1. Tiago Splitter Beims was born on January 1,1985 and is a Brazilian basketball coach and former professional player.
24 Facts About Tiago Splitter
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Tiago Splitter is currently the head coach for Paris Basketball.
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Tiago Splitter was expected to declare for the 2006 NBA draft, but because the expensive buyout of his contract discouraged NBA teams with high draft picks from drafting him, he remained in the Spanish ACB League for that season.
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Tiago Splitter was automatically eligible for the 2007 NBA draft, as he was at least 22 years of age at the time of the draft.
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Tiago Splitter was selected by the San Antonio Spurs, in the first round of the draft, with the 28th overall draft pick.
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Tiago Splitter had instead signed an extension with Saski Baskonia, that would keep him in the Spanish ACB League through 2010.
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On July 12,2010, Tiago Splitter signed a contract with the San Antonio Spurs.
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On May 29,2012, in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks, attempted to slow San Antonio's offense through continual the fouling of Tiago Splitter, sending him to the free throw line with the "Hack-a-Shaq" strategy.
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Tiago Splitter started 58 games, as the Spurs finished the West in the two-seed, behind the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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On June 15,2014, Tiago Splitter won his first NBA championship, after the Spurs defeated the Miami Heat, 4 games to 1 in the 2014 NBA Finals.
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Tiago Splitter returned for the playoffs, but the Spurs were knocked out in the first round by the Los Angeles Clippers, in seven games.
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On July 9,2015, Tiago Splitter was traded to the Atlanta Hawks, in exchange for the draft rights to Georgios Printezis, and a future second-round pick.
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On October 11,2016, Tiago Splitter was ruled out for four weeks with a grade 2 hamstring strain.
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On February 22,2017, Tiago Splitter was traded, along with a second-round draft pick, to the Philadelphia 76ers, in exchange for Ersan Ilyasova.
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Tiago Splitter, who had been nursing a right calf injury, entered the game late in the first quarter, and played in his first game since January 31,2016, when he was a member of the Atlanta Hawks, before undergoing hip surgery.
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Tiago Splitter played a handful of games with a prosthetic hip.
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On February 19,2018, Tiago Splitter announced his retirement from playing professional basketball, due to a hip injury that had hindered the back-end of his career.
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Tiago Splitter won gold medals with the senior Brazilian national basketball team at the 2003 FIBA South American Championship, the 2003 Pan American Games, the 2005 FIBA AmeriCup, the 2009 FIBA AmeriCup, and the silver medal in 2011 FIBA AmeriCup.
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Tiago Splitter parted ways with the Nets in May 2023.
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In July 2023, Tiago Splitter was hired by the Houston Rockets as an assistant coach.
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On July 16,2024, Tiago Splitter was named head coach for Paris Basketball.
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In 2021, Tiago Splitter was named an assistant coach of the Brazilian national team.
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In 2022, Tiago Splitter was the head coach of the Brazilian U23 national team at the GLOBL Jam Tournament in Toronto, Canada, where the team won the gold medal.
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Tiago Splitter was raised a Christian, although his father is of Jewish descent.