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Daniele is a long-time friend of mine and a highly successful basketball front office executive in Europe. Daniele started his career as a journalist and worked his way up to become widely known as the best expert in his field as the sports director in Eurolegue clubs. After working for Brose Bamberg & FC Bayern Munich, he currently started his new venture with Olimpia Milano. Prior to becoming a sports director in Bamberg he was working as international scout for the Detroit Pistons. Most recently he spent his time consulting the Brooklyn Nets with draft prospects and potential free agents from Europe.

Today, we had a wide-ranging conversation of his experiences at different levels and Daniele shared the lessons he learned in his role with the Euroleague clubs as well as learning from the best in Detroit, i.e. Joe Dumars. We spoke about the communication challenges he had to face when he had to juggle the head coach and the president during the season as well as plenty of other situations that arise which required insightful decision-making. A truly unique mind.

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Topics:

0:00 Intro

2:10 First tasks at Olimpia Milano11:30 Michelangelo Effect

16:50 Biggest sacrifice

20:00 Challenges as a young professional

26:05 Communication Triangle

35:00 Observing Practices

39:20 Program Development / Impact

44:20 Q&A

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Vincent Collet is a house-hold name in the world of European Basketball...especially when it comes to FIBA competitions. Vincent's achievements with the French National Team are second to none! His teams won 4 Eurobasket medals, 2 world cup medals & 2 Olympic medals between 2011 - 2024. His success with the national team is as unique as it gets and rich of experiences of working with stars at the highest level.

Vincent came to Vilnius on July 8th to talk about different topics surround his success as well as the youth system in France when players get developed through the federation's program at INSEP.

Today's Topics:

0:00 Intro

3:40 Kinexon

6:20 Working with the Cleveland Cavaliers

16:30 INSEP & National Team

28:24 New Generation / Mindset

34:00 Criticism & Communication

40:00 Benching Rudy Gobert

45:00 Q&A

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Kostas is a long time friend of mine and a 3x Euroleague champion in his own right and currently the Head of Performance at Olimpia Milano. He last worked at Fenerbahce since 2022 under Dimitris Itoudis and later Sarunas Jasikevicus and recently signed with Ettore Messina's team in Milano!

He started his career in Europe at Olympiacos in 2006 and has been rolling through Europe ever since!Kostas is the best expert in his field of athletic performance and conditioning for athletes, he also worked with athletes such as Theo Papaloukas and Sofoklis Schortsanitis in the past. He came to Vilnius on July 8th to talk at the B8 Summit 2025 about his field and covered a variety of topics from his field. We talked about the general problematic in all clubs when it comes to communication after injuries occur as well as the mechanics of an achilles injury and much more, check it out!

Today's Topics:

0:00 Intro

1:10 ESCCA Summit

2:50 Sacrifice for Achievement

9:20 Decision-making process / Information

18:30 Load Managment during season

24:30 Injury Peak-times / Summer Load

32:30 Achilles Injury / Mechanics

36:45 Chain of commands after injury

44:30 Q&A

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