Ettore Messina

Ettore Messina
	Ettore Messina (2021)
Olimpia Milano
Position	Head coach
League	LBA; EuroLeague
Personal information
Born	30 September 1959 (age 65); Catania, Italy
Coaching career	1976–present
Career history
As coach:
1976–1980	Reyer Venezia (youth)
1980–1982	Basket Mestre (youth)
1982–1983	A.P.U. Udine (assistant)
1983–1989	Virtus Bologna (assistant)
1989–1993	Virtus Bologna
1992–1997	Italy
1997–2002	Virtus Bologna
2002–2005	Benetton Treviso
2005–2009	CSKA Moscow
2009–2011	Real Madrid
2011–2012	Los Angeles Lakers (consultant)
2012–2014	CSKA Moscow
2014–2019	San Antonio Spurs (assistant)
2015–2017	Italy
2019–present	Olimpia Milano
Career highlights and awards
	As head coach: 4× EuroLeague champion (1998, 2001, 2006, 2008); FIBA Saporta Cup champion (1990); 3× VTB United League champion (2008, 2013, 2014); 6× Russian League champion (2006–2009, 2013–2014); 7× LBA champion (1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2022–2024); 4× Russian Cup winner (2005–2008); 9× Italian Cup winner (1990, 1999, 2001–2005, 2021, 2022); 3× Italian Supercup winner (2002, 2020, 2024); 3× Gomelsky Cup winner (2012–2014); 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008); FIBA EuroStar (1998); European Coach of the Year (1998); 2× EuroLeague Coach of the Year (2006, 2008); VTB United League Hall of Fame (2019); 4× Russian League Coach of the Year (2006–2009); 3× LBA Coach of the Year (1998, 2001, 2005); LBA Hall of Fame (2008); 2× Italian Coach of the Year (1990, 1993); As assistant coach: NBA All-Star Game (2016); LBA champion (1984); 2× Italian Cup champion (1984, 1989);
	FIBA Hall of Fame as coach
Men's basketball
Representing Italy
EuroBasket
Mediterranean Games

Ettore Messina (born 30 September 1959) is an Italian professional basketball coach who is the head coach of Olimpia Milano of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has won four EuroLeague championships as a head coach. Messina is regarded as one of the best European basketball coaches of all time, having been named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors in 2008.

He was named the Italian League's Best Coach three times, in the years 1998, 2001, and 2005. Furthermore, he has been named EuroLeague's Coach of the Year twice, in 2006 and 2008. He was inducted into the Italian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008, and into the Russian VTB United League Hall of Fame, in 2019. Messina also previously worked with the San Antonio Spurs, as an assistant coach for Gregg Popovich, from 2014 to 2019.