Turin Basketball, club’s retort not long in coming: controversy remains heated

Replying to the news circulated in recent days, the Basket Torino club has denied rumors of negotiations related to the sale of the sports title, confirming its commitment even for the next season of the A2 Series. In a note, the club outlined its future prospects, reaffirming its commitment to continue its activity in the Piedmontese capital.

“Basket Torino communicates that interlocutions and initiatives are currently underway aimed at guaranteeing regular sports continuity,” reads the statement released on Saturday. “The club also specifies that, to date, no negotiations aimed at transferring the sports activity to other cities have ever been initiated or undertaken. Any news spread in the press or on social media in this sense is without any basis.”

“Basket Torino finally informs that it has regularly started the procedures for the registration of the team to the A2 Series championship, in compliance with the expected timing and procedures. The company will provide any relevant updates through its official channels,” the club concludes in its note.

Fan concern had mounted after news circulated in Italian basketball circles of a 600,000-euro offer made to Piedmontese club patron David Avino for the sale of the Serie A2 sports title. An indiscretion that comes amid a particularly eventful period from a political-sporting point of view for Italian basketball, given the sale of the title of Vanoli Cremona to the association that will bring Serie A back to Rome and the unknowns about the future of Trieste and Brescia.