Through the 2007–08 season, 18 teams competed; however, in September 2008, two clubs, Basket Napoli (not related to the current NSB Napoli, which moved from Rieti to Naples after the 2008–09 season) and Orlandina, were forcibly relegated from the professional ranks for financial irregularities and were not replaced for the 2008–09 season.
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Developed in European basketball, the move is generally accepted to have been brought to the NBA by Lithuanian Šarūnas Marčiulionis, and was popularized in North America by Manu Ginóbili, an Argentine who arrived in the NBA from the Italian league.
During the summer of 2008 signed an important agreement with the French club Pau-Orthez, but was cut after three games, then he go back in Italy and then agreeing with Napoli, which debuted in Serie A at the end of the season he recording an average of 11.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.
In 1995, the 1995 McDonald's Championship came to London and the Sharks were entered as the host team, mixing with the elite of world basketball including the NBA's Houston Rockets, Spanish League giants Real Madrid and Bologna of the Italian League amongst others.