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2 unusual facts about Mens Sana Basket


Mens Sana Basket

"Montepaschi" is an internationalized short form for the name of the club's principal sponsor, the Siena banking company Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

The basketball club's parent multi-sports club, Polisportiva Mens Sana, founded in 1871, claims to have been the first sports club in Italy to play and organize basketball; asserting that it did so in 1907, just sixteen years after James Naismith invented the sport, in 1891.



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