Augusto Lima
| No. 22 – Real Madrid | |
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| Position | Power forward / Center |
| League | Liga ACB Euroleague |
| Personal information | |
| Born | September 17, 1991 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian / Spanish |
| Listed height | 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) |
| Listed weight | 260.1 lb (118 kg) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 2013 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2009–present |
| Career history | |
| 2009–2011 | Unicaja |
| 2009–2011 | → Clínicas Rincón |
| 2011 | CB Granada |
| 2011–2013 | Unicaja |
| 2013–2016 | UCAM Murcia |
| 2016–present | Real Madrid |
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Augusto César Lima Brito (born September 17, 1991) is a Brazilian professional basketball player. He is 6'10" (2.08m) tall[1] and he can play as either a power forward or a center. He currently plays for Real Madrid in the Liga ACB of Spain. He is left handed, but at the age of ten, his parents forced him to learn to write and shoot with the right.[2] He was born in Rio de Janeiro.
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Professional career
Lima went to Unicaja at 16, to play with the junior teams of the organization. He also combined his playing time with Málaga's farm team, Clínicas Rincón, of the Liga EBA.
Under coach Aíto García Reneses, in 2009–10, in 9 games played in the Spanish League, he averaged 6.4 points and 3.7 rebounds, in 15 minutes per game.
In the next season of 2010–11, his playing time in the Spanish League was limited to 7 games, with an average playing time of 4.6 minutes per game, with his numbers dropping down to 1.7 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 0.3 blocks per game.
Nevertheless, that same season, the Brazilian player had his first good performance in a Euroleague game, in which he also produced his best performance of the season, in a game against Brose Baskets, the leader of the German League, in which Lima scored 14 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. He averaged 2.9 points and 3.1 rebounds per game during the Euroleague 2010–11 season.
In 2011, he was transferred to CB Granada, to fill the empty roster space following the departure of Robert Kurz, in the inside game of CB Granada, sharing minutes with Paulão Prestes.
In the 2011–12 season, he returned to Clínicas Rincón, a subsidiary of Unicaja, while also playing in 17 games in the Spanish League with the senior men's first team, but with little continuity, due to not having a European passport. On January 26, 2012, Lima acquired spanish citizenship.
On 25 January 2016, Lima agreed a contract until the 2017–18 season with Real Madrid.[3][4]
Brazilian national team
Lima was a member of the senior men's Brazilian national basketball team that won the silver medal at the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship in Mar del Plata, Argentina, which qualified Brazil for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great-Britain.
In 2013, Lima was summoned again to the Brazilian senior men's team, led by head coach Rubén Magnano, for the initial training phase before the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship, but due to a herniated disc, he had to be cut from the training of the team.[5]
2013 NBA Draft
In 2013, Lima was registered in the 2013 NBA Draft, but he was not drafted.
References
- ↑ Augusto Lima nombre completo: Augusto Cesar Lima Brito lugar y fecha de nac: Rio de Janeiro, 17/09/1991 posición | altura | peso: P | 2.08 m (Spanish).
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External links
- Articles with Spanish-language external links
- Use mdy dates from August 2012
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Brazilian basketball players
- Baloncesto Málaga players
- CB Murcia players
- Centers (basketball)
- Liga ACB players
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Brazil
- Power forwards (basketball)
- Real Madrid Baloncesto players
