Patty Mills

Patrick Mills ( born August 11, 1988 in Canberra) is an Australian basketball player. The 1.83 m tall point guard is active since 2012 for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. His father comes from the Torres Strait Islanders, his mother belongs to the Aborigines, he is also related through his father with the two-time Olympian in basketball Danny Morseu.

After his time at the Australian Institute of Sport Mills played from 2007 to 2009 for the crew of the Saint Mary's College in California. In the 2009 NBA Draft he was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers. This took him under contract, after a break in the midfoot during the pre-season but they gave him in the meantime to Idaho Stampede in the NBA D -League from. In his first season for the Blazers Mills completed only ten games during the regular season and three playoff games, while significantly regularly came into use in the following season.

Due to the lockout in the NBA played Mills 2011 for some time in the NBL for the Melbourne Tigers. End of the year he joined the CBA to China, where he was but was released by the Xinjiang Flying Tigers after only a short time in the dispute over the treatment of a muscle injury. In March 2012, he was then taken by the San Antonio Spurs under contract.

Mills played first time in 2007 for the Australian national team and was nominated for the 2008 Olympics, where he was surprisingly top scorer of his team. Also at the 2010 World Cup, he took part.

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