Michael Howard Finley was born on March 6, 1973 in the city of Melrose park, part of county Cook, state Illinois, USA.
Serves as Shooting guard or small forward and measures a total of 2.01 meters, with an approximate weight of 102 kilograms.
His professional career as a basketball player began after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. He was selected by Phoenix suns in the Draft of the NBA from nineteen ninety five.
As a rookie he had an impressive first season, becoming the nominee for the trophy at Best Rookie of the Year of which he finished third.
With statistics such as 15 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, he became one of the 3 in the history of the Suns to score 1000 points in a single season.
That year things did not go quite well, economically speaking, for the Suns, so they had to let many players go like Jason kidd, Tony dumas, Loren Meyer, Sam cassell and Finley himself who ended up in the Dallas mavericks.
During his first season with the Mavericks, on nineteen ninety six, was the leader of all players, both in points scored and in assists and rebounds.
Despite this, he was not the only player to stand out, since he was part of the offensive trio that people came to call “The Big Three”(The Big Three).
Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash were his attacking partners in almost every game the Dallas mavericks.
During the year 2000 was one of those chosen to represent the western confederation in the Game of stars.
The following year he was awarded this honor again, and for the 2002 represented the team of USA in the Basketball World Championship.
That team sadly lost three games, this being a record since the FIBA opened the international competitions for the players of the NBA.
Despite being one of the most important stars of Dallas mavericks, they should have let him go for financial reasons, since in the USA taxes are extremely important.
Finley had been collecting money for almost three years. $ 51 million and this was about to become a problem for Dallas, so in the 2005 They left him as a free agent.
For this reason equipment of enormous caliber such as the Detroit Pistons, the Miami Heats, and the Phoenix suns they were pressuring him to join their squads.
Yet Finley already had an established life in Texas so he decided to stay there and play for the great championship team: the San antonio spurs.
Within the Spurs he adapted more than well as Manu Ginobili’s replacement, trying to improve his three-point shots as the great Argentine player does.
During the Playoffs of 2006 was beaten up by one of his former teammates Mavericks, and unfortunately they were out of the competition.
The past encounter between Denver Y San antonio in the 2007 gave him a team record, hitting 8 of 9 3-pointers, defeating Bruce Bowen’s previous one.
Currently, Finley along with Brent Barry, Matt Bonner, Bruce Bowen, Jackie Butler, Tim Duncan, Melvin Ely, Manu Ginobili, Tony Parker, Robert Horry, Fabricio Oberto, Jacque Vaughn and James White have become champions of the NBA Championship.
Titles Obtained:
NBA Championship 2007 (San Antonio Spurs)