Gianmarco Tamberi jumps (also) to the basket in the NBA: “My childhood dream”

Whenever he sees a wedged ball, Gianmarco Tamberi loses his head. She thinks back to when he caressed her for the first time, only four years old. And it was love at first sight. Yes, because in the life of the champion from the Marches, before high jump, there was the basketball: learned the fundamentals with the tank tops of Robur Osimo and of Printingwhile following live, alongside dad Marco and his brother Gianluca, the match ofAurora Jesi.

Young promise and unleashed fan, who at 16 years old however, he decides, a wise choice, to turn towards athletics. Where they arrive immediately excellent results, already at the junior level. But basketball remains there, in a reserved portion of his heart. Unscratchable. So much so that in 2017, a year after the serious injury which prevented him from flying to the Rio Olympics, he trained for a week with the Siena team, even taking part in a friendly pre-season.

Repeated experience in 2019 with theUrania Milan. “I could talk for hours about how important it is for me to take hold the ball into wedges whenever possible, “he explained on social media at the time. “It frees my mind, excites me, makes me feel alive. Many do not understand why take these risks for me, despite being a high-level sportsman. Few have understood that if I got where I got, it is also thanks to basketball“.

Here, done this premiseit is easy to imagine how Tamberi reacted to call from the NBA who asked him to participate in the Celebrity Gamethe match between vip basketball fans that opens theAll Star Weekend Of Clevelandthe eagerly awaited appointment of American basketball that gathers the best basketball players around and culminates with the very famous All Star Game Sunday. “AND the best news I have received in my life, ”he wrote on Instagram.

“It still doesn’t seem true to me, I’m lucky I was selected from twenty people all over the world, ”added dai USAwhere he flew together with his inseparable fiancée, Chiara Bontempi, who takes it back while already in the hotel room is enhanced with a light dribble. “These days I often watch my past, when I was little. To my dreams, to the choices made. but yet here I am, to live what I now thought it was impossible“.

He will be coached by Dominique WilkinsNBA legend, and will have rappers as companions Anuel AA And Jack Harlowthe mayor of Cleveland, the songwriter Anjali Ranadivethe football player Myles Garrettthe phenomenal Crissa Jacksonsinger Kane Brown and the actress Tiffany Haddish. “You will probably see a big boy with shining eyes, legs shaking and a big smile like that of a few months ago ». FromOlympic gold toAll Star Weekend.

Baby dreams.

The Celebrity Game is scheduled on the night between Friday and Saturday and airs from 1am on Sky Sport Uno and Sky Sport NBA.