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Celebrating our Players: Happy Birthday Jorge Garbajosa !

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Happy Birthday Jorge !

Jorge Garbajosa Chaparro, Jr.
Position: Forward
Height: 6 ft 9.5 in (2.07 m)
Weight: 245 lb (111 kg)
League: Spanish League & Euroleague
Team: Real Madrid
Born: December 19, 1977 (1977-12-19)
Place: Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Draft: Undrafted, 1999
Pro career: 1994–present

Former teams:

• Taugres/TAU Cerámica (1994–00)
• Benetton Treviso (2000–04)
• Unicaja Málaga (2004–06)
• Toronto Raptors (2006–08)
• Khimki Moscow Region (2008-09)

Awards

• All-Euroleague First Team (2003)
• Italian Cup MVP (2004)
• Spanish Cup MVP (2005)
• All-Euroleague Second Team 2006
• Spanish League Finals MVP (2006)
• Mister Europa Player of the Year (2006)
• NBA All-Rookie First Team (2007

Jorge Garbajosa Chaparro, Jr., nicknamed "Garbo" (born December 19, 1977[1]), is a Spanish professional basketball player. At 2.07 m (6 ft 9½ in), he plays both power forward and small forward. He is currently playing with Real Madrid of the Spanish League.

Garbajosa was a member of the Spanish national teams that participated in the 2000 Olympic Basketball Tournament and the 2004 Olympic Basketball Tournament. He also won a bronze medal at the 2001 FIBA European Championship and a silver medal at the 2003 FIBA European Championship.

On September 3, 2006, Garbajosa and the Spanish national team won the gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, he scored a game high 20 points and collected 10 rebounds in the final against the Greek national team. He averaged 12.6 points and 5.3 rebounds in the tournament. In addition to winning the gold medal, Garbajosa made the All-Tournament team, along with teammate Pau Gasol.

On January 1, 2007, Garbajosa was named Mister Europa 2006 by an Italian weekly magazine, SuperBasket. Other NBA players given this award are Dirk Nowitzki (2005) and Pau Gasol (2004).

At the 2007 FIBA European Championship, Garbajosa again featured for the Spanish team. He averaged 7.8 points per game and 3.1 rebounds per game in the nine games he played, but Spain lost 59–60 to the Russian national team in the final.

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Sunday's Reflexions on Basketball Statistics:
Calculating Standard Deviation in Basketball

"... The standard deviation is one of several indices of variability that statisticians use to measure of the spread or dispersion (the data values in a sample are not all the same.

This variation between values is called dispersion) among the measures in a given population.

To calculate the standard deviation of a population it is first necessary to calculate that population's variance. Numerically, the standard deviation is the square root of the variance.

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Unlike the variance, which is a somewhat abstract measure of variability, the standard deviation can be readily conceptualized as a distance along the scale of measurement.

The more widely the values are spread out, the larger the standard deviation.
For example, say we have two separate lists of exam results from a team of 15 players; one ranges from 31% to 98%, the other from 82% to 93%, then the standard deviation would be larger for the results of the first exam. ..."

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