Olímpio Cipriano | |
Position: | Forward |
Height M: | 1.93 |
Weight Kg: | 93 |
Team: | Petro de Luanda |
League: | BIC Basket Basketball Africa League |
Number: | 32 |
Nationality: | Angolan |
Birth Date: | 1982 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Luanda, Angola |
Career Start: | 2000 |
Years1: | n/a |
Team1: | Sporting de Luanda |
Years2: | 2000–2009 |
Team2: | Primeiro de Agosto |
Years3: | 2009–2018 |
Team3: | Benfica do Libolo |
Years4: | 2018–present |
Team4: | Petro de Luanda |
Olímpio Cipriano (born 9 April 1982) is an Angolan basketball player who currently plays for Petro de Luanda and the Angola national team.[1] A guard,[2] he has been one of the most decorated basketball players in Angolan history, having won 12 Angolan Leagues and 11 Angolan Cups in his career.
Born in Luanda, Cipriano represented the Angola national basketball team on several international tournaments and won four gold AfroBasket medals for his country. Cipriano also won five FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup titles, four with Primeiro and one with Libolo; he was honoured as MVP of the tournament in 2007.
Cipriano played with the Detroit Pistons' summer league team[3] before being cut prior to the start of the 2007–08 NBA season.
Cipriano played with Angola on several tournaments, including the 2004 Summer Olympics and the FIBA Africa Championship 2005. At the 2005 tournament, Cipriano led the Angolans to defeat Senegal to capture first place for the 4th championship in a row. Cipriano was also MVP of the tournament. He was also a member of the Angola squad at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, where he averaged 13.8 points per game, including a high of 33 in a losing effort against Germany.[1]
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|-|style="text-align:left;"|2021|style="text-align:left;"|Petro de Luanda| 6 || 0 || 15.9 || .359 || .324 || .750 || 2.3 || 1.0 || .3 || .0 || 7.0|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career| 6 || 0 || 15.9 || .359 || .324 || .750 || 2.3 || 1.0 || .3 || .0 || 7.0