Curated category
Olympic medalists in basketball
- 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.
- Nikola JokićNikola Jokić was born on the 19th of February 1995 in Sombor, a city in northern Serbia. He grew up in a cramped two-bedroom apartment shared with his…
- Arvydas SabonisArvydas Romas Sabonis was born on the 19th of December 1964 in Kaunas, Lithuania. He began playing basketball at age 13 while living under Soviet rule.
- Becky HammonRebecca Lynn Hammon was born on the 11th of March 1977 in Rapid City, South Dakota. She learned to dribble a basketball at a very young age while playing…
- Rudy GobertRudy Gobert-Bourgarel was born on the 26th of June 1992 in Saint-Quentin, a town in northern France. His father played college basketball for the Marist Red…
- 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…
- 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…
- Šarūnas MarčiulionisRaimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis was born on the 13th of June 1964 in Lithuania. His mother Laimutė worked as a geography teacher while his father Juozas…