By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net
After consulting for the Lakers and serving as an assistant coach for the Spurs, Ettore Messina returns to the NBA, this time as a consultant for the Atlanta Hawks, the Italian newspaper “Repubblica” revealed.
Messina is reunited with coach Quin Snyder. The current Hawks coach served under Messina as an assistant in CSKA Moscow before becoming an NBA head coach.
Messina left Olimpia Milan this summer, after serving as coach and president of basketball operations. He is expected to divide his time next season between Atlanta and serving as a basketball colour commentator for Italian television.
The 66-year-old Italian mastermind is a legend in European basketball, having won four EuroLeague titles and leading Milan to the Final Four more recently in 2021.
He has also won seven Italian championship titles. He was linked with the possibility of working on the new teams in Rome, which are aiming for the EuroLeague and NBA Europe; however, he ended up directly to the NBA.
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