HERNANGOMEZ Willy

Date of Birth: 27 May 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 2.09/6'10''

Place of birth: MADRID

Birth Country:

Spain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Basketball	Men ESP Spain	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group C #08 JPN Japan 77 ESP Spain 88	Finished
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group C #20 ESP Spain 81 ARG Argentina 71	Finished
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group C #31 ESP Spain 87 SLO Slovenia 95	Finished
	Saitama Super Arena	Men's Quarterfinal #39 ESP Spain 81 USA United States 95	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2019	People's Republic of China

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Men	2017

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

New Orleans Pelicans [United States of America] since 2020/21

Stan Van Gundy [club], USA; Sergio Scariolo [national], ITA

Position style:

Power forward (nba.com, 20 Feb 2020)

Sporting relatives:

His father Guillermo Hernangomez played basketball for Real Madrid and Estudiantes in Spain, while his mother Wonny Geuer represented Spain in the sport at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. His brother Juancho has played in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets and the Minnesota Timberwolves, and also won the 2019 World Cup with Spain. His sister Andrea has played at college level for Fairfield University in Connecticut, United States of America. (nba.com, 20 Feb 2020; fairfieldstags.com, 18 Feb 2020; as.com, 15 Sep 2019; endesabasketlover.com, 16 Jul 2014; feb.es, 03 May 2013)

2015 for Spain, European Championships in Berlin, Germany (nba.es, 19 Dec 2019)

National league:

NBA [USA] (cope.es, 23 Nov 2020)

He comes from a family of basketball players. (cuatro.com, 19 Aug 2015)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (tokyo2020.org, 06 Nov 2020)

Winning the 2019 World Cup in the People's Republic of China with Spain. (as.com, 15 Sep 2019)

Spanish basketball players Pau Gasol and Marc Gasol. (gigantes.com, 23 Jan 2020)

General Interest

General
NBA DRAFT
He was selected in the second round, 35th pick overall, by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2015 NBA Draft. His rights were traded to the New York Knicks, who he played for between 2016 and 2018. He then signed for the Charlotte Hornets. In 2020 he signed for the New Orleans Pelicans. (basketball.reference.com, 24 Nov 2020; nba.com, 07 Feb 2018)

NAME PRONUNCIATION
He often has to explain how to pronounce his name. "It's 'Billy'. If you write my name, it's with a 'W', so everyone thinks it's 'Willy'. But my mother was from Germany. In Germany, everyone with a [name that starts with 'W'] is pronounced with a 'B'. So that's my name. I'm going to try to explain that to everybody. But I don't care. It doesn't matter if someone calls me Willy or Billy." (espn.go.com, 12 Jul 2016)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
In 2018 he and his brother Juancho set up Campus Hermanos Hernangomez, a basketball programme in Madrid, Spain. (campushernangomez.com, 01 Feb 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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