis, Teva
Red October Cantù	Dmitry Gerasimenko	Kiril Bolshakov	Craig Callahan	Macron	Red October, Intesa Sanpaolo^1
Sidigas Avellino	Giuseppe Sampietro	Stefano Sacripanti	Marques Green	Joma	Sidigas
The Flexx Pistoia	Roberto Maltinti	Vincenzo Esposito	Michele Antonutti	Erreà	The Flexx, Conad, Hitachi
Umana Reyer Venezia	Luigi Brugnaro	Walter De Raffaele	Tomas Ress	Erreà	Umana
Vanoli Cremona	Aldo Vanoli	Cesare Pancotto	Fabio Mian	Erreà	Vanoli Ferramenta

1. ^ On the back of shirt.

2. ^ On the shorts.

Managerial Changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced with	Date of appointment
Enel Brindisi	Piero Bucchi	Signed by Consultinvest Pesaro	24 April 2016[7]	Pre-season	Romeo Sacchetti	5 May 2016[8]
Consultinvest Pesaro	Riccardo Paolini	End of contract	30 May 2016[9]		Piero Bucchi	1 June 2016[10]
Red October Cantù	Sergei Bazarevich		30 June 2016[11]		Rimas Kurtinaitis	2 August 2016[12]
Red October Cantù	Rimas Kurtinaitis	Resigned	30 November 2016[13]	14th (2–7)	Kiril Bolshakov	1 November 2016[14]

Changes from 2015–16

New League's Title Sponsor

From the end of the 2015–16 season, Lega Basket Serie A has no sponsor. The Turkish brand Beko left Serie A after four years of sponsorship. Beko decided to focus just on their sponsorship of the Spanish football team Barcelona.^[15]

Rules

Each team is allowed either five or seven foreign players under two formulas:

1. 5 foreigners from countries outside the European Union
2. 3 foreigners from countries outside the E.U., 4 foreigners from E.U. countries (also including those from countries signatory of the Cotonou Agreement)

Each club can choose the 5+5 formula, that consists of five Italian players and five foreign players, and the 3+4+5 formula, with five Italian players, three foreigners from countries outside the E.U. and four foreigners from E.U. countries or "Cotonou Countries".^[16]

At the end of the season there will be a prize of €500.000,00 for the top three ranked teams, that had chosen the 5+5 formula, considering the playing time of Italian players, and €200.000,00 for those teams that will obtain the best results with their youth sector.^[17]

Regular season

In the regular season, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The eight first qualified teams will advance to the Playoffs, the last seven qualified teams will be eliminated, while the last one qualified team will be relegated and replaced by the winner of the playoffs of the second-level Serie A2 Basket. The matchdays are from 2 October 2016 to 7 May 2017.

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Qualification or relegation
1	EA7 Emporio Armani Milano	9	9	0	800	693	+107	Qualification to playoffs
2	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	9	7	2	763	726	+37
3	Sidigas Avellino	9	7	2	713	677	+36
4	Umana Reyer Venezia	9	6	3	745	723	+22
5	Juvecaserta	9	6	3	751	748	+3
6	Betaland Capo d'Orlando	9	5	4	727	697	+30
7	Enel Brindisi	9	4	5	726	720	+6
8	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	9	4	5	707	692	+15
9	Fiat Torino	9	4	5	757	764	−7
10	Germani Basket Brescia	9	4	5	718	746	−28
11	Dolomiti Energia Trento	9	4	5	685	680	+5
12	The Flexx Pistoia	9	3	6	669	714	−45
13	Openjobmetis Varese	9	3	6	694	721	−27
14	Red October Cantù	9	2	7	686	760	−74
15	Vanoli Cremona	9	2	7	701	739	−38
16	Consultinvest Pesaro	9	2	7	657	699	−42	Relegation to Serie A2

Updated to match(es) played on 27 November 2016. Source: LBA

Results

Home \ Away

SAS

ORL

PES

TRE

EA7

BRI

TOR

BRE

REG

CAS

VAR

CTU

AVE

PIS

VEN

CRE

Banco di Sardegna Sassari

86–59

96–73

78–72

70–75

82–83

Betaland Capo d'Orlando

65–71

90–77

76–71

96–53

79–76

Consultinvest Pesaro

73–78

76–63

83–87

55–60

84–78

Dolomiti Energia Trento

85–76

70–74

80–84

90–77

EA7 Emporio Armani Milano

86–77

100–80

79–71

87–81

104–70

Enel Brindisi

69–61

87–79

83–91

78–82

90–82

Fiat Torino

83–79

97–100

90–93

85–82

Germani Basket Brescia

89–90

80–97

93–88

76–56

Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia

86–80

87–80

90–77

85–79

Juvecaserta

91–86

84–67

78–75

74–65

Openjobmetis Varese

91–81

68–74

93–74

77–79

Red October Cantù

90–69

77–68

77–89

82–83

92–99

Sidigas Avellino

76–73

86–83

92–79

81–86

83–67

The Flexx Pistoia

68–69

84–78

89–81

97–64

Umana Reyer Venezia

84–69

59–76

98–92

74–62

81–73

Vanoli Cremona

72–76

69–84

82–95

87–67

Last updated: 27 November 2016
Source: Lega Basket Serie A
Colours: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after completion of each round.

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
EA7 Emporio Armani Milano	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	10	8	4	5	3	3	2	2	2
Sidigas Avellino	8	3	5	4	2	2	3	3	3
Umana Reyer Venezia	6	1	7	6	7	8	5	5	4
Juvecaserta	7	13	3	2	6	5	4	4	5
Betaland Capo d'Orlando	13	15	9	14	8	9	7	6	6
Enel Brindisi	3	11	16	15	11	7	8	8	7
Banco di Sardegna Sassari	5	10	6	8	5	4	6	7	8
Fiat Torino	9	9	10	9	13	11	10	10	9
Germani Basket Brescia	15	14	11	16	16	16	12	11	10
Dolomiti Energia Trento	14	7	2	3	4	6	11	12	11
The Flexx Pistoia	16	12	13	13	9	10	15	9	12
Openjobmetis Varese	12	4	14	10	10	13	9	13	13
Red October Cantù	11	16	12	7	12	12	14	14	14
Vanoli Cremona	1	6	8	12	15	15	16	16	15
Consultinvest Pesaro	2	5	15	11	14	14	13	15	16

Last updated: 27 November 2016
Source: Lega Basket Serie A

	Leader of the Regular Season
	Qualification to Playoffs
	Relegation to Serie A2

Statistical leaders

As of 27 November 2016.^[18]

Points

Rank	Name	Team	PPG
1.	Amath M'Baye	Enel Brindisi	20.7
2.	Marcus Landry	Germani Basket Brescia	19.4
3.	D. J. White	Fiat Torino	18.9
4.	Jarrod Jones	Consultinvest Pesaro	17.8
5.	Pietro Aradori	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	17.7

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	APG
1.	Bruno Fitipaldo	Betaland Capo d'Orlando	7.5
2.	Luca Vitali	Germani Basket Brescia	7.2
3.	Dominic Waters	Red October Cantù	7.0
4.	Chris Wright	Fiat Torino	6.4
5.	Edgar Sosa	Juvecaserta	6.1

Steals

Rank	Name	Team	SPG
1.	Corey Hawkins	The Flexx Pistoia	2.5
2.	David Moss	Germani Basket Brescia	2.1
3.	Aaron Craft	Dolomiti Energia Trento	2.1
4.	Deron Washington	Fiat Torino	1.8
5.	Joe Ragland	Sidigas Avellino	1.8

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	RPG
1.	Jarrod Jones	Consultinvest Pesaro	10.0
2.	O. D. Anosike	Openjobmetis Varese	9.5
3.	Deron Washington	Fiat Torino	9.3
4.	D. J. White	Fiat Torino	9.0
5.	Johndre Jefferson	Dolomiti Energia Trento	8.7

Blocks

Rank	Name	Team	BPG
1.	Norvel Pelle	Openjobmetis Varese	3.1
2.	Mitchell Watt	Juvecaserta	2.1
3.	Riccardo Cervi	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	1.9
4.	JaJuan Johnson	Red October Cantù	1.8
5.	TaShawn Thomas	Vanoli Cremona	1.3

Valuation

Rank	Name	Team	VPG
1.	D. J. White	Fiat Torino	24.7
2.	Amath M'Baye	Enel Brindisi	21.2
3.	Pietro Aradori	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	21.1
4.	Durand Scott	Enel Brindisi	20.6
5.	Jarrod Jones	Consultinvest Pesaro	20.4

Awards

Player of the week

Date	Player	Team	PIR
1	Stefano Tonut	Umana Reyer Venezia	35
	Aleksander Czyż	Juvecaserta
2	D. J. White	Fiat Torino	35
3	Jarrod Jones	Consultinvest Pesaro	28
	Retin Obasohan	Sidigas Avellino
4	Lee Moore	Germani Basket Brescia	31
5	Pietro Aradori	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	35
6	Bruno Fitipaldo	Betaland Capo d'Orlando	44
7	Marques Green	Sidigas Avellino	35
8	Terran Petteway	The Flexx Pistoia	46
9	Tu Holloway	Vanoli Cremona	42

Player of the month

Month	Week	Player	Team	PIR
October 2016	1–5	D. J. White	Fiat Torino	25.6
November 2016	6–9	Deron Washington	Fiat Torino	24.5

Source: LBA

Playoffs

The LBA playoffs quarterfinals are best-of-five, while the semifinals and finals series are best-of-seven. The playoffs will start on 12 May 2017 to finish between 16 and 22 June depending on result.

Serie A clubs in European competitions

Team	Competition	Progress
EA7 Emporio Armani Milano	Euroleague	Regular season
Banco di Sardegna Sassari	FIBA Champions League	Regular season
Openjobmetis Varese		Regular season
Sidigas Avellino		Regular season
Umana Reyer Venezia		Regular season

Source: ^{[19][20][21][22]}

Supercup

The 2016 Italian Supercup was the 22nd edition of the super cup tournament of the Italian basketball. It opened the season on 24 and 25 September 2016. It was contested in Milan's Mediolanum Forum.^[23]

Qualified for the tournament were league winners and cup winners EA7 Emporio Armani Milano, cup finalists Sidigas Avellino, cup semifinalists Vanoli Cremona and league finalist Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia.^[24]

EA7 Emporio Armani Milano went on to win its first Supercoppa ever beating Sidigas Avellino.

All Star Game

The league's All Star Game will be contested on 15 January 2017.^[25]

It will be organized in a match between the two All Star teams, the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest. All teams' players had been voted by the Serie A supporters.

Cup

The 49th edition of the Italian Cup will be contested between 17 and 19 Jenuary 2017.^[26] Eight teams qualified for the Final Eight were the best ranked teams at the end of the first stage of the 2016–17 Serie A season.

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External links

• Lega Basket website (Italian) Retrieved 14 June 2016