Carlos Delfino

Carlos Francisco Delfino ( born August 29, 1982 in Santa Fe) is an Argentine professional basketball player who stands in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks under contract. He is 1.98 m tall and can be used as a shooting guard or small forward.

Career

After two years in the Argentine championship Delfino moved to Italy, where he played a total of 4 years. His greatest achievement in this period was to reach the Euro League final in 2004 with Skipper Bologna.

He then moved to the Detroit Pistons, who had already selected him in the 2003 draft, entered the NBA. After he had already suffered a serious knee injury after a short time, had Delfino expose several months. The Pistons moved without him in the finals of the NBA, but were subject to almost 3:4 with the San Antonio Spurs. 2006 Detroit reached the Conference Finals. Despite improvements in its statistical values ​​remained Delfino substitute. In the 2007/2008 season he played for the Toronto Raptors, then he moved to Russia to BK Khimki. After a season in which the final of the Euro Cup was achieved Delfino returned to the NBA and signed with the Milwaukee Bucks. For the Bucks Delfino played three years and moved to the end of his contract within the League to the Houston Rockets. For the Rockets Delfino came mostly as a relief from the bank, but could not as they had hoped to prevail in the rotation. After the season, the Rockets broke the contract with Delfino on prematurely.

National

2004 Delfino was in his first major tournament in the Argentine national team Olympic champion. At the 2006 World Championship, he reached the 4th place with Argentina. His second Olympic medal won Delfino in Beijing in 2008 by the victory in the match for 3rd place