Leandro Barbosa

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Leandro Barbosa
Position	Point guard
Nickname	Leandrinho, The Brazilian Blur
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	188 lb (85 kg)
Team	Phoenix Suns
Nationality	Brazil
Born	November 28, 1982 São Paulo
Draft	28^th overall, 2003 San Antonio Spurs
Pro career	2003 – present

Leandro Mateus Barbosa (born November 28, 1982 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian professional basketball player, who plays at the guard position with the Phoenix Suns in the National Basketball Association. He is also known as Leandrinho, or "Little Leandro". In the NBA, he is known as "The Brazilian Blur," due to his exceptional quickness with and without the ball.

At 6'3" with a 6'10" wingspan, he was selected 28th overall in the 2003 NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs but his rights were acquired on draft day by the Suns in a trade for a future protected first-round pick. Barbosa holds the Suns record for points scored in a game by a rookie as a first-time starter, with 27 against the Chicago Bulls on January 5, 2004. He also set the Suns record for three-point field goals made by a rookie in consecutive games, when he hit at least one three-pointer during a ten-game streak between January 2-January 19.

Barbosa holds career averages of 9.2 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.

[edit] Career transactions

Drafted: 2003, 1st round, 28th pick by San Antonio Spurs
Draft rights traded by Spurs to Phoenix Suns for conditional 1st-round pick (2005 #30 - David Lee) on 26 June 2003
Signed by Suns to three-year, $2.6 million contract with team option worth $1.7 million on 16 July 2003
Signed a five-year, $33 million contract extension with the Suns on 3 August 2006

[edit] Trivia

According to Barbosa, part of his talent can be attributed to the strange habit of eating raw cow's liver with beans every day. He tells it is hard to do, but without it, he feels weak. [1]