Manu Ginóbili

Emanuel David Ginóbili ( born July 28, 1977 in Bahía Blanca) is an Argentine professional basketball player. He plays in the U.S. NBA with the San Antonio Spurs, with whom he twice in 2003, 2005 and 2007 won the American Basketball Championship.

Emanuel Ginóbili was honored in May 2008 as one of the fifty major personalities of the sport of basketball in Europe. The ceremony was performed by the Euro League Basketball at an official ceremony at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).

Career

Early years

Ginóbili, who comes from a family of professional basketball players, started at the age of just three years with basketball. His eldest brother, Leandro played seven years in the Argentine basketball league before retiring in 2003 from professional sports. His other brother, Sebastian, played both in Argentina and in the Spanish professional league. Her father, Jorge, was the coach of the Association of Bahia Blanca, in the Manu Ginobili also learned to play basketball.

Ginobili has dual Argentine and Italian citizenship. He is fluent in Spanish, Italian and English. In 2004 he married Marianela Oroño that a pair of twins, Dante and Nicola, brought on 16 May 2010 to the world.

His professional career started Ginobili 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 was aware of him. From 1998 to 2000 he played for Basket Viola Reggio Calabria. In 1999 he took part in the NBA Draft and was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 57th pick, but he signed at the time a contract with the team from the NBA. Ginobili opted for Children Bologna and played two more years in the Italian league. With his new team he won the 2001 Italian Cup and the Euro League and in 2001 and 2002 the Italian Cup. After winning the Euro League, he was named the Final Four MVP. In the seasons 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, he was also voted the MVP of the Italian League.

San Antonio Spurs (since 2002)

Ginobili signed his first contract with the San Antonio Spurs after the FIBA Basketball World Championship in 2002, when he was elected along with Yao Ming, Dirk Nowitzki and Peja Stojakovic in the All- Tournament team. In his first NBA season, 2002-2003, he came up behind Steve Smith of the bank. At the beginning of the season he had an injury a few games expose, but at the end of the season he was selected second team in the NBA All - Rookie. In the playoffs, Ginobili managed the big breakthrough. He took part in every game, improved his performance on the field as compared to the regular season and the Spurs defeated the Phoenix Suns, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Dallas Mavericks, and was the New Jersey Nets on their way to the NBA championship in 2003. Ginobili subsequently elected to Argentina's athlete of the year.

In the 2005 season he was also the so-called " All-Star " when he was chosen for the NBA All- Star Game in 2005 in the selection of the Western Conference. In the season 2006/ 07 he came to vote for the best sixth man in the NBA at # 2 behind Leandro Barbosa. Then in the following year 2007/ 08 he won the Sixth Man Award. He received 123 of 124 possible first -place votes. In total, he received 615 of 620 possible points. In 2011 he was elected for the second time in his career in the selection of the West.

National

He is the guarantor of the recovery and the success of the Argentine national basketball team at the championships in recent years. In the Basketball World Championship 2002 in Indianapolis he beat his team the first team with the NBA star-studded team in the USA and was ultimately in this tournament runners-up.

At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 he achieved this feat a second time when Argentina defeated the United States in the semifinals. On August 28, 2004, Argentina was in the final against Italy Olympic champion. Ginóbili has also been the best player ( MVP: Most Valuable Player ) selected the Olympic Tournament.

In the third place match of the 2006 World Cup but he had to admit defeat of the U.S. selection, where Ginóbili was elected person to the All- Tournament team. His second Olympic medal he won in Beijing in 2008 by reaching the bronze rank.