Marcos Delía
![]() Delía with Argentina, in 2015. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | Lega Basket Serie A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Saladillo, Argentina | April 8, 1992||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Argentine / Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 2.09 m (6 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 111 kg (245 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2014 / Undrafted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2010–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010–2014 | Boca Juniors | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | Obras Sanitarias | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2016–2019 | Murcia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | Joventut | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 | Fuerza Regia de Monterrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019-2020 | Virtus Bologna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2020–2022 | Trieste | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2022–present | BC Wolves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marcos Nicolás Delía[1] (born April 8, 1992) is an Argentine-Italian[2][3] professional basketball player for BC Wolves of the Lithuanian Basketball League. He also represents the senior Argentina national basketball team internationally. He is a 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)[4] tall center, that can also play as a power forward, if needed.
Professional career
Delía played with Lanus Buenos Aires in Argentina during the 2008–09 season. He spent the 2009–10 season with Ciudad de Saladillo. He then moved to the Argentine club Boca Juniors, in 2010, and he stayed there until 2014, when he moved to the Argentine club Obras Sanitarias.
In 2016, he moved to the Spanish League club UCAM Murcia. In 2016–17 season, he made a debut in EuroCup and averaged 3.6 points and 2.6 rebounds in 14 appearances. In the Spanish League, he made 32 appearances and averaged 5.7 points and 3.3 rebounds per game. In 2017–18 season, he averaged 6.2 points and 3.9 rebounds over 34 Spanish League games. He started the 2018–19 season playing for UCAM Murcia, and in the mid-season moved to Joventut. In 32 games of the Spanish League, he averaged 5.8 points and 3.1 rebounds per game for both clubs.
In the summer of 2019, he signed a contract with the Mexican reigning champions Fuerza Regia de Monterrey;[5] however, after only few months, in October he joined Virtus Bologna in the Lega Basket Serie A.[6]
On October 12, 2020, he signed with Pallacanestro Trieste in the Italian Serie A.[7]
On August 4, 2022, he has signed with BC Wolves of the Lithuanian Basketball League.[8]
National team career
Delía was a member of the junior national teams of Argentina. With Argentina's junior national teams, he won the gold medal at the 2009 FIBA South America Under-17 Championship, where he won a gold medal, at the 2010 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship, and at the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship.
He has also been a member of the senior men's Argentine national basketball team. With the senior Argentine national team, he has won medals at the following tournaments: the 2012 South American Championship, where he won a gold medal, the 2014 South American Championship, where he won a silver medal, the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship, where he won a bronze medal, and the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship, where he won a silver medal.
He has also played with Argentina's senior national team at the following tournaments: the 2011 Pan American Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, 2016 South American Championship, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[9]
In 2019, he took part in the team that won the Pan American gold medal in Lima. He was included in the Argentine squad for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup and clinched silver medal with Argentina which emerged as runners-up to Spain at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.[10]
In 2022, Delía won the gold medal in the 2022 FIBA AmeriCup held in Recife, Brazil. He was the Argentina´s starting center in the tournament.
References
- ^ "DELIA, Marcos Nicolas". info.guadalajara2011.org.mx. Archived from the original on 2012-01-01.
- ^ DELIA, MARCOS NATIONALITY: ITALY.
- ^ "Marcos Delía nacionalidad | licencia: ITA | EUR {{in lang|es}}". Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ^ "Marcos Delía altura 2.11 m {{in lang|es}}". Archived from the original on 2016-08-27. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
- ^ "Marcos Delía: "tengo una gran expectativa con lo que me voy a encontrar en la liga de México"". abcsaladillo.com (in Spanish). 30 August 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- ^ Eurocup, colpo in trasferta della Virtus. E arriva il centro argentino Delia
- ^ "Marcos Delia, nuovo centro per l'Allianz Pallacanestro Trieste" (in Italian). pallacanestrotrieste.it. 12 October 2020.
- ^ "Marcos Delia joins BC Wolves". Sportando. August 4, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ Marcos DELIA (ARG).
- ^ "Spain seal second FIBA World Cup with win over Argentina". MARCA in English. 15 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
External links
- Marcos Delía at acb.com (in Spanish)
- Marcos Delía at euroleague.net
- Marcos Delía at fiba.com (archive)
- Marcos Delía at latinbasket.com
- Marcos Delía on Instagram
- Marcos Delía at abcsaladillo.com.ar
- CS1 Spanish-language sources (es)
- CS1 Italian-language sources (it)
- Articles with short description
- Articles with Spanish-language sources (es)
- 1992 births
- Living people
- 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- Argentine expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Argentine men's basketball players
- Argentine people of Italian descent
- Basketball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Basketball players at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Boca Juniors basketball players
- CB Murcia players
- Centers (basketball)
- Italian expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Italian men's basketball players
- Joventut Badalona players
- Lega Basket Serie A players
- Liga ACB players
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Obras Sanitarias basketball players
- Olympic basketball players of Argentina
- Pallacanestro Trieste players
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games medalists in basketball
- Power forwards (basketball)
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province