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Italian guard Belinelli signs for Golden State
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-17 09:15
The Golden State Warriors have signed Italian guard Marco Belinelli,
drafted by the Warriors with the 18th overall selection in the 2007 NBA
Draft, the NBA club announced on Monday.
Terms of the deal were not released.
Belinelli, a 6-foot-5 guard from Bologna, played on the Warriors NBA
Summer League team in Las Vegas and averaged 22.8 points and 2.5 assists
in four games, shooting 43.5 percent and earning Summer League All-Star
honors.
The 21-year-old Belinelli played professionally in Italy for five
seasons. In 33 games last season with Fortitudo Bologna in Serie A,
Italy's top professional league, he averaged 16.4 points per game, while
shooting 54.4 percent.
He averaged 13.5 points per game during last summer's FIBA world
championship, including 25 points in a losing effort against the United
States in a preliminary round match.
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