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Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna S.p.A. announced that it has reached an agreement with Ismael Bako.

Bako was born in Leuven, Belgium, on October 10, 1995. A 210cm center, he began his career at the Leuven Bears in Belgium in 2012 and remained in his hometown until 2017. In the 2017/18 season he signed with Antwerp where he won the Belgian Cup and was named MVP of the competition. Also with Antwerp, he also plays in the 2019 Basketball Champions League Final Four and is included in the best quintet of the tournament.

Later, the move to ASVEL, in France, where he won French Championship and French Cup. In the season just ended he played with Manresa’s jersey, finishing with 10 points and 6 rebounds in Liga ACB and 8.7 points and 6 rebounds in the Basketball Champions League, a competition in which he reached the Final Four of the Tournament for the second time. Bako ended the season with the Spanish team with a 16-point, 11-rebound performance in Game 2 of the playoffs against Spanish champion Real Madrid.

A staple of the national team since 2016, in the last two victories against the Serbian national team he put up a 14+11 double-double in the game played in November and a 17-point, 6-rebound performance in the win last July 3.