Jorge Garbajosa

Jorge Garbajosa Chaparro, Jr., nicknamed "Garbo" , is a Spanish professional basketball player. At 2.07 m , he plays both power forward and small forward. Garbajosa began his career playing for Taugres, later known as TAU Cerámica, between 1995–00. In the 1998–99 season, he guided Vitoria to a Spanish National Cup victory. Garbajosa then spent four seasons at Benetton Treviso between 2000–04 under future Toronto Raptors Vice-President and Assistant General Manager Maurizio Gherardini and New York Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni. He won two Italian National Cups,... two Italian Super Cups and two Italian Championships with Benetton and averaged 13.8 points, 6.7 rebounds and a Euroleague-best 2.85 steals per game en route to All-Euroleague 2002-03 First Team honors and being named the 2003 Eurobasket.com Player of the Year. Garbajosa spent his next two seasons with Unicaja Málaga, helping them to win the 2005–06 Spanish Championship and Spanish Cup. He was in the top 15 in scoring and rebounding in the Euroleague 2005-06 season, and averaged 13.3 points and 6.
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