July 16, 2013			Italian League approves dates for 2013 - 2014 season
			The Assembly of the Italian League ( Lega Basket ), convened in Bologna yesterday to approve the list of 16 teams that will play in the Serie A championship next seaason. Teams will be the same as the 12-13 season with Pistoia replacing Biella. The club season in Italy will start on Tuesday October 8 with the Beko Supercoppa: a single game that will face Montepaschi Siena and Cimberio Varese. The championship will start the following weekend, October 12-13, with the Final 8 of the Beko Coppa Italia scheduled for February 7-9 ans the Beko All Star Game in mid-April ( Sunday 13 ). The play off format will have quarter finals played in a best-of-5 format, with both the semifinals and the Finals in best-of-7. In case that the Finals go to the very last game and an Italian team has played the Final 4 of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague in Milan, game 7 of the Finals will be played on June 29. The clubs also approved to renew the deal with RCS Sport, the company organizing Lega events, through 2016 To find out more on the Italian Basketball League, please click here. Lega Basket Serie A is also on twitter at @LegaBasketA