Olimpia-Trapani, Antonini frontally attacks referees

There was great expectation for the big match between Olimpia Milano and Trapani Shark, which was eventually won by the hosts in a comeback thanks to a great rebound signed by Mirotic.

With the game still in progress, the president of the Sicilians Valerio Antonini è perè vented himself on X with a venomous post, decidedly explicit. "It was all planned. Repeated fouls suffered at Alibegovic Horton and Eboua. Some outrageous. Major fouls not whistled. Not even a very good opposing coach could have studied it better".

The number one of the Sicilian club, a revelation of this first part of the season, finally concluded: "President Petrucci, è is this the future of basketball you told me about? If è this will get me out of it soon. I am scandalized".

Elections for the role of president of the Italian Basketball Federation for the four-year Olympic period 2025-2028 meanwhile have awarded Gianni Petrucci, who thus remains in the role he already occupied until now since 2013 (previously he was president between 1992 and 1999, before becoming, from '99 to 2013, president of Coni). Petrucci received 70.83 percent of the vote, compared with 23.96 for Guido Valori (5, however, blank ballots).

In the words pronounced by Petrucci himself after the reappointment, there is no lack of a bitter outburst: "This success has a special flavor, because é this election campaign è started with so many nastinesses that I sincerely did not explain to myself – he said -. I have always been in my place, I believe that my election depends on the quality, fairness and competence shown by my entire team, which è was elected entirely".