B8 Summit 2025 Vilnius: Daniele Baiesi (Olimpia Milano)

The Benas Podcast

Benas Matkevicius

August 12, 202549 min

Basketball

B8 Summit 2025 Vilnius: Daniele Baiesi (Olimpia Milano)

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Daniele is a long-time friend of mine and a highly successful basketball front office executive in Europe. Daniele started his career as a journalist and worked his way up to become widely known as the best expert in his field as the sports director in Eurolegue clubs. After working for Brose Bamberg & FC Bayern Munich, he currently started his new venture with Olimpia Milano. Prior to becoming a sports director in Bamberg he was working as international scout for the Detroit Pistons. Most recently he spent his time consulting the Brooklyn Nets with draft prospects and potential free agents from Europe.

Today, we had a wide-ranging conversation of his experiences at different levels and Daniele shared the lessons he learned in his role with the Euroleague clubs as well as learning from the best in Detroit, i.e. Joe Dumars. We spoke about the communication challenges he had to face when he had to juggle the head coach and the president during the season as well as plenty of other situations that arise which required insightful decision-making. A truly unique mind.

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Topics:

0:00 Intro

2:10 First tasks at Olimpia Milano11:30 Michelangelo Effect

16:50 Biggest sacrifice

20:00 Challenges as a young professional

26:05 Communication Triangle

35:00 Observing Practices

39:20 Program Development / Impact

44:20 Q&A

#OlimpiaMilano #Euroleague #Milano #ItalyBasketball #Italy #Bamberg #Munich #FCBayern #SportsDirector #Management #FrontOffice

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