Diego Pinheiro

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Diego Pinheiro
Medal record

Men’s Basketball
FIBA Americas Championship
Gold	2009 San Juan	National team

Diego Pinheiro da Silva (born June 14, 1980 in Brazil) is a Brazilian professional basketball player. He is a 6'5" (1.95 m) swingman.

Professional career

Pinheiro has played professionally with Winner Limeira of Novo Basquete Brasil.^[1]

Brazilian national team

Pinheiro is also a member of the Brazilian national basketball team.^[2]

Pinheiro made his debut for the senior team at the 2008 South American Championship, averaging 5.8 points and 2.7 assists per game for the team.^[3] He also competed for the gold-medal winning Brazilian team at the FIBA Americas Championship 2009, seeing action in five games off the bench for the Brazilians.^[4]

Previously, Pinheiro competed for the junior national team at the 1999 World Championship for Junior Men as a 19-year old. He was the team's second leading scorer, and helped the Brazilians to an eighth-place finish in the tournament.^[5]

References

↑ Player Profile at latinbasket.com
↑ Profile at FIBA.com
↑ Profile at FIBA.com
↑ Profile at latinbasket.com
↑ FIBA Archive

v t e Brazil squad – 2009 FIBA Americas Championship – Gold Medal

4 M. Machado 5 D. Machado 6 Pinheiro 7 Olivinha 8 Garcia 9 Huertas 10 Barbosa 11 Varejão 12 Giovannoni 13 Batista 14 Tavernari 15 Splitter Coach: Monsalve

Persondata
Name	Pinheiro, Diego
Alternative names
Short description	Brazilian professional basketball player
Date of birth	June 14, 1980
Place of birth
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