El treinta de abril/April 30th
¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... Luis Scola! (1980- )
A professional basketball player from Argentina, Scola was 15 when he made his professional debut with Club Ferro Basquet in Buenos Aires. When he was 17, he moved to Gijon, Spain to play in a small club there. Though picked late in the 2nd round of the 2002 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs, he continued playing in Spain for five more years (with the Spurs happy to let him stay there and develop as a player) until he was finally signed as a 27-year-old rookie by the Houston Rockets in 2007. He was then voted to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. During his NBA career, which only ended in 2017, Scola also played for the Phoenix Suns, the Indiana Pacers, the Toronto Raptors, and the Brooklyn Nets. He also played for Argentina in multiple Olympics, winning gold in 2004 (the U.S. won bronze that year). He and wife Pamela, who was his lifelong girlfriend ("novia de toda la vida," according to this story in Argentina's La Nación), have four sons together. His oldest, Tiago, plays basketball like his father, and after his first game (in April 2013) the elder Scola tweeted out this picture (below) with the caption: Hoy debutó Tiago Scola en los Arizona
Magic. 0 pts, 0 rb, 1 minuto y gran sonrisa. Dale con ganas, hijo. (Today Tiago Scola debuted on the Arizona Magic. 0 pts, 0 rbs, 1 minute and a huge smile. Go get 'em, son). Luis Scola currently plays for the Shanxi Brave Dragons in the Chinese Basketball Association. In this article on nba.com (For Raptors' Scola, life revolves around traveling: With his team or with his family, Argentine cherishes exploration), Scola speaks of the wonderful parts of moving around and seeing the world, but also the challenges. He says he tries to help his children with the constant moves by telling them that it is a great chance to make new friends and learn, though he understands it is difficult. As for himself, he says, "Argentina is my home, my place, but I do have a feeling that I could live and have a happy life anywhere." See a 15 minute biography of Scola (in Spanish), which included interviews with his father, grandfather, former coaches, and childhood friends, HERE.
For resources for teaching Spanish, Level 1 through AP, CLICK HERE.
Other April 30th events of note:
1557 - Lautaro, leader of the Mapuches in Chile, was killed by the Spanish in the Battle of Mataquito. Isabel Allende wrote about him in her novel Inés del Alma and Pablo Neruda wrote a poem about him. The Mapuche people and many Chileans admire him as a symbol of resistance to foreign conquest. and cruelty
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| Scola at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Río, from an article in The Boston Globe about their win over Brazil. Click HERE. |
A professional basketball player from Argentina, Scola was 15 when he made his professional debut with Club Ferro Basquet in Buenos Aires. When he was 17, he moved to Gijon, Spain to play in a small club there. Though picked late in the 2nd round of the 2002 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs, he continued playing in Spain for five more years (with the Spurs happy to let him stay there and develop as a player) until he was finally signed as a 27-year-old rookie by the Houston Rockets in 2007. He was then voted to the NBA All-Rookie First Team. During his NBA career, which only ended in 2017, Scola also played for the Phoenix Suns, the Indiana Pacers, the Toronto Raptors, and the Brooklyn Nets. He also played for Argentina in multiple Olympics, winning gold in 2004 (the U.S. won bronze that year). He and wife Pamela, who was his lifelong girlfriend ("novia de toda la vida," according to this story in Argentina's La Nación), have four sons together. His oldest, Tiago, plays basketball like his father, and after his first game (in April 2013) the elder Scola tweeted out this picture (below) with the caption: Hoy debutó Tiago Scola en los Arizona
For resources for teaching Spanish, Level 1 through AP, CLICK HERE.
Other April 30th events of note:
1557 - Lautaro, leader of the Mapuches in Chile, was killed by the Spanish in the Battle of Mataquito. Isabel Allende wrote about him in her novel Inés del Alma and Pablo Neruda wrote a poem about him. The Mapuche people and many Chileans admire him as a symbol of resistance to foreign conquest. and cruelty
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