Marco Belinelli New Sky Sports Basketball Ambassador
The great season of Italian basketball starts from the Frecciarossa Supercoppa 2025: tomorrow, Saturday, September 27, and Sunday, September 28, appointment on Sky and streaming on NOW for the first act of the new season of the LBA championship.
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On the occasion will also be announced the new extraordinary champion who officially joins the Sky team: Marco Belinelli. He will be Ambassador of the new Sky Sport Basket channel, special guest in the top matches of the year and protagonist of some special events that will be revealed during the season. Marco is the only Italian to have won the NBA title, with San Antonio in 2013-2014, winner of the three-point contest of the 2014 All Star Weekend, three-time Italian champion (with Fortitudo Bologna in 2004-2005 and Virtus Bologna in 2020-2021 and 2024-2025) and winner of the 2021-2022 Eurocup (with Virtus Bologna), to which he adds 154 appearances with the national team jersey. Belinelli perfectly represents the identity of the new Sky Sport Basket channel, having starred in Serie A, the Euroleague and the NBA, and completes the great quintet of champions in the basketball storytelling, with Chicca Macchi, Andrea Meneghin, Davide Pessina and Matteo Soragna.
This weekend at the Unipol Forum in Assago four great teams are competing for the 2025 Supercoppa Frecciarossa: starting tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. on the dedicated Sky Sport Basket channel and on Sky Sport Uno for the pregame coverage of Dolomiti Energia Trento-Germani Brescia, live from 6 p.m. The commentary will be by Geri De Rosa and Laura Macchi. The second semifinal Virtus Olidata Bologna-EA7 Emporio Armani Milano, on the other hand, is scheduled for 8:45 p.m., with pre-match live from 8 p.m. on Sky Sport Basket. Telecast by Andrea Solaini and Andrea Meneghin.
On Sunday, September 28, pregame from 5 p.m. for the final between the two winning teams from the semifinals, live from 6 p.m. on Sky Sport Basket and Sky Sport Uno. The commentary will be by Geri De Rosa and Andrea Meneghin.
Pre- and postgame studies will be conducted by Giulia Cicchiné, with the participation of Matteo Soragna. Sunday will also feature Flavio Tranquillo and Davide Pessina Pessina and the entire Sky Sport Basket team for the launch of the new channel and the new season. The interviews with the protagonists will be edited by Gaia Accoto.
The three games will also be broadcast free-to-air on Cielo and streamed on skysport.it. Constant updates throughout the weekend also on Sky Sport 24 and on the official Sky Sport social accounts.
GREAT BASKET ON SKY SPORT – The Italian Supercoppa represents the first official act of a season that promises spectacle in Sky’s House of Sports. The new Sky Sport Basket channel brings together Italian, European and U.S. basketball in one destination for fans. Serie A – LBA (with 60 regular season games, 2 per round and always the big match of the day; 2 games per round of the playoff quarterfinals; all semifinals and all finals. In addition, all the games of the next 3 seasons of the Italian Cup) is one of the important pillars of Sky’s offer dedicated to basketball, which also includes EuroLeague and EuroCup, exclusively for the next 3 seasons and, from October, the new NBA gramdo challenges. All in one channel: Sky Sport Basket.
The PROGRAMMING OF THE ITALIAN SUPERCOPPA ON SKY, IN STREAMING ON NOW AND IN CLARITY ON CIELO
Saturday, September 27
Semifinals:
Dolomiti Energia Trento-Germani Brescia, live on Sky Sport Uno, Sky Sport Basket and Cielo at 6 p.m.
Virtus Olidata Bologna-EA7 Emporio Armani Milano, live on Sky Sport Basket and Cielo at 20.45
Sunday, September 28
Final, live on Sky Sport Uno and Sky Sport Basket and Cielo at 6 pm
