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Ginóbili played for Andino Sport Club, Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca, Basket Viola Reggio Calabria, and Kinder Bologna before joining the San Antonio Spurs in 2002, where he remained until his retirement in 2018. He also represented Argentina internationally across multiple FIBA World Championships and Olympic Games.
Ginóbili won four NBA championships, all with the San Antonio Spurs, in 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014. He was part of the Spurs' Big Three alongside Tim Duncan and Tony Parker.
Ginóbili was announced as a first-ballot inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in April 2022.
Ginóbili led Argentina to a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, where he averaged 19.3 points and 3.3 assists per game and was named the FIBA Olympics Most Valuable Player. Argentina became the first team other than the United States to win the Olympic basketball tournament in 16 years, and as of 2025 remains the only team in Olympic history to have eliminated the United States men's national basketball team.
Ginóbili is widely credited with popularizing the Euro step in the NBA, a two-step finishing move used when driving to the basket, though he was not the first player to use it in the league.
Ginóbili was born on the 28th of July 1977 in Bahía Blanca, a city in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He comes from a family of basketball players; his father Jorge coached at a local club, and his older brothers Leandro and Sebastián both played professionally. Ginóbili is of Italian descent, holds both Argentine and Italian citizenship, and speaks Spanish, English, and Italian.