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28/06/2025
Redazione Napoli Basket
Napoli Basketball announces that it has signed a three-year agreement with Stefano Gentile. The play/guard (192 cm) was born in Maddaloni (Caserta) on September 20, 1989.
Gentile previously played on the Italy youth team in 2007 where he participation in the Under 18 European Championship. He made his debut on the senior national team on December 16, 2012, playing in the All Star Game against the selection of the best foreigners in the Serie A championship.
His debut among the professionals took place with Juvecaserta Basket in the 2005-06 season, playing the following year in Imola. He made his debut in Serie A with Olimpia Milano in the 2007-08 season. In the 2008-09 season he was sold to Ostuni Basket in the B1 championship, and the following year he moved to Trento. In 2010 he moved to Fastweb Casale Monferrato, where he stayed for two years and won promotion to Serie A before being relegated the following year to Legadue. In 2012 his return to Caserta was made official where he stayed for a year before moving to Cantù for another two seasons. In 2015 he signed a two-year contract with Pallacanestro Reggiana where he won the Italian Supercup. At the end of the 2016 season he moved to A2 with Virtus Bologna where he won promotion to Serie A. The following season he remained with the “V Nere”. In 2018 he signed with Dinamo Sassari with whom he played six exciting seasons becoming leader and captain of Banco di Sardegna.
At the end of the 2023-24 season he moved to Trapani where he contributed to the promotion of the Sicilians to Serie A1, and took part in the amazing championship in Serie A reaching the play-offs with the team coached by Repesa.
Statement by Stefano Gentile:
“I am honored and proud to have been selected to be part of this new course of Napoli Basket. I have to thank the company with President Rizzetta, General Manager Laughlin and Coach Magro for choosing me. It is a great responsibility, but at the same time a great opportunity for me to get back into the game and embrace this new challenge. I am sure that everything that is being built around the company, the team and the city, is something that is being done with great enthusiasm, just like our goal which is to want to build a team, like the city of Naples, that never gives up, that fights and that always aspires to the best by winning as many games as possible, having fun and creating enthusiasm.”