Viktor Sanikidze became the third Georgian basketball player after Giorgi Tsintsadze and Manuchar Markoishvili, who together with his team won the gold medal of the National Championship.

"Vika" became the champion of Italy with "Montepaschi" Siena, which finished the regular season only on 5-th place, but in the play-offs, played brilliantly and won in the final series as 4: 1.

5-game series took place in the capital of Italy and the latter received the title there. The first half of the match ended in a draw (33: 33), but in the second half, the visitors played off and won with a score of 79-63.

The chief trainer of "Montepaschi" Luca Banks, who next season will head Armani's "Èmporio", has played only 4 minutes Sanikidze, and Georgian forward during this time earned 2 points and 2 rebounds.

He scored the only two-point kicks and lost the ball twice as much as the times conceded.

Highest scoring in the Sienese was Bobby Brown with 18 points, and David Moss didn't have a double-double up slightly – 11 pts, 9 rebounds.

"Montepaschi" became the champion of Italy in the seventh consecutive time (!), and in its history-in the eighth.