Manu Ginobili

Manu Ginobili
Player information
Full name	Emanuel David Ginóbili Maccari
birthday	28th July 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	Bahía Blanca , Argentina
size	198 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Shooting Guard
NBA draft	1999 , 57th Pick, San Antonio Spurs
Clubs as active
1995–1996 Andino Sport Club 1996–1998 Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca 1998–2000 Viola Reggio Calabria 2000–2002 Children Bologna 2002–2018 San Antonio Spurs
National team
1998-2016	Argentina

Manu Ginóbili medal table
Basketball (men)
Argentina
Olympic games
gold	2004 Athens
bronze	2008 Beijing
World Championship
silver	2002 Indianapolis
American Championship
bronze	1999 San Juan
gold	2001 Neuquén
silver	2003 San Juan
gold	2011 Mar del Plata

Emanuel David Ginóbili Maccari (born July 28, 1977 in Bahía Blanca ) is a retired Argentine basketball player . He last played in the North American NBA with the San Antonio Spurs , with whom he won the championship in 2003 , 2005 , 2007 and 2014 .

Ginóbili was honored in May 2008 as one of the fifty great personalities of basketball in Europe . The award was given by the Euroleague Basketball in an official ceremony in the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid , in Madrid ( Spain ).

Career

Early years

Born into a family of professional basketball players, Ginóbili started playing basketball when he was only three years old. His eldest brother, Leandro, played basketball in the Argentine league for seven years before retiring from professional sports in 2003. His other brother, Sebastián, played in both the Argentine and Spanish professional leagues. Her father, Jorge, was the coach of the Bahia Blanca club, where Manu Ginobili also learned to play basketball.

Ginobili has both Argentine and Italian citizenship. He is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English. In 2004 he married Marianela Oroño, who gave birth to twins, Dante and Nicola, on May 16, 2010.

Ginobili started his professional career at the Andino Sport Club in La Rioja in the 1995-1996 season. A year later he was sent by his team to the Estudiantes de Bahia Blanca. He played for his hometown team until the Italian league noticed him. From 1998 to 2000 he played for Basket Viola Reggio Calabria. In 1999 he took part in the NBA Draft and was chosen by the San Antonio Spurs with the 57th pick, but he did not sign a contract with the NBA team at the time . Ginobili chose Kinder Bologna and played in the Italian league for two more years. With his new team he won the Italian championship and the Euroleague in 2001 and the Italian Cup in 2001 and 2002. After winning the Euroleague, he was named Final Four MVP . In the 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 seasons he was also elected MVP of the Italian league.

San Antonio Spurs (since 2002)

Ginobili signed his first contract with the San Antonio Spurs only after the FIBA ​​Basketball World Cup in 2002, where he was elected to the All-Tournament Team along with Yao Ming , Dirk Nowitzki and Peja Stojaković . In his first NBA season, 2002-2003, he came behind Steve Smith from the bench. At the beginning of the season he had to sit out some games due to an injury, but at the end of the season he was elected to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team . Ginobili made his big breakthrough in the playoffs. He participated in every game, improved his performance on the field compared to the regular season and the Spurs defeated the Phoenix Suns , Los Angeles Lakers , Dallas Mavericks and the New Jersey Nets on their way to the 2003 NBA Championship. Ginobili became then voted Argentina's Sportsman of the Year .

In the 2005 season he was also the so-called " All-Star " when he was selected for the 2005 NBA All-Star Game in the selection of the Western Conference . In the 2006/07 season he came in the election for the best sixth man in the NBA in second place behind Leandro Barbosa. In the following year 2007/08 he was able to win the Sixth Man Award , the award for the best bank player. He received 123 of 124 possible first-place votes. He received a total of 615 out of a possible 620 points. In 2011 he was elected to the West's selection for the second time in his career.

After winning the title in his rookie season, "Manu" won three more championships with the Spurs ( 2005 , 2007 and 2014 ). Coach Gregg Popovich uses him mainly as a sixth man from the bench, as he effectively maintains the flow of the starting lineup and acts as a second playmaker, even with reduced playing time. In 2008 and 2011 Ginobili was elected to the "All-NBA Third Team" of the 15 best players of a season.

On August 27, 2018, Ginobili announced his retirement after 16 years in the NBA, ending his successful time with the San Antonio Spurs.

National team

He is the guarantee for the upswing and the success of the Argentine national basketball team at the championships of recent years. At the 2002 Basketball World Cup in Indianapolis , he and his team were the first to defeat the USA team, which was peppered with NBA stars, and ultimately became vice world champion in this tournament.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he succeeded in this feat again when Argentina defeated the USA in the semifinals. On August 28, 2004 Argentina became Olympic champion in the final against Italy . Ginóbili was also voted the best player (MVP: Most Valuable Player ) of the Olympic tournament.

In the game for third place in the 2006 World Cup, however, he had to admit defeat to the US selection, with Ginóbili personally being selected into the all-tournament team . He won his second Olympic medal in Beijing in 2008 when he achieved bronze.

Web links

Commons : Emanuel Ginóbili  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manu Ginobili on: NBA website; New York, NY, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
• Manu Ginobili on: Basketball Reference website; Philadelphia, PA, 2000-2018. Retrieved October 24, 2018 (in English).
• Emanuel Ginóbili - player profile on Euroleague.net (in English).
• usa.manuginobili.com - Official site (in English).
• Manu Ginóbili - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} nba.com: Player biography ( memento of the original from May 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 50 Contributors, Honored in Madrid ( Memento of July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b} espn.com: The 30 best international players in the NBA , April 27, 2007
4. ↑ New father Ginobili welcomes twin boys ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 17, 2010  
5. ↑ nba.com: career statistics ( memento of the original from June 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Guardian sport: Manu Ginobili, four-time NBA champion with Spurs, retires aged 41. August 27, 2018, accessed on August 27, 2018 (English).