Leandro Bolmaro


Leandro Nicolás Bolmaro is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball player for FC Barcelona Lassa of the Liga ACB. He is considered one of the best international prospects in the 2020 NBA draft.

Early years and youth career

Bolmaro began playing the sport of basketball in his home country of Argentina. He started playing with the youth teams of a local club named Almafuerte de Las Varillas, in Córdoba. On 13 April 2018, he played for the World Team at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Oregon.

Professional career

Argentina

Bolmaro began his pro career on 16 July 2017, when he was 16 years old, after he signed with Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca of the Liga Nacional de Básquet, the top basketball league in Argentina. In 23 games played during the 2017–18 season, Bolmaro averaged 2.0 points, 0.7 rebounds, 0.5 assists, and 0.4 steals, in 7.2 minutes per game. He shot 37.3% overall from the field, 53.6% on 2-point field goals, 17.4% on 3-point field goals, and 75.0% on free throws.

Spain

For the 2018–19 season, Bolmaro moved to Spanish club FC Barcelona. He averaged 10.4 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.2 steals per game for club's the reserve team, while playing in the LEB Oro, Spain's second-tier level league. With the reserve team, he played in a total of 33 games, and averaged 24.1 minutes per game of playing time. He shot 39.6% overall from the field, 45.5% on 2-point field goals, 30.8% on 3-point field goals, and 65.2% on free throws.
In Barcelona's 2019–20 season, he split playing time between Barcelona's reserve team and senior team, which competed in the Liga ACB, the highest level Spanish league, and the EuroLeague. During the 2019–20 Spanish 3rd Division season, while playing with Barcelona's reserve B team, he averaged 14.9 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 1.8 steals, in 26.3 minutes per game, in 9 games played in the Spanish 3rd Division.

National team career

In 2017, Bolmaro won a silver medal with Argentina's Under-17 national team at the FIBA South America Under-17 Championship in Lima, Peru. He averaged a team-high 13.8 points per game. Bolmaro also represented the Argentine Under-19 national team at the 2019 FIBA Under-19 World Cup in Heraklion, Greece, where his team finished in 11th place. He left the tournament's opening game early, with a minor strain. During the tournament, he was Argentina's leading scorer, with an average of 10.8 points per game.