Argentina - Argentines in the NBA

The argentine basket made headway after a hard work of local training. With a powerful national league and a wide “foreign league” competing in the most important countries of the world. (Greece, Italy and Spain), in the last 5 years, Argentine team is in the elite of the World Basket by getting the world sub championship in Indianapolis 2002, the golden medal in the Olympic Games of Athens 2004 (he will defeat the golden one in Bejin next year) and the fourth position of the world championship in Japan last year. And in the present time, it is occupying the position number 2 of the world for FIBA (International Federation of Basket), it is ranked between the “Dream Team” in the Unites States and Spain (the current champion of the world).

Finally, the most famous argentine players in Basket are shining in the strongest league of the world: NBA. for the first time in history, the country has six of its best players playing in the American basket team. This achievement helps the team to take up a new position over the second giant of South American Basket, Brazil. (nowadays, he is number 18 in the world, with 3 players in the NBA). This is a review of the achievement of the argentine players and their present in one of the most difficult competitions.

The golden generation

Emanuel Ginobili

There is no doubt that Manu is the best argentine player in the history. In 1998, he started playing in Italy and in 2003, San Antionio Spurs hired him and from this moment, he got three of the four championships where he took part.

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Carlos Francisco Delfino

He began his career in Olimpia of Venado Tuerto. After an excellent play, in 2000 he migrated to Italy where he played during almost seven years until the so expected progress of a Basket player: the NBA.

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Andrés Nocioni

His professional life began in Racing Club in Argentina in 1995. Then, he was in the Spanish league in 1999 where he played during four seasons or more. At that moment, Chicago Bulls, the team where Michael Jordan played, called him to take part of the ra

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Luís Scola

He began in the well-known Ferro Carril Oeste Club. After three years, he left the country and went to Europe. At the beginning of the year, he started playing in the NBA becoming in the sixth argentine player most important of the world.

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Fabricio Oberto

From the prestigious Atenas de Córdoba, he went to the old continent where he played first in Greece and then in Spain. In 2005, he flew to San Antonio Spurs where his friend and compatriot, Emanuel Ginobili was waiting for him.

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Walter Herrmann

Another player from Santa Fe who began his career in Olimpia de Venado Tuerto. In 2006, he did his debut in the Charlotte Bobcats and one year later, he was chosen as the best rookie of March.

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