Pablo Prigioni

Pablo Prigioni (born May 17, 1977) is an Argentine-Italian former professional basketball player, currently serving as an assistant coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Prigioni began his professional career with Ramallo of the Argentine LNB League during the 1995–96 season.

Prigioni moved to Belgrano San Nicolás in 1996, playing with them until 1998.

Prigioni transferred to Obras Sanitarias in 1998 and played with the club until 1999.

In 1999, Prigioni moved to the Spanish club Fuenlabrada, where he stayed until 2001.

In 2001, Prigioni joined the Spanish club Lucentum Alicante, and he played there until 2003.

In 2003, Prigioni joined the EuroLeague team Baskonia.

He won silver medals at the 2003 FIBA Americas Championship and 2007 FIBA Americas Championship.

With Baskonia he won several titles, including: 3 Spanish King's Cups in the years 2004, 2006, 2009; 4 Spanish Supercups in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008; and the Spanish League championship in 2008.

As a member of the Argentine senior men's national basketball team, Prigioni played at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.

He played the point guard position, and was a member of the senior Argentina national basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Prigioni was also a member of the Argentina national team that competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.

In 2009, Prigioni joined Real Madrid.

In August 2011, Prigioni returned to Baskonia, signing a one-year deal.

Prigioni is the oldest rookie in NBA history, making his debut with the New York Knicks in 2012 at age 35, prior to which he was a two-time All-EuroLeague selection playing in Europe, most notably Spain.

On July 24, 2012, Prigioni signed a one-year contract with the New York Knicks for the rookie minimum.

At age 35, Prigioni became the oldest rookie in NBA history, when he made his debut on November 2, 2012.

He became the team's starting point guard for the last two months of the 2012–13 season, as well as for the playoffs.

In game 6 of the Knicks' first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics, Prigioni made 3 three-pointers in the first quarter.

The Knicks won 88–80, to advance to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 13 years.

On July 10, 2013, Prigioni re-signed with the Knicks.

On February 19, 2015, Prigioni was traded to the Houston Rockets, in exchange for Alexey Shved, and two second-round draft picks.

On July 20, 2015, the Rockets traded Prigioni, Joey Dorsey, Nick Johnson, Kostas Papanikolaou, a 2016 first-round draft pick, and cash considerations, to the Denver Nuggets, in exchange for Ty Lawson and a 2017 second-round draft pick.

Prigioni was immediately waived by Denver, upon being acquired.

On August 3, 2015, Prigioni signed with the Los Angeles Clippers.

On January 13, 2016, he had a career-high eight steals against the Miami Heat, which was one shy of the franchise record, held by his head coach, Doc Rivers.

On April 8, 2016, he recorded a season-high 13 points, a career-high seven rebounds, and a season-high seven assists, in a 102–99 overtime win over the Utah Jazz.

On July 29, 2016, Prigioni signed with the Houston Rockets, returning to the franchise for a second stint.

However, he was waived by the Rockets on October 24, 2016, after appearing in five preseason games with them.

On December 5, 2016, Prigioni returned to Baskonia, signing with them for the rest of the season.

He played four seasons in the NBA for the New York Knicks, Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Clippers, before starting coaching in 2017.

He officially retired from his professional basketball playing career on January 9, 2017.

During his professional career, Prigioni played in 10 EuroLeague seasons, in which he had career averages of 6.1 points, 4.3 assists, 2.5 rebounds, and 1.7 steals per game, and in four NBA seasons, in which he had career regular season averages of 3.5 points, 2.8 assists, 1.9 rebounds, and 1.0 steals per game.

On 16 June 2017, Prigioni began his coaching career, when he signed a two-year deal with Baskonia, to become their new head coach.

However, on October 26, Prigioni stepped down as Baskonia head coach, after having a 0–3 start in the EuroLeague and a 2–3 start in the Liga ACB.

On 24 April 2018, Prigioni joined the Brooklyn Nets as an assistant coach.

During the 2018–19 NBA season, the Nets returned to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2015.

On 25 June 2019, Prigioni was hired by the Minnesota Timberwolves as an assistant coach.

He coached the Wolves in the 2019 Las Vegas Summer League and was put in charge of the team's offense for the following season.

On 1 September 2022, Prigioni became the head coach of the Argentina men's national basketball team.