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José Calderón
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Spanish basketball player
OverviewAI-generated
José Manuel Calderón Borrallo is a Spanish former professional basketball player who played as a point guard. Born in Villanueva de la Serena in 1981, he competed in the National Basketball Association and for teams including Saski Baskonia, Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, Lucentum Alicante, and the Toronto Raptors. His professional career spanned from 1998 to 2019.
Calderón represented Spain in international competition, participating in the 2002 FIBA World Championship and the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics. He stands 191 centimeters tall and weighs 95 kilograms. In addition to his athletic career, he is identified as a businessperson.
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Key facts
- 2013
- Detroit Pistons
- 2017
- Atlanta Hawks
- Title
- Special advisor
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1981-09-28 ) September 28, 1981 (age 44) , Villanueva de la Serena , Spain
- Listed height
- 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
- Listed weight
- 200 lb (91 kg)
- Nba draft
- 2003 : undrafted
- Playing career
- 1998–2019
- Position
- Point guard
- Number
- 8, 3, 5, 13, 81
- 1998 1999
- Diputación Foral Alava
- 1999 2001
- Lucentum Alicante
- 2001 2002
- Fuenlabrada
- 2002 2005
- Tau Cerámica
- 2005 2013
- Toronto Raptors
- 2013 2014
- Dallas Mavericks
- 2014 2016
- New York Knicks
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Position
- Point Guard
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Calderón
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Villanueva de la Serena
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 2016 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Atlanta Hawks
- Position played
- point guard
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 95
- Official website
- www.josemanuelcalderon.com
- Image
- Jose Calderon (34293586395).jpg
- Height
- 191
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- José Manuel Calderón
- date of birth
- 1981-09-28
- sport number
- 13
- different from
- José Calderón
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- birth name
- José Manuel Calderón Borrallo
- social media followers
- 491437
- nickname
- Mr. Cartering
- competition class
- women's basketball
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Encyclopedic overview
José Manuel Calderón Borrallo ( Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse kaldeˈɾon]; born September 28, 1981) is a Spanish basketball executive and former player who is a special advisor for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played professionally for 21 years including 14 seasons in the NBA, primarily with the Toronto Raptors with whom he set an NBA record for the highest free throw percentage in a season (98.1% in 2008-09). With the Spain national team, he won a FIBA World Cup title in 2006, two Olympic silver medals in 2008 and 2012, as well as a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He also won a EuroBasket title in 2011, two silver medals in 2003 and 2007 as well as a bronze in 2013. Calderón earned an All-EuroBasket Team selection in 2007.
Early life and European career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “José Calderón” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.