The best generation of Spanish basketball not only conquered the world on the courts. To their astonishing successes between baskets – from the 2006 World Cup to Olympic medals and continental golds – the gold juniors and company have added eye-catching resumes to their careers.

Most triumphed with the ball and in the offices afterwards. The biggest and most recent example is the election of Jorge Garbajosa as president of FIBA Europe last Saturday in Munich. For something Dr. Naismith created basketball in the classrooms of a high school in Springfield (Massachusetts)