Marcelinho Machado

Marcelinho Machado

No. 4 – Flamengo
Position	Small forward / Shooting guard
League	NBB
Personal information
Born	(1975-04-12) 12 April 1975 (age 41) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Listed height	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight	202 lb (92 kg)
Career information
Playing career	1995–present
Career history
1995–1996	Fluminense
1996–1997	Tijuca
1997–1998	Corinthians (RS)
1998–2001	Botafogo
2001–2002	Fluminense
2002–2003	Rimini Crabs
2003–2004	Alerta Cantabria Lobos
2004–2005	Telemar/Rio de Janeiro
2005	Uberlândia
2006–2007	Žalgiris Kaunas
2007–present	Flamengo
Career highlights and awards
5× NBB champion (2009, 2013–2016) 2× NBB Most Valuable Player (2009, 2010) 5× NBB All-Star (2009–2012, 2014) NBB All-Star Game MVP (2010) 2× NBB First Team (2009–2010) 3× NBB scoring champion (2009–2011) 2× Three-Point Tournament champion (2014, 2015) South American League MVP (2009) FIBA Americas Championship MVP (2005) FIBA Americas League champion (2014) FIBA Americas League Grand Finals MVP (2014) FIBA Intercontinental Cup champion (2014)
Medals Men’s Basketball Representing  Brazil Pan American Games 1999 Winnipeg National Team 2003 Santo Domingo National Team 2007 Rio de Janeiro National Team FIBA Americas Championship 2001 Neuquén National Team 2005 Santo Domingo National Team 2009 San Juan National Team 2011 Mar del Plata National Team South American Championship 2003 Montevideo National Team 2004 Campos dos Goytacazes National Team

Marcelo "Marcelinho" Magalhães Machado (born 12 April 1975) is a Brazilian professional basketball player with Flamengo in the NBB and the senior men's Brazilian national basketball team.

Machado currently plays for the Brazilian club Flamengo. He started his career playing for Fluminense, a team from Rio de Janeiro, one of the greatest Flamengo's rivals. He emerged as one of the greatest hopes of Brazilian basketball as a career then idol Oscar Schmidt was ending, mainly due to the similarities of their game, a player who threw a lot of balls three and did many points. He was soon called to the national team to play the 1999 Pan American Games, in Winnipeg, Canada. The Brazilian team won the tournament, after a win over the American team. He went through teams like Botafogo, Tijuca, Ginástico (MG), Corinthians (PR), Crabs Rimini (ITA), Alerta Lobos Cantabria (ESP), Telemar/Rio de Janeiro, with whom Marcelinho won the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete, after a final series against Unitri/Uberlândia, which would be his next team, in 2005. After he played fpr Uberlândia, Machado went to Lithuania to defend the main team of the country, Žalgiris Kaunas. He stayed in Lithuania until 2007, when he signed with Flamengo. He just won his third Pan American Games, realized in Rio de Janeiro.

The arrival of Marcelinho to Flamengo created much expectation around the team, who had never won the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete, not even on the Oscar Schmidt Era. Together with Marcelinho, arrived to the team his brother, the guard Duda Machado, the guard Hélio Lima and other important players.

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