Hanno Möttölä

Hanno Möttölä
Torpan Pojat
Position	Power forward
League	Korisliiga
Personal information
Born	9 September 1976 (age 47); Helsinki, Finland
Nationality	Finnish
Listed height	6 ft 10.25 in (2.09 m)
Listed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Career information
College	Utah (1996–2000)
NBA draft	2000: 2nd round, 40th overall pick
	Selected by the Atlanta Hawks
Playing career	2000–present
Career history
2000–2002	Atlanta Hawks
2002–2003	TAU Cerámica
2003–2004	Skipper Bologna
2004–2005	Scavolini Pesaro
2005–2006	Dynamo Moscow
2006–2007	Žalgiris Kaunas
2007–2008	Aris Thessaloniki
2009–present	Torpan Pojat
Career highlights and awards
	First-team All-WAC (1999);
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Hanno Aleksanteri Möttölä (born 9 September 1976) is a Finnish professional basketball player. Möttölä previously played for the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA), in the power forward position, where he became the first player from Finland to play in the NBA.

Möttölä attended the University of Utah in the United States where he played college basketball under coach Rick Majerus. He was a starter on the team that played for the 1998 national championship before losing to Kentucky. After graduation, he was selected in the second round, with the 40th overall pick, in the 2000 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He played two seasons with the Hawks. After his time with the Hawks, he returned to Europe, playing in Spain with TAU Cerámica of the ACB, then in Italy with Skipper Bologna (in the 2003–04 season his team reached the Italian championship finals and Euroleague final) and Scavolini Pesaro (from 2004 to 2005), in the Russian Super League with Dynamo Moscow, in the Lithuanian league with Žalgiris Kaunas and in the Greek A1 league with Aris, after signing with the team on 26 July 2007.^[1]

He announced his retirement from basketball on 26 September 2008,^[2] but decided to return to basketball just nine months later.^[3] In September 2009 Möttölä signed with the Finnish team Torpan Pojat.

Finnish ice hockey players, Jarkko Ruutu and Tuomo Ruutu, are Möttölä's second cousins.^[4]

Career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	PIR	Performance Index Rating
Bold	Career high

Euroleague


Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG	PIR
2002–03	TAU Cerámica	7	3	30.4	.569	.444	.774	3.4	1.0	.7	.3	15.1	13.6
2003–04	Skipper Bologna	22	16	21.8	.520	.348	.879	3.8	.4	.8	.4	10.8	9.2
2004–05	Scavolini Pesaro	22	16	28.6	.497	.375	.833	5.1	.9	1.0	.5	13.7	12.2
2006–07	Žalgiris	12	5	22.6	.547	.500	.806	3.9	1.3	.5	.5	10.9	9.8
2007–08	Aris	20	16	19.7	.488	.459	.824	2.8	.7	.4	.1	8.0	6.0
Career		83	56	23.9	.516	.406	.833	3.9	.8	.7	.3	11.3	9.7

References

External links

Template:Finland Squad EuroBasket 2011 Template:Finland Squad EuroBasket 2013 Template:Finland Squad 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup

[1] Aris inks big men Mottola and Agadakos

[2] Hanno Mottola of Finland retires

[3] El pívot finés ha decidido regresar a la competición tras nueve meses de retiro (in Spanish)

[4] Tuomo Ruutu; ihanfinaalissa.fi

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