Amedeo Della Valle

Amedeo Della Valle

Della Valle with Reggio Emilia
No. 00 – Olimpia Milano
Position	Point guard / Shooting guard
League	LBA EuroLeague
Personal information
Born	(1993-04-11) April 11, 1993 Alba, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Listed height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Career information
High school	Findlay Prep (Henderson, Nevada)
College	Ohio State (2012–2014)
NBA draft	2014: undrafted
Playing career	2009–present
Career history
2009–2011	Junior Casale Monferrato
2014–2018	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia
2018–present	Olimpia Milano
Career highlights and awards
All-EuroCup First Team (2018) EuroChallenge champion (2014) Serie A All-Star (2014) 2× Italian Supercup champion (2015, 2018) Italian Supercup MVP (2015) EuroBasket U-20 MVP (2013)
Medals Men's basketball Representing Italy FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship 2013 Estonia

Amedeo Della Valle (born April 11, 1993) is an Italian professional basketball player for the Olimpia Milano of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He attended Findlay Prep in Henderson, Nevada before spending two seasons playing college basketball for the Ohio State University.

High school career

Wanting to develop his basketball in a different way, he moved to the United States in 2011, to Findlay Prep high school in Henderson, Nevada. There, he was a starter in their National High School Invitational victory in 2012, breaking the school record for three pointers in a season with 66.

College career

This caught the eye of several colleges and, after graduating, he signed a letter of intent to play for Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA Division I, choosing them over scholarship offers from Arizona and Texas A&M. The only player recruited that year by Ohio State, Amedeo took some time to adapt to the rigours of college basketball, especially the physical side having never done weights in the past, he was exclusively used as a bench player in his freshman season. Having put on weight for his sophomore season he started earning more game time although he stayed a bench option, he notably was decisive in overturning an 18-point, second-half deficit to beat Nebraska in the quarter-finals of the Big Ten Tournament in what is regarded as his best game for the team. After Ohio State's elimination in the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament against Dayton he announced his intention to return to Italy to play professional basketball.

College statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2013	Ohio State	15	0	7.2	37.5	38.5	50.0	1.47	0.26	0.26	0.4	2.5
2014		33	0	11.9	34.7	32.4	65.8	1.76	0.18	0.21	0.24	4.0
Career		48	0	9.55	36.1	35.45	57.9	1.61	0.22	0.23	0.32	3.25

Professional career

Della Valle returned to Italy, joining Serie A and EuroCup-playing side Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia declaredly because of the team's policy of trusting young Italian players, signing a contract until 2019. During his career Della Valle was named LBA All-Star (2014), Italian Supercup MVP (2015) and All-EuroCup First Team (2018) and he won the EuroChallenge (2014) and the Italian Supercup (2015).

On June 16, 2018, the president of Olimpia Milano, Livio Proli, said the club reached an agreement with Della Valle for the 2018–19 season. On June 22, 2018, Olimpia Milano officially announced Della Valle as new player.

International career

Della Valle started playing for the youth squads of the Italian national team, first with the Under-16's in 2009. He notably won the gold medal with the U20's at the 2013 European Championship where he was an important contributor winning the MVP award.

He was called up to the squad that would take part in EuroBasket 2015 to start on 5 September.

Career statistics

Domestic leagues

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	PPG	Points per game
2P%	Two-point field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	BPG	Blocks per game
SPG	Steals per game	TOPG	Turnovers per game	Bold	Career high

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	PPG	2P%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	BPG	SPG	TOPG
2013–14	Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia	1	0	7.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2014–15		49	5	22.7	9.3	.436	.335	.824	2.4	1.2	0.1	1.1
2015–16		45	18	26.3	12.4	.421	.368	.837	2.6	2.4	0.0	1.2
2016–17		30	30	28.9	15.2	.437	.424	.891	2.4	1.9	0.1	0.9
2017–18		26	26	29.6	14.6	.438	.301	.905	3.0	3.0	0.1	1.1
Career		151	79	26.1	12.2	.432	.362	.860	2.6	2.0	0.1	1.1

Personal life

His father is Carlo Della Valle Template:It icon, who had a career in the first division, he also was a guard noted for compensating his lack of athleticism with excellent technique.

Amedeo originally had no plans of going abroad to play, but a holiday in Miami with his mother in 2006 motivated him to move to the U.S. for lifestyle and athletic reasons.

Della Valle, a crowd favourite at Ohio State University due to his atypical look and personality, unsuccessfully ran for student-body president in a less than serious campaign in 2014, promises such as official Amedeo snow days took him to fifth place.

"La Faccia Cattiva di Amedeo Della Valle", a Facebook page with almost 13.000 followers and a clothing brand, is based on his trademark three-pointer celebration. [1]