"What kind of Italian joke, I have to shoot like this to shoot 100% shooting rate is not good? Give me the ball! "No. 3 has always been a number in the basketball circle, and putting aside the no. 3 of each team under the national team number requirement, any fan of the outstanding No. 3 player in NBA history can say a few." In Spurs' five-crown history, there are three championship rosters with No. 3 players: Stephen Jackson in 2003, Glenn Robinson in 2005, and Marco Belinelli in 2014, the protagonist of this article.
Before being selected by the Warriors with the 18th pick in the first round in 2007, Belinelli was already a well-known player in his native Italy, having won the Serie A title and the Italian Super Cup two years ago and the MVP. At the beginning of his career, Belinelli's job was not stable. He played two seasons with the Warriors before being traded to the Raptors in exchange for Devon George. A season later, another deal, he made the New Orleans Hornets (now the Pelicans). In the Hornets' two seasons, Belinelli gradually settled in the main position, playing a total of 146 games in both seasons, starting 124 games, and averaging about 11 points per game. Two seasons later he became a restricted free agent and signed with the Bulls.
Although he played only one season with the Bulls, Belinelli gradually developed the skills of the big heart, hitting the winning ball many times, and in the first round of the 2012-13 Eastern Conference G7 Bulls victory over the Nets, Belinelli scored 24 points, and the Bulls were eventually eliminated by the Heat 4-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
On July 11, 2013, Belinelli signed with the San Antonio Spurs and has since become the "son" of the thorns (he once said that he respected Ginobili as a father, and he hereby nicknamed it). It was undoubtedly the peak of Belinelli's career, and the 2013-2014 season was the best season of Bellinelli's NBA career in rebounds, assists and three-point shooting, and his 43.0% three-point shooting rate also gave him the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to play in the three-point contest and eventually win the championship. That year, the Spurs made a comeback with a vengeful heart and an international column from around the globe, and the end result was that on Father's Day 2014, Marco Berinelli became the first Italian basketball player to win an NBA championship.
At the end of the 2014-2015 season, Belinelli left the Holy City and hit the road again, then went through four teams in three seasons before signing with the Spurs again on 20 July 2018. This time, he stopped wearing his former No. 3 shirt and changed to No. 18. Compared to 14 years, his shooting percentage has dropped slightly, and he has completely sat on the bench of the Spurs from the sometimes starting point of the year. His head wrinkles are deeper and more even, and his shooting posture is more imaginative. In the 2018-19 Spurs, the lineup changed a lot from before, Ginobili retired, Parker transferred, DeRozan and Pelter came to The Holy City through a trade, the team selected rookie Lonnie Walker with the 18th pick in the first round, and Belinelli and Mills became the only two members of the 14-championship roster left in the team. That year was also the only season in which Spurs' "Four Guns King" M.,D. (Patti Mills), Fore (Brin Forbes) Bay (Davis Bertans) Bay (Marco Belinelli) were combined.
(World famous painting: "On everyone wearing black pants and not telling Azan, wearing black or white socks, not telling Azan, changing the slippers or not telling Azan to take a group photo but calling Azan up and sending the photo everywhere")
On January 10, 2019, the Spurs won 154-147 overtime at home to the Thunder, a game that is a masterpiece of four cannon kings, the Spurs all three-pointers 19 of 16, of which Belinelli shot all 5, including the first quarter of the three clear three consecutive: At the end of the Spurs' two seasons, Belinelli chose to leave the NBA, return to the "place where dreams began" Serie A and sign a three-year contract with Bologna. In April 2021, Bologna returned in the semi-finals with an impressive record of 19 wins and 2 losses. However, the final result of this season is still good, the team returned to Serie A to participate in the playoffs, 3-0 Treviso in the quarter-finals, 3-0 Brindisi in the semi-finals, and 4-0 in the final against the old rival Milan Armani, winning the championship in a ten-game winning streak. In the final G4, Belinelli scored a team-high 15 points, plus 1 rebound and 3 assists, and won the Serie A championship with the team after a 20-year absence.
Belinelli is the kind of Spur man who is particularly Spurs, and I always think he is an old fritter who has been at the Spurs for decades, but when I looked through the information, I found that he had traveled to so many cities. The Spurs are the longest-running team of his NBA career, and he has also left his own unique mark on the field. In June 2014, after spurs won the championship, Beline gave an interview in Italian. Referring to his hometown, San Giovanni, a small town in northern Italy, and his parents who supported him all the way, Belinelli pulled over the Italian flag draped over his shoulders and covered his face, crying silently. In 2006, Andrea Banyani became the first monarch from Europe. Two years later, Danilo Gallinari was the 6th pick in the Class of 2008. Sandwiched between the two, Belinelli wasn't very good at first. In 2007, the 18th pick in the first round, five teams changed in seven seasons, and for a long time, everyone mentioned the Italian men's basketball team, first said Gallinari and Baniani, and then may remember Belinelli's name. All of this has changed historically at the Spurs. In February 2014, he was the first Italian player to win the All-Star Three-Point Contest. At the end of the 2013-2014 season, he became the first Italian player to reach the NBA Finals and win a championship.
On that day, in Italy, a country of football fanaticism, people saw new heroes.
Some Italian viewers watched the live broadcast of the three-point contest at 4 a.m. local time, with Belinelli shooting 8-of-10 from the last two shooting points in the final decider, including four flower balls. Sky Sports' Flavio Tranquillo said of Belinelli's performance, "His hands feel hot like a furnace". Speaking of the three-point contest winner, Belinelli said: "I remember when I was very young, I would watch Larry Bird and his three-point game. This is the first trophy I won in the NBA, and it's dedicated to my family and friends, but also to my native Italy. "I know I'm the first, but I really don't think much about it." Belinelli said, "I want to do more, to be a better player, I don't want to stop at this moment. "The next step is to win more, after all, when no one expects you to win and you win, it's a wonderful thing."
On March 25, 2022, Marco Belinelli is about to celebrate his 36th birthday. He's not a well-known shooter in the world basketball world or in NBA history, but when it comes to crooked guns, I'm sure every Spurs can think of Belinelli's name.
After the Serie A victory match, Belinelli first embraced his wife affectionately and then cried with joy in an interview. He said, "This victory is not the same as the 2014 victory with the thorns, but I still shed tears because we are standing where we hoped to stand in the first place." In the 2021-2022 season, Belinelli was officially announced as captain of the team, and the season is not over yet, but in September last year, Bologna won the Italian Super Cup and has qualified for this European Championship. I often think of the social media photos he posted after his victory last season, the trophies on the pedestal in the center of the stadium, the uniform group clapping in the background, the cheering fans standing up, the reporters holding up the camera to record the moment, Andrino Belinelli standing on the team logo, holding the trophy in both hands, and kissing it religiously. Alla Fine ho Vinto. (Headline of a domestic Italian media report when Belinelli won the title with the Spurs in 2014, meaning "Finally I won")