Scafati Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as Harem Scafati, is an Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 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...

 club from the town of Scafati

Scafati

Scafati is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of southern Italy.-Geography:Scafati is situated on the river Sarno.Sotto il ponte sul fiume per entrare in paese il fiume si divide in 3 rami,1 principale e 2 secondari...

, Campania

Campania

Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

. The club plays in LegADue

LegADue

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

, the second level of Italian basketball; it was relegated

Promotion and relegation

In many sports leagues around the world, promotion and relegation is a process that takes place at the end of each season. Through it, teams are transferred between divisions based on their performance that season...

 from Lega Basket

Serie A (basketball)

Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 after finishing last in the 2007-08 season

Serie A (basketball) 2007-08

The Serie A FIP 2007-08 was the 86th edition of the top-level Italian basketball championship. The regular season began on September 30, 2007 and ended on April 27, 2008.The 18 participating teams played each other in home and away matches...

. (Although Scafati finished last due to a 7-point deduction for administrative irregularities, it would have been relegated without the deduction.)

History

Basketball in Scafati dates to 1949, when a group of students founded a local team named Silvio Pellico after an Italian patriot

Silvio Pellico

Silvio Pellico was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot.-Biography:Silvio Pellico was born at Saluzzo . He spent the earlier portion of his life at Pinerolo and Turin, under the tuition of a priest named Manavella. At the age of ten he composed a tragedy inspired by a translation of the...

 of the 1800s. The team merged with rival club Savoia in 1955, forming Scafatese Basket, which was renamed Centro Sportivo Scafatese in 1969. The team played in the lower regionally-based divisions of Serie C and Serie D until the early 1990s when the club, under the presidency of Aniello Longobardi, climbed up the national basketball system pyramid to reach Serie A

Serie A (basketball)

Lega Basket Serie A is the highest level club competition in Italian professional basketball where play determines the national champion. The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 30 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals and semifinals series are best-of-five, and...

 in 2006.

The club has also been known as Longobardi Scafati (2000-2001) , Rida Scafati (2001-2003), Eurorida Scafati (2003-2006) and Legea

Legea

Legea is a sportswear company founded in 1990, in Pompei, Italy. It is one of the most popular brands among Italian amateur football teams, now heavily expanding also among top division professional clubs....

 Scafati (2006-2008).

Arena

Today, the team plays its home games in the PalaMangano (named after former head coach Massimo Mangano), a 3,700 arena.

2009-2010 Roster

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5		Goss JR Philip Alexander	Guard
6		Fabio Ruini	Guard
7		Leonardo Busca	Point Guard Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...
8		Rick Apodaca Rick Apodaca Rick Apodaca is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Apodaca has played in the NCAA, USBL, NBDL, and the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico with the Arecibo Captains, Bayamón Cowboys, and San German Athletics. Apodaca has played internationally in Poland, Italy and Turkey...	Guard
10		Maurizio Ferrara	Point Guard Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...
12		Ariel Filloy	Point Guard Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...
14		Giovanni Fattori Giovanni Fattori Giovanni Fattori was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. He was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects. In his middle years, inspired by the Barbizon school, he became one of the leading Italian plein-airists, painting landscapes,...	Forward
17		Donzell Rush	Center Center (basketball) The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...
18		Sotiris Gioulekas Sotiris Gioulekas Sotiris Gioulekas is a Greek professional basketball player. The forward currently plays for Scafati Basket. He has previously played for Gymnastikos S. Larissas, Olympia Larissas BC and Societa Veroli Basket....	Forward
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Notable players

Domenico Morena 2 seasons: '00-'02 Greg Newton

Greg Newton

Greg Newton was center for the Duke Blue Devils basketball team from 1994-1997. Newton was Team Captain in his senior season. He was a member of the Canadian National Team, that finished seventh in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.Newton averaged 7.6 points per game for his career...

 2 seasons: '00-'02 Andre McCollum 1 season: '00-'01 Todor Stoikov 1 season: '00-'01 Randolph Childress

Randolph Childress

Randolph Childress is an American former professional basketball player who last played in Italy for Cestistica San Severo...

 2 seasons: '01-'03 Jason Osborne 1 season: '01-'02 Michael Campbell 1 season: '01-'02 Curtis Staples

Curtis Staples

Curtis Staples is a former American basketball player who played from 1994 to 1998 for the University of Virginia. He was a sophomore starter on the State Championship Patrick Henry Patriots team in 1992. He is best known for holding the all-time NCAA record for career three-point field goals, at 413...

 1 season: '01-'02 Cristiano Masper 3 seasons: '02-'05 Lamont Barnes 1 season: '02-'03 Jason Smith 1 season: '02-'03 Chandler Thompson 1 season: '02-'03 Maximiliano Stanic 3 seasons: '03-'06 James Collins

James Collins (basketball)

James Edgar Collins is an American professional basketball player whose last team was Indesit Fabriano of the Italian second division in 2006/07 season....

 1 season: '03-'04 Vincenzo Esposito

Vincenzo Esposito

Vincenzo Esposito is an Italian former professional basketball player. He is 1.94 m tall and played as a shooting guard...

 1 season: '03-'04 Brandon Brantley 1 season: '03-'04 Joshua Powell 1 season: '03-'04 Darryl Wilson 2 seasons: '04-'06 Harold Jamison

Harold Jamison

Harold Sherill Jamison is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for BC Politekhnika-Halychyna in Lviv, Ukraine. He is 6'9" and plays the power forward and center positions....

 2 seasons: '04-'06 Jamal Robinson 1 season: '04-'05 Lucas Javier Victoriano 1 season: '05-'06 Rick Apodaca

Rick Apodaca

Rick Apodaca is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Apodaca has played in the NCAA, USBL, NBDL, and the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico with the Arecibo Captains, Bayamón Cowboys, and San German Athletics. Apodaca has played internationally in Poland, Italy and Turkey...

 1 season: '06-'07 Norman Nolan 1 season: '06-'07 Nikolaos Dimitriu 1 season: '07-'08 Hector Romero

Héctor Romero

Héctor Orlando Romero Rivas is a Venezuelan professional basketball player currently active for Snaidero Udine. He also is a member of his country's national team and took part in the 2002 FIBA World Championship...

 1 season: '07-'08 Valerio Spinelli 1 season: '07-'08 Derrick Tarver 1 season: '07-'08 Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen

Michael Dahl Andersen , is a professional Danish basketball player. He is 2.13 m in height and he plays at the position of center. He currently plays with the pro club AEK Athens BC.- Prokom Sopot:...

 1 season: '07-'08 Marcus Hatten

Marcus Hatten

Marcus Hatten is an American Basketball player currently playing for Dexia Mons-Hainaut, Belgium....

 1 season: '07-'08 Dimitri Lauwers 3 seasons: '05-'08 Luigi Datome

Luigi Datome

Luigi Datome is an Italian basketball player currently signed with Pallacanestro Virtus Roma.At 202 cm, he plays the small forward position.-References:...

 2 seasons: '06-'08 Frankie Williams

Frank Williams (basketball)

Frank Lowell Williams is a former American professional basketball player. As a point guard, Williams starred at both the high school and collegiate levels, and played briefly in the NBA....

 1 season: '07-'08 Rubén Wolkowyski 1 season: '07-'08 Steponas Babrauskas

Steponas Babrauskas

Steponas Babrauskas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who plays for Lietuvos Rytas.His first achievement in basketball came at the 2003 FIBA U-19 World Championships in Greece, where Babrauskas and the Lithuanian U-19 National Basketball Team won silver medals...

 1 season: '07-'08 Mike Lenzly

Mike Lenzly

Mike Lenzly is a British professional basketball player. He is a 1.89 m tall point guard-shooting guard. He is currently playing with ČEZ Basketball Nymburk in the Czech Republic.-College career:...

1 season: '08-'09

External links

• Official Website