Olimpia Milano, Gigi Datome and Kyle Hines confide in each other.

The words of Gigi Datome

Gigi Datome and Kyle Hines confided in Euroleague TV.

“I continue to love the game. I really love the game, being on the court, competing, building something important,” said the Sardinian. “When I was a kid, if someone had told me that I would be 35 years old in Milan after winning a title at the Final Four, cups and so on, and being captain of the national team, I would have … signed with blood. Still as a player, maybe I remember very much all the finals I lost and all the things I could have done more.”

“It’s strange how we remember defeats, or how we’re more influenced by defeats than we are by victories sometimes,” Hines added. “It’s a little strange, but that’s just our nature and the nature of the business, I suppose. The nature of how we are and how we’re wired.”