Kristaps Porziņģis, a Latvian professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, was born on 2nd of August, 1995. He is 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) tall, and plays both the power forward and center positions.
Born in Liepāja, Porziņģis started out his career with youth teams in his hometown before trying out and making the Baloncesto Sevilla youth squads. Following multiple years with the junior teams of Sevilla and representing them in Nike International Junior Tournaments, he was promoted to the senior squad. There, Porziņģis quickly rose as the figurehead of the team, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the EuroCup Basketball Rising Star award, while also attracting interest from various NBA franchises, ultimately being selected by the Knicks with the fourth overall pick of the 2015 NBA draft.
Porziņģis competed with the Latvia youth national team at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristaps_Porziņģis
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