Olimpia Basket Pistoia, also known as Maltinti Pistoia after one of its historic sponsors, was an Italian

Italy

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 professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team from the town of Pistoia

Pistoia

Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...

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It played in Serie A

Serie A (basketball)

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, the Italian top-level professional league, in the 1990s. Their best result was 8th place in the 1992/93 season. It participated in the Korać Cup

Korac Cup

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 in the 1996/97 season. After the 1998/99 season, when they were relegated from Serie A, the team went bankrupt and is currently defunct. Pistoia is currently represented in LegADue

LegADue

Legadue or Lega2 is the second-highest division of professional club basketball in Italy since 2001-2002 season...

 by another team, Carmatic Pistoia

Pistoia Basket 2000

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The team was established in 1965 and, due to sponsorship deals, was also known as Kleenex Pistoia (1988-94), Madigan Pistoia (1994-96), Rolly Pistoia (1996-97) and Mabo Pistoia (1997-99).

Notable past players

Leon Douglas

Leon Douglas

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 4 seasons: '87-'91 Joe Bryant

Joe Bryant

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 2 seasons: '87-'89 Andrea Daviddi 2 seasons: '87-'89 Claudio Crippa 10 seasons: '88-'98   Ron Rowan

Ron Rowan

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 3 seasons: '89-'92 Luca Silvestrin 3 seasons: '89-'92 Charles Jones

Charles Jones (basketball, born 1962)

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 1 season: '90'-'91 Dan Gay 3 seasons: '91-'93, '97-'98 Massimo Minto 5 seasons: '92-'93, '94-'98 Andrea Forti 3 seasons: '92-'95 Joe Binion

Joe Binion

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 2 seasons: '92-'94 Francesco Vescovi 2 seasons: '93-'94, '97-'98 Tod Murphy

Tod Murphy

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 1 season: '93-'94 Adrian Caldwell

Adrian Caldwell

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 1 season: '93-'94 Stephen Howard

Stephen Howard (basketball)

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 1 season: '94-'95 Marty Embry 1 season: '94-'95 Irving Thomas

Irving Thomas

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 2 seasons: '95-'97 Davide Ancilotto 1 season: '95-'96 Ken Barlow

Ken Barlow (basketball)

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 1 season: '95-'96   Derrick Taylor 1 season: '96-'97 Thomas Burrough 1 season: '96-'97 Matteo Soragna

Matteo Soragna

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 1 season: '96-'97 Vincenzo Esposito

Vincenzo Esposito

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 1 season: '97-'98 Ian Lockhart

Ian Lockhart

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 1 season: '97-'98 Ed Stokes

Ed Stokes

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 1 season: '97-'98 James Forrest 1 season: '98-'99   Travis Mays

Travis Mays

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 1 season: '98-'99 John Turner

John Turner (basketball)

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1 season: '98-'99