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Ettore Messina

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Born
1959 (65 years old)

Birth Place
Catania, Italy

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Manager

Status
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Ethnicity
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Olimpia Milano

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Italian Lega Basket

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Ettore Messina (born 30 September 1959) is an Italian professional basketball coach who is the head coach of 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.

Career Honours

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

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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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