Smuggled tapes and a love of basketball: How one man brought NBA broadcasts to Italy
Forty years ago, Andrea Bassani arrived in Italy with tapes of a Lakers vs. Celtics game as part of an effort to introduce Europe to the NBA. |!| Lakers
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