The Giuliani celebrate the return to the European cups with a uniform that pays homage to the match that the 22 -year -old Michael played in 1985 in the Stefanel shirt after his first season in NBA. In collaboration with his brand
Michael Jordan and Basketball Trieste. A combination that may surprise, but that has deep roots. In 1985 a 22 -year -old MJ landed in Italy for a stage of the Nike tour launched his first Air Jordan. America is starting to love its phenomenon: MJ won the NCAA title with North Carolina, the Olympic gold in 1984 and closed its first NBA season with the Bulls, crowned by the Rookie Prize of the year.
On that occasion he wears the shirt of the then Stefanel Trieste in a friendly with Juvecaserta: he should have played a time with both teams, but remains on the field only with the Giuliani, dragged by his unmistakable competitiveness. The challenge ends with the victory of Trieste 113-112 and Michael scores 41 points. That game enters the legend for another reason: after a flight of his, MJ closes a dash that shatters the scoreboard shattered. Those of the palachiarbola are not solid as the NBA ones, and such a thing have never seen it. An episode that will go down in history as “The Shattered Backboard”, the only time in his career in which Jordan breaks a basket.
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We come to the present. Forty years later, Basketball Trieste celebrates that company and its ambitions: the new jerseys for the Basketball Champions League will be a reproduction in the colors and design of that iconic uniform, in black, orange and white tones with a prestigious collaboration with Jordan Brand, this year in Italy also with the Trento and Udine championship shirts. After more than twenty years of absence, Trieste returns to the European cups. With the president and owner since 2024 Paul Matiasic, American lawyer with Istrian family roots, the club has inaugurated a new dimension.
After the last convincing newly promoted season, embellished with the Italian Cup Final Eight, he built a competitive market, starting with the new technician Israel Gonzalez, from 2021 to 2025 head of the Alba Berlin coach. Among the players stands out, for Charisma and Palmares, Juan Toscano-Cinta, NBA champion with Golden State in 2022 The celebratory shirt is the symbol of dreams and ambitions.
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