Kristaps Porzingis Net Worth 2020, Wiki, Forbes, Cars, Family and Career

Kristaps Porzingis Net Worth 2020: A fast-rising Latvian professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Formerly of the New York Knicks, this center–who was the fourth NBA draft pick in 2015–is known for his athleticism and his ability to score.

In his rookie season, he set an NBA rookie record by scoring over 1,000 points and more than 75 three-pointers.

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Biography of Kristaps Porzingis

Family/ Early life:

Born 2 August 1995) in Liepāja, is a Latvian professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Porziņģis was born to parents who had experience playing the game of basketball.

He first touched a basketball when he was six years old, by his early youth he was playing for his hometown team of BK Liepājas Lauvas.

Tālis, his father, competed semi-professionally before becoming a bus driver. His mother, Ingrīda, was previously on Latvia women’s youth national basketball team.

Kristaps’s older brother, Jānis, also played professionally, while , who is approximately fifteen years older than his youngest sibling, was also an avid player. In a 2017 E:60 documentary on Porziņģis’ life, his parents revealed that they had another son, Toms, who was born four years before Kristaps and died at 14 months.

Through an interpreter, said about Toms’ death, “It felt like a bulldozer had run over my life. We had two other children who we had to care for. We had to live on. After Kristaps was born, it was like he had to live for two lives.

He is known to mentor his younger brother on and off the court and often called him after playing games for Cajasol Sevilla in Spain. Kristaps talked about the relationship in an interview

Kristaps Porzingis Career:

Porziņģis followed his parents’ footsteps and started to play basketball at age 6. Once he turned 12, his older brother, Jānis, who played professionally in Europe, would take Porziņģis to offseason training sessions.

He played in youth competition with BK Liepājas Lauvas, the most famous club based in his hometown of Liepāja, until he was 15 years old. An agent from Latvia sent a video of him around this time to teams in Spain and Italy. Porziņģis debuted for the youth squad on 4 January 2012, against its counterpart from Barcelona, adding 12 points and 10 rebounds.

The opposing side was led by Alexander Zhigulin, who would go on to enter the 2015 NBA draft and withdraw. However, Sevilla was defeated, 56-75. This game was part of the Ciutat de L’Hospitalet tournament, which led up to the Nike International Junior Tournament (NIJT).

On 5 January, he scored a personal best of 16 points on the Spars Sarajevo youth squad, helping Sevilla beat their opponents by a margin of 8 points. The Dallas Mavericks acquired Porziņģis in a trade-in 2019.

Kristaps Porzingis Personal Life:

Porziņģis was born to parents who had experience playing the game of basketball. Tālis, his father, competed semi-professionally before becoming a bus driver. His mother, Ingrīda, was previously on Latvia women’s youth national basketball team.

Kristaps’s older brother, Jānis, also played professionally, while Mārtiņš, who is approximately fifteen years older than his youngest sibling, was also an avid player.

Jānis Porziņģis competed at the European 2nd tier EuroCup level, the same level in Europe that Kristaps later played at, in one game, and played European professional club basketball in various national leagues, including the Italian League, for more than 10 years.

Following two seasons in Spain and almost two years living in Seville, Porziņģis was able to speak Spanish far more fluently. Porziņģis is thus fluent in three different languages, including English. Kristaps Porzingis is twenty-two currently and is not involved in any kind of public romantic relationship or affairs. He has not been caught dating any girlfriends to date.

However, Porzingis was rumored to be dating Abigail Ratchford, an actress, and model.