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  • Chapter 1: Early Life, Childhood, and Teenage Years · Chapter 2: Early Professional Career.

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    Manu Ginobili

  • Manu Ginobili By: Kale George

  • Manu is born • Emanuel David Ginobili was born on July 28th, 1977 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.

  • Family • Parents: Jorge and Raquel. Jorge was a coach at a club in Bahia Blanca and taught his children about the game of basketball. • Has 2 brothers, Sebastian and Leandro • Both played professional basketball in Argentina and Spain

  • Early Years of Basketball Ginobili made pro debut in in Argentina for the Andino Sport Club team of La Rioja in 1995. He then played for his hometown team until he moved to Europe to join the Italian league. Played 1998-2000 with Basket Viola Reggio Calabria, an Italian league team.

  • Getting Good • Entered 1999 NBA Draft and was selected 57th overall by San Antonio Spurs. • Didn’t sign with spurs at that time and returned to Italy to play for Kinder Bologna • Won the Italian Championship and the Euroleague, winning 2001 Euroleague MVP as well as Italian league MVP from 200-2002

  • Finally a

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    Manu Ginobili's talent is timeless

    Editor's note: This story originally appeared on ESPNDeportes.

    BUENOS AIRES --

    Manu Ginobili has reached the NBA Finals once again, his fifth in 12 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. More than anything, the Argentinean shooting guard has made it clear that he embodies the paradigm that every athlete should aspire to, without actually meaning to do so and regardless of the valuable legacy that this ensures.

    This has happened because Ginobili has all the prerequisites needed to belong among the select few who make history in sports: He has had a consistently high-quality level of play, was a key member of each and every team that he has played for and managed to maintain both virtues with the kind of staying power made possible by an iron will. The years go by, but against all odds the cruel and relentless passage of time doesn´t seem to punish him like it does other athletes, even those with even more distinguished careers than his.

    The qua

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    As the San Antonio Spurs entered the AT&T Center for what many assumed would be their gods game of the årstid, a grim undertone played beneath the surface.

    Manu Ginobili may be playing the sista game of his lengthy NBA career.

    The first part of the equation was decided — decisively — when the Warriors swept the Spurs for the first time since the 2000-01 årstid in the Western Conference Finals. Ginobili started Game 4, his first uppstart of the season, and scored San Antonio’s first bucket. The Spurs would have needed 50 more points from him to keep up without Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker.

    Still, Ginobili did his best with 15 points and seven assists. When it was over, it sure looked and sounded like a finale.

    Should Ginobili decide to hang it up after these playoffs, as the second domino to fall after Tim Duncan and preceding Parker (ruptured quad), he’d have a fantastic career to look back on.

    After all, at 39 years old having played 15 seasons in the NBA — all for the sam