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Italian basketball player
Diego Flaccadori
Flaccadori with Olimpia Milano in 2023
No. 21 – Olimpia Milano
PositionPoint guard / Shooting guard
LeagueLBA
EuroLeague
Personal information
Born (1996-04-05) 5 April 1996 (age 28)
Seriate, Italy
NationalityItalian
Listed height6 ft 4.75 in (1.95 m)
Listed weight177 lb (80 kg)
Career information
Playing career2014–present
Career history
2014–2019Aquila Trento
2019–2021Bayern Munich
2021–2022→ Aquila Trento
2022–2023Aquila Trento
2023–presentOlimpia Milano
Career highlights and awards

Diego Flaccadori (born 5 April 1996) is an Italian professional basketball player for Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He stands 195 cm (6’4¾") tall, and he can play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions.

Professional career

Flaccadori came through the youth ranks of Excelsior Pallacanestro Bergamo, before transferring to Basket Treviglio, where he made his debut for the club's men's team in the amateur Italian third division during the 2013–14 campaign. He played 26 games in his first year in men's basketball, averaging 2.5 points a contest.

Flaccadori then joined Dolomiti Energia Trento of the professional Italian top-flight level league Serie A in August 2014. In his first season with the team, he saw the court in 34 games in the Italian League, scoring 2.8 points per outing. In the 2015–16 season, he marked his debut on the European club stage, participating in the European 2nd tier Eurocup competition with Trento.

He was an early entry candidate for the 2016 NBA draft, but later removed his name from the list.

On 31 July 2019 Flaccadori signed a two-year contract with Bayern Munich of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague.

On 20 July 2021 Flaccadori returned to his former team Aquila Trento on a one-year loan.

National team

Flaccadori was part of the Italian junior national teams on several occasions. He competed in the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, guided the Italian Under-18 national team to gold at the 2014 Albert Schweitzer Tournament, he was picked by the website Eurobasket.com for their unofficial 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship's Second Team the same year, was named to Eurobasket.com's unofficial 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship All-Second Team, and also played at the 2015 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

EuroLeague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2019–20 Bayern Munich 22 0 8.5 .356 .143 .727 .5 .6 .1 .1 1.9 0.6
2020–21 22 4 5.3 .370 .375 .800 .5 .7 .1 — 1.2 0.7
2023–24 Olimpia Milano 26 8 13.9 .375 .286 .889 1.0 1.1 .7 — 4.6 2.8
Career 70 12 9.5 .370 .266 .837 .7 .8 .3 .0 2.7 1.5

EuroCup

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2015–16 Aquila Trento 22 4 15.1 .427 .375 .846 1.1 1.0 .6 — 5.8 4.5
2017–18 16 3 20.9 .292 .122 .795 2.1 2.3 .9 — 6.4 4.4
2018–19 8 2 26.5 .419 .261 .727 3.0 3.1 1.4 .3 10.3 10.8
2021–22 15 15 27.1 .381 .289 .820 3.1 2.9 .8 — 10.4 8.7
2022–23 16 15 27.4 .420 .415 .831 3.6 4.6 1.2 — 12.9 14.2
Career 77 39 22.4 .387 .304 .807 2.4 2.6 .9 .0 8.8 8.0

Domestic leagues

Year Team League GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2013–14 Italy BCC Treviglio Serie A2 20 9.1 .389 .250 .429 1.1 .9 .4 .1 2.6
2014–15 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 25 6.9 .415 .393 .833 .8 .4 .3 — 2.8
2015–16 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 33 15.4 .361 .354 .804 1.7 .9 .5 .1 5.0
2016–17 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 44 21.7 .435 .358 .764 2.2 1.6 .8 .2 9.2
2017–18 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 37 21.7 .372 .326 .737 1.7 1.6 1.0 .1 8.8
2018–19 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 33 21.4 .357 .290 .734 2.4 1.4 .9 .1 8.2
2019–20 Germany Bayern Munich BBL 23 13.4 .388 .250 .793 1.0 1.3 .5 .1 4.2
2020–21 Germany Bayern Munich BBL 24 19.9 .458 .350 .750 2.0 3.8 .8 .1 7.2
2021–22 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 30 31.4 .447 .385 .831 3.9 3.7 1.1 .1 15.3
2022–23 Italy Aquila Trento LBA 33 28.9 .417 .321 .792 4.0 3.3 1.1 .1 13.2
2023–24 Italy Olimpia Milano LBA 39 17.3 .382 .313 .757 1.3 1.7 .6 .1 5.6

References

  1. "Arriva Flaccadori, il roster è al completo". Aquila Basket Trento. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  2. "Diego Flaccadori | Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro". www.legapallacanestro.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  3. "Colpo Aquila: in arrivo il golden boy Flaccadori - Sport - Trentino Corriere Alpi". Trentino Corriere Alpi. Archived from the original on 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  4. "Legabasket". 195.56.77.208. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  5. "FLACCADORI, DIEGO - Welcome to Eurocup". www.eurocupbasketball.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  6. "Thirty-three international early-entry candidates withdraw from Draft". NBA.com. Archived from the original on 2019-03-19. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
  7. "Flacca Is Back!". aquilabasket.it (in Italian). 20 July 2021.
  8. "Diego Flaccadori profile, U16 European Championship Men 2012 | FIBA.COM". FIBA.COM. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  9. "Albert Schweitzer Tournament ends after plenty of treats". FIBA.COM. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  10. "European Championships U18 Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket.com". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  11. "World Championships U19 Basketball, Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings - eurobasket.com". www.eurobasket.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-14. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
  12. "Diego Flaccadori profile, U20 European Championship Men 2015 | FIBA.COM". FIBA.COM. Retrieved 2016-03-30.

External links

Dolomiti Energia Trento current roster
  • Head coach: Galbiati
  • Assistant coaches: Dusmet
  • Bongi
Italy national basketball team – FIBA World Cup 2023 Qualifiers
Italy
Coach: Sacchetti
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