Viola Reggio Calabria
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Nuovo Basket Viola Reggio Calabria is an Italian professional basketball team from Reggio Calabria that has been established in 1998 and is currently defunct. It has gone bankrupt after the 2006/07 season, in which it played on the second highest level of Italian basketball - Serie A2. It got relegated from Serie A in 2005/06 season. It is considered a successor to Viola Reggio Calabria team that played in Serie A in the 1980s and 1990s. Their best result was 6th place in the 1992/93 season.
During history, due to sponsorship deals, the team has been known as Banco Popolare Reggio Calabria (1983-1984), Opel Reggio Calabria (1985-1986), Standa Reggio Calabria (1987-1989), Panasonic Reggio Calabria (1990-1993), Pfizer Reggio Calabria (1993-1995), Tris Reggio Calabria (2003-2004), Eurofiditalia Reggio Calabria (2004-2005).[1]
[edit] Notable past players
Kim Hughes 5 seasons: '83-'88
Donato Avenia 9 seasons: '84-'90, '92-'93, '96-'98- Gustavo Tolotti 12 seasons: '86-'92, '93-'99
- Joe Bryant 1 season: '86-'87
- Dan Caldwell 4 seasons: '87-'91
- Alessandro Santoro 12 seasons: '88-'00
- Giampiero Savio 2 seasons: '88-'90
- Robert Lock 1 season: '88-'89
- Phil Zevenbergen 1 season: '88-'89
- Roberto Bullara 7 seasons: '89-'96
- Charles Jones 1 season: '89-'90
- Dean Garrett 3 seasons: '90-'93
- Michael Young 2 seasons: '90-'92
- Tiziano Lorenzon 2 seasons: '91-'93
- Marco Spangaro 4 seasons: '92-'96
Alexander Volkov 1 season: '92-'93- Ken Barlow 1 season: '93-'94
- Kevin Pritchard 1 season: '93-'94
- Alessandro Fantozzi 1 season: '94-'95
- Shaun Vandiver 1 season: '94-'95
- Randy White 1 season: '94-'95
- Wendell Alexis 1 season: '94-'95
- Lance Miller 1 season: '95-'96
- Yamen Sanders 1 season: '95-'96
- Brian Oliver 3 seasons: '96-'97, '98-'00
- Mike Brown 2 seasons: '96-'98
Diego Fajardo 2 seasons: '97-'98, '03-'04-
Jay Larranaga, son of Jim Larranaga 2 seasons: '97-'98, '04-'05 - Dedric Willoughby 1 seasons: '97-'98
Manu Ginóbili 2 seasons: '98-'00- Brent Scott 2 seasons: '98-'99, '00-'01
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Jeff Nordgaard 1 season: '98-'99 
Christian Welp 1 season: '98-'99- Alejandro Montecchia 3 seasons: '99-'02
- Brian Shorter 1 season: '99-'00
- Kevin Thompson 1 season: '99-'00
- Carlos Delfino 2 seasons: '00-'02
- Mark Anthony Davis 1 season: '00-'01
Thierry Gadou 1 season: '00-'01- Leandro Palladino 1 season: '00-'01
Nicolas Mazzarino 4 seasons: '01-'05- John Eubanks 3 seasons: '01-'04
Benjamin Eze 3 seasons: '01-'04- Anthony Williams 3 seasons: '01-'03, '06-'07
- Alan Tomidy 2 seasons: '01-'03
- Brian Evans 1 season: '01-'02
- Anthony Tucker 1 season: '01-'02
- David Vaughn 1 season: '01-'02
- Titus Ivory 2 seasons: '02-'04
Giorgos Sigalas 1 season: '03- Lavell Blanchard 2 seasons: '03-'05
- Bryce Drew 1 season: '04-'05
- Terrence Rencher 1 season: '04-'05
- Casey Shaw 1 season: '04-'05
Aleksandar Ćapin 1 season: '05-'06- A. J. Guyton 1 season: '05-'06
- Jelani McCoy 1 season: '05-'06
- Vincent Yarbrough 1 season: '05-'06
- Ismaila Sy 2 seasons: '01-'02 & '06-'07
- Thierry Zig 1 season: '05-'06
- Joseph Bunn 1 season: '06-'07
- German Sciutto 1 season: '06-'07
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