Many NBA fans watched the game commenting on Twitter how hard the life of the commentators assigned to the Milwaukee Bucks would be, who also added the long and complicated surname of Sandro Mamukelashvili to the two Antetokoumpo. If they copied from Biella, they could easily simplify it in “Sandrino” who really made his debut among the professionals on the Italian night between Tuesday and Wednesday, in the first season which coincided with a clear victory over the Brooklyn Nets of Harden and Durant. In 127-104 his mark on the scorers’ table is missing, but the seven minutes played (0/1 shooting, one rebound, one assist) impressed the observers: “The coach put him at the beginning of the second quarter, not when the game is closed. Interesting », commented a fan, also on Twitter. It is the sign of how much the champion team believes in the boy who is a little Georgian and a little New Yorker weaned in the nursery of Pallacanestro Biella. His contract for now is a two-year “two way”, ie with a limited number of games available in the NBA and the rest of the season to be spent in the D-League, in the satellite team of the Bucks in the professional development league. But last year the blue Nico Mannion had the same agreement with Golden State, who then, on the way, carved out an increasingly important space for himself.
In Biella, for now, they rub their eyes with pride. And not only in the shadow of the Mucrone. Also via social media, the former playmate of the Treviso nursery Nicola Artuso (now in Oderzo in C Gold) said it all in a few lines: «In 2016 I played against Biella in the Under 18 and a guy tried to crush me on the head. In order not to make a fool of myself, I made him do it by pulling his arm down. Today I look at Milwaukee-Brooklyn and find out that guy is playing with the Bucks and his name is Mamukelashvili. ‘