Australian professional basketball player Matthew William Dellavedova is a member of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an Italian Australian of sixth generation who was born and raised in Maryborough, Victoria.
He participated in a variety of sports as a junior, such as basketball, tennis, soccer, and Australian rules football. He was fairly successful as a wing in football, but he decided to focus only on basketball.
Dellavedova began playing basketball as a junior with the Maryborough Blazers and Bendigo Braves. She later spent three years on a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra.
He had an early impact on the Saint Mary’s College of California Gaels basketball team, starting all 34 games as a rookie and helping them win the 2010 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
He earned a psychology degree from Saint Mary’s in 2013 and currently owns multiple records for the college’s men’s basketball team, including most assists and points scored.
When the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA title in 2016, Dellavedova was a member of the team. In addition, he competed for Australia and took home a bronze medal from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Matthew Dellavedova Height: how tall is Matthew Dellavedova?
Matthew Dellavedova stands 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall. His jersey number was retired by Saint Mary’s College of California in 2014, and he was inducted into the Lake Ginninderra Hall of Fame in 2017.