Curated category
2002 FIBA World Championship players
- Dirk NowitzkiDirk Werner Nowitzki was born on the 19th of June 1978 in Würzburg, West Germany. He grew up as a very tall child who stood above his peers by a foot or more…
- Pau GasolOn the 6th of July 1980, Pau Gasol Sáez entered the world at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona. His mother Marisa worked there as a medical doctor while his…
- Manu GinóbiliEmanuel David Ginóbili arrived into the world on the 28th of July 1977 in Bahía Blanca, a city located in the southwest region of Buenos Aires Province.
- Hedo TürkoğluHidayet Türkoğlu joined the basketball club Efes Pilsen in 1996. He played four seasons with this team before moving to North America.
- Leandro BarbosaLeandro Mateus Barbosa stepped onto a basketball court in São Paulo at the age of 17. He played for Palmeiras under the guidance of coach Lula Ferreira, who…
- Yao MingYao Ming entered the world on the 12th of September 1980 in Shanghai. He weighed more than twice the average weight of a Chinese newborn at birth.
- Andrei KirilenkoAndrei Kirilenko was born in the Soviet city of Izhevsk on the 18th of February 1981. The same place that manufactured the AK-47 rifle would later give him…
- Peja StojakovićPredrag Stojaković was born on the 9th of June 1977 in Požega, SR Croatia. His family belonged to an ethnic Serb community within the Socialist Federal…
- Vlade DivacVlade Divac began playing basketball in his home town Prijepolje for the team KK Elan. He started his professional career in Yugoslavia with Sloga from…