Massimo Bulleri
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| Dinamo Sassari | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| League | Lega Basket Serie A |
| Personal information | |
| Born | 10 September 1977 Cecina, Italy |
| Listed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 1999: undrafted |
| Playing career | 1996–2017 |
| Position | Point guard / shooting guard |
| Coaching career | 2017–present |
| Career history | |
Playing | |
| 1996–1997 | Sporting Club Gira |
| 1997–1998 | Bears Mestre |
| 1998 | Benetton Treviso |
| 1998–1999 | Libertas Forlì |
| 1999–2005 | Benetton Treviso |
| 2005–2008 | Olimpia Milano |
| 2008 | Virtus Bologna |
| 2008–2009 | Olimpia Milano |
| 2009 | Benetton Treviso |
| 2009–2010 | Olimpia Milano |
| 2010–2012 | Benetton Treviso |
| 2012–2013 | Reyer Venezia Mestre |
| 2013–2015 | New Basket Brindisi |
| 2015–2016 | Ferentino |
| 2016–2017 | Pallacanestro Varese |
Coaching | |
| 2017–2019 | Pallacanestro Varese (assistant) |
| 2019–2020 | Ravenna Piero Manetti (assistant) |
| 2020–2021 | Pallacanestro Varese |
| 2021–2022 | Pallacanestro Orzinuovi |
| 2022–2023 | Limoges CSP (assistant) |
| 2023–2025 | Dinamo Sassari (assistant) |
| 2025–present | Dinamo Sassari |
| Career highlights | |
As player:
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| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | |
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Massimo "Bullo" Bulleri (born 10 September 1977) is an Italian professional basketball coach and former player. During his playing career, standing at a height of 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, he played at the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is currently the head coach for Dinamo Sassari in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA).
Professional playing career
[edit | edit source]During his pro club career, Bulleri won the European-wide secondary level FIBA Saporta Cup's 1998–99 season championship, and two Italian League championships, in 2002 and 2003. He also won four Italian Cup titles, (2000, 2003, 2004, and 2005), and two Italian Super Cup titles, in 2001 and 2002. He was the voted the Italian League's MVP, in both 2003 and 2005. He was also voted the MVP of the Italian Cup, in 2005.
In 2017, Bulleri retired from playing professional club basketball.
National team playing career
[edit | edit source]Bulleri was a member of the senior men's Italian national basketball team. With Italy, he played at the 2003 EuroBasket, where he won a bronze medal, at the 2005 EuroBasket, and at the 2007 EuroBasket. He also won the silver medal with the senior Italian national team at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games.
Coaching career
[edit | edit source]After he retired from playing pro club basketball, Bulleri began working as a basketball coach. In 2017, he became an assistant coach with the Italian League club Varese. On 6 July 2019 Bulleri signed with the Italian 2nd Division club Ravenna Piero Manetti, to work with the team as an assistant coach.[1]
On 8 September 2020 Bulleri was called by Pallacanestro Varese to replace Attilio Caja as head coach; he signed for the 2020–21 season with an option for the next year.[2] Even though he managed to save the team from the relegation to the Serie A2, the option was not used and Buller left the Varese.[3]
On 23 January 2025 he became the head coach of Dinamo Sassari in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), to replace Nenad Marković.[4]
Honors and awards as a player
[edit | edit source]Pro clubs
[edit | edit source]- FIBA Saporta Cup Champion: 1999
- 4× Italian Cup Winner: 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005
- 2× Italian Supercup Winner: 2001, 2002
- 2× Italian League Champion: 2002, 2003
- 3× Italian League All-Star: 2004, 2005, 2006
- Italian League All-Star Game MVP: 2006
Italian national team
[edit | edit source]- 2001 Mediterranean Games: File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze
- 2003 EuroBasket: File:Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze
- 2004 Summer Olympic Games: File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver
Individual
[edit | edit source]- 2× Italian League MVP: 2003, 2005
- Italian Cup MVP: 2005
- Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic - Rome, 27 September 2004. The initiative of the President of the Republic.[5]
References
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- ^ Ufficiale Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana Sig. Massimo Bulleri (in Italian).
External links
[edit | edit source]- 1977 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Basket Ferentino players
- Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
- Italian basketball coaches
- Italian men's basketball players
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
- New Basket Brindisi players
- Olimpia Milano players
- Olympic basketball players for Italy
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Olympic silver medalists for Italy
- Pallacanestro Treviso players
- Pallacanestro Varese players
- Sportspeople from Cecina, Tuscany
- Point guards
- Reyer Venezia players
- Shooting guards
- Virtus Bologna players