Pablo Prigioni

Pablo Prigioni
Player information
birthday	17th May 1977
place of birth	Río Tercero, Argentina
size	186 cm
position	Point guard
Clubs as active
1996–1998 Belgrano San Nicolás 1998–1999 CA Obras Sanitarias 1999–2001 Baloncesto Fuenlabrada 2001–2003 CB Lucentum Alicante 2003–2009 TAU Cerámica Vitoria 2009–2011 Real Madrid 2011–2012 Caja Laboral 2012–2015 New York Knicks 2015 Houston Rockets 2015– 2016 Los Angeles Clippers 2016–2017 Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 00000
National team
2003-2014	Argentina
Clubs as coaches
000002017 Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz

Pablo Prigioni medal table
Basketball (men)
Argentina
Olympic games
bronze	2008 Beijing
American Championship
silver	2003 San Juan
silver	2007 Las Vegas
bronze	2009 San Juan
gold	2011 Mar del Plata

Pablo Prigioni (born May 17, 1977 in Río Tercero , Córdoba ) is an Argentine basketball coach and former player. The 1.86 m tall point guard played much of his career in Spain before joining the North American National Basketball Association at the unusually old age of 35 . He was also a member of the Argentine national team since 2003 . He also has Italian and Spanish citizenship.

Career

With TAU Cerámica Vitoria , Prigioni reached the final of the ULEB Euroleague in 2005 , and in 2006 and 2007 he was elected to the All Euroleague Second Team . He also won the Spanish championship in 2008 and the Spanish Cup in 2004 and 2006, and in 2006 he was named the most valuable player in the Final Eight series. As part of the Argentine national team, Prigioni reached the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup and won the bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games .

In the summer of 2012, at the ripe old age of 35, he finally ventured into the NBA to the New York Knicks . After moderate success, he switched to the Houston Rockets in February 2015 . From summer 2015 he was under contract with the Los Angeles Clippers . After returning to Vitoria the following year, Prigioni announced his retirement in early 2017. For the 2017/18 season he became the club's head coach, but resigned after a short time.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pablo Prigioni announces retirement Euroleague.net, January 9, 2017
2. ↑ Prigioni steps down as Baskonia coach Euroleague.net, October 25, 2017

Web links

Commons : Pablo Prigioni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pablo Prigioni - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• ACB.COM: Pablo Prigioni - Profile on the website of the League ACB ( Spanish )
• Pablo Prigioni - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Pablo Prigioni in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )