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Ettore Messina

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Born
1959 (66 years old)
Catania, Italy

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Manager

Status
Coaching

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Ettore Messina (born 30 September 1959) is an Italian professional basketball executive and former coach who last coached Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). 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 one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.

He was named the Italian League's Best Coach three times, in the years 1998, 2001, and 2005. Furthermore, he has been named EuroLeague's Coach of the Year twice, in 2006 and 2008. He was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008, and into the Russian VTB United League Hall of Fame, in 2019. Messina also previously worked with the San Antonio Spurs, as an assistant coach for Gregg Popovich, from 2014 to 2019.




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Supercoppa Italiana di… 2025	Supercoppa Italiana di… 2024	Lega Basket 2023-2024	Lega Basket 2022-2023
Coppa Italiana di… 2021-2022	Lega Basket 2021-2022	FIBA Hall of Fame 2021	Supercoppa Italiana di… 2020
VTB United League 2013-2014	VTB United League 2012-2013	VTB United League 2008	EuroLeague 2007-2008
EuroLeague 2005-2006	Coppa Italiana di… 2004-2005	Coppa Italiana di… 2003-2004	Coppa Italiana di… 2002-2003
Lega Basket 2002-2003	Supercoppa Italiana di… 2002	Coppa Italiana di… 2001-2002	Lega Basket 2001-2002
Coppa Italiana di… 2000-2001	EuroLeague 2000-2001	Coppa Italiana di… 1998-1999	EuroLeague 1997-1998
Lega Basket 1997-1998	Lega Basket 1992-1993	Coppa Italiana di… 1989-1990	FIBA Saporta Cup 1989-1990
Supercoppa Italiana di… 1988-1989	Coppa Italiana di… 1983-1984	Lega Basket 1983-1984

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2019-2025

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1983-1989 Assistant Manager	1989-1993 Manager	1992-1997 Manager	1997-2002 Manager
2002-2005 Manager	2005-2009 Manager	2009-2011 Manager	2011-2012 Assistant Manager
2012-2014 Manager	2014-2019 Assistant Manager	2015-2017 Manager

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