Nicolás Mazzarino

Nicolás Mazzarino
No. 12 – Mapooro Cantù
Position Point guard / Shooting guard
League Italian League
Eurocup
Personal information
Born October 21, 1975
Salto, Uruguay
Nationality Uruguayan / Italian
Listed height 5 ft 11.25 in (1.81 m)
Listed weight 195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
Pro career 1993–present
Career history
1993–1996 Hebraica y Macabi
1997–2000 C.A. Welcome
2001 C.A. Boca Juniors
2001 C.A. Welcome
2001–2005 Viola Reggio Calabria
2005–2013 Mapooro Cantù
2013-present Club Malvín

Nicolás Mazzarino (born October 21, 1975, in Salto) is a Uruguayan professional basketball player for Club Malvin in the Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol. He also holds an Italian passport.

Professional career

Mazzarino began his professional career in the Uruguayan club Hebraica y Macabi in 1993. In this club, Mazzarino won the Uruguayan League championship in 1994. In 1997, he moved to C.A. Welcome, another Uruguayan basketball team, where he won 4 consecutively Uruguayan League championships. In 2001, Mazzarino played a brief time in the Argentinan League team C.A. Boca Juniors, but then he returned to C.A. Welcome.

In 2001, he moved to the Italian League, to play in Viola Reggio Calabria, where he became the team's captain and best scorer in the 2004–05 season.

After that season, he moved to Pallacanestro Cantù. In the 2007–08 season, he became the captain of Cantù. His best season with Cantù was the 2009–10 season, when he helped Cantù make it to the Italian League semifinals, after averaging 13.8 points and 2.8 assist per game.

In 2013 he returned to Uruguay and began playing at Club Malvín. The team won the Uruguayan championship of 2013-2014.

Uruguayan national team

Mazzarino played for the Uruguayan national team from 1997 to 2008. He played with Uruguay at 5 South American Championships (1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, and 2008), 6 FIBA Americas Championships (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007), and 3 Pan American Games (1999, 2003, and 2007).

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