Two-time All-Star, the 2008 NBA Sixth Man of the Year and a four-time NBA champion. San Antonio legend Manu Ginobili announced his retirement.
"It's been a fabulous journey," he wrote on Twitter. "Way beyond my wildest dreams. Immense gratitude to everyone involved in my life in the last 23 years."
Interperformances is glad to have been involved since 1998, when Manu joined our agency, and would like to thank him as well for this incredibile journey.
Manu joined us when he was 21 years old, playing for his home team Estudiantes de Bahà­a Blanca. After signing him overseas with Reggio Calabria, in 1999 he entered the NBA draft and the San Antonio Spurs selected him late in the second round with the 57th overall pick. He continued to play in Italy, with Virtus Bologna, where in two years he won the 2001 Italian League Championship, the 2001 and 2002 Italian Cups, and the 2001 EuroLeague, also being named Euroleague 2000-01 MVP and Italian League MVP in 2000-01 and 2001-02.
He joined the Spurs for the 2002-03 season where he began his NBA career - The 41-year-old Argentine, widely seen as the most successful foreign player in NBA history, is the only non-US player to have won four championships crowns between 2003 and 2014 and an Olympic gold medal in Athens in 2004.
He played 1,057 regular season and 218 play-off games for the Spurs, and is ranked in the franchise's top five of all time for games, points (14,043), assists (4,001) and steals (1,392).
Tributes to Ginobili from all over the world poured in after his announcement, and Interperformances would like to pay tribute as well, by wishing him all the best in the new life

#GraciasManu