ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF BASKETBALL COMPETITIONS IN ITALY
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https://doi.org/10.31110/2616-650X-vol12i5-014Keywords:
professional sport, basketball, competition, system, changes, developmentAbstract
The issues of professional basketball development have been the subject of scientific discussion by experts on several occasions, but they are primarily focused on studying North American professional basketball. Much less information can be found on the development of competitions and basketball in general in Europe. However, this is a significant and systematically different segment of basketball development worldwide. Objective: to analyze and summarize the evolution of basketball competitions in Italy, focusing on the pivotal role of the Lega Basket Serie A. The research was based on studying scientific and popular science sources of information, and they were indexed in the Scopus scientific and metric database. The keywords for the search in the databases were professional basketball, basketball clubs, history, and competition systems. The materials selected for analysis concerned the formation and development of the basketball competition system in historical and current contexts. The basketball development in Italy indicates the leading positions of teams and the organizational approach to forming the competition system. Today, it has pronounced signs of professionalism. The first step was the creation of Italy's Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) in 1920, a milestone that marked the beginning of a new era in Italian basketball. Later (1936/37 season), the second level of Italian basketball - Series B - appeared in the structure of Italian basketball. However, the position of Series B was shifted due to the emergence of Series A2, which was organized in 1974 and became the second level in the structure of leagues. Basketball competitions in Italy have acquired a modern look since 2014. Italian basketball was divided into three levels - Series A1, Series A2, and Series B with specific rules for rotating teams depending on their results in a particular season. The total number of teams that played in Serie A is 99, seventeen of which became champions. Currently, 16 teams play in Serie A, and only one team is relegated to a lower division at the end of the season. It is worth noting that Lega Basket Serie A is considered the third most elite basketball league in the world after the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Spanish ACB league. Many Italian teams have contracts with the best athletes in world basketball, including Mike D'Antoni, Tony Kukoc, Carlton Myers, Manu Ginobili, Gianluca Basile, and others. Italian basketball teams have also dominated continental championships (Euroleague competitions - more than ten times).
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