Luis Scola
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Competitor for  Argentina |
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Luis Alberto Scola (born April 20, 1980 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine basketball player. The 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) and 104 kg (230 lb) power forward plays for Spanish TAU Cerámica and the Argentina national basketball team. He has double citizenship: Argentine and Spanish.
Scola started in Buenos Aires Ferrocarril Oeste youth teams, where he also made his professional debut in the 1996-97 season. After the 1997-98 season he moved to Spain to help Second Division Cabitel Gijón to get to First Division. He then signed with TAU Cerámica but stayed the 1999-2000 season with Gijón before moving to TAU Cerámica, with whom he is now playing his seventh season.
In the summer of 2005, the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA (who drafted Scola in 2002) attempted to negotiate with TAU to buy out his contract, but TAU wanted over 3 million dollars for the contract, which made it impossible for Scola to join Argentina national teammate Manu Ginobili. When the deal to buy out Scola's contract fell through, the Spurs instead signed Argentine teammate and good friend Fabricio Oberto.
In October 2005, Luis won the Spanish Supercopa with TAU Cerámica and earned the Most Valuable Player award.
[edit] Titles
- 2006 Copa del rey - Spanish Cup, with TAU Vitoria
- 2005 Spanish Supercopa, with TAU Vitoria
- 2004 Copa del Rey - Spanish Cup, , with TAU Vitoria
- 2004 Olympic Gold medal, with Argentine national team
- 2002 Liga ACB - Spanish League, with TAU Vitoria
- 2002 Copa del Rey - Spanish Cup, with TAU Vitoria
[edit] Awards
- 2005 Spanish ACB league MVP.
- 2004 Ideal Olympics team.
[edit] External links
- Luis Scola Player Profile (InterBasket)
- Scola at NBA.com
- NBA draft
- (Spanish) ESPN Deportes interview
- Luis Scola at basket-stats.info
| 2002 NBA Draft | ||
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| First Round Yao Ming | Jay Williams | Mike Dunleavy, Jr. | Drew Gooden | Nikoloz Tskitishvili | Dajuan Wagner | Maybyner "Nene" Hilario | Chris Wilcox | Amare Stoudemire | Caron Butler | Jared Jeffries | Melvin Ely | Marcus Haislip | Fred Jones | Bostjan Nachbar | Jiri Welsch | Juan Dixon | Curtis Borchardt | Ryan Humphrey | Kareem Rush | Qyntel Woods | Casey Jacobsen | Tayshaun Prince | Nenad Krstić | Frank Williams | John Salmons | Chris Jefferies | Dan Dickau |
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| Second Round Steve Logan | Roger Mason, Jr. | Robert Archibald | Vincent Yarbrough | Dan Gadzuric | Carlos Boozer | Milos Vujanić | David Andersen | Tito Maddox | Rod Grizzard | Juan Carlos Navarro | Mario Kasun | Ronald Murray | Jason Jennings | Lonny Baxter | Sam Clancy | Matt Barnes | Jamal Sampson | Chris Owens | Peter Fehse | Darius Songaila | Federico Kammerichs | Marcus Taylor | Rasual Butler | Tamar Slay | Mladen Sekularac | Luis Scola | Randy Holcomb | Corsley Edwards |
