Germán Antonio Gabriel Benaches (born November 16, 1980) is a Spanish retired professional

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player. He played as a

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and as a

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Professional career

Gabriel signed with the Liga ACB club Estudiantes in 2009. After spending four years in the club of Madrid, he signed for

Bilbao Basket Club Basket Bilbao Berri S.A.D., commonly known as Bilbao Basket (), also known as Surne Bilbao Basket for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Bilbao, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Bilba ...

. He came back to

Unicaja Unicaja is a Spanish savings bank based in Málaga and chartered as a caja de ahorros providing retail banking services. The banks full name is ''Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Ronda, Cádiz, Almería, Málaga y Antequera'' after the n ...

, his first club, in 2015 once he left Bilbao. On December 2, he left Unicaja. On 4 November 2016, Gabriel announced his retirement from professional basketball.

National team career

After playing with the junior national teams of Spain, Gabriel joined the senior

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. He was selected to play with Spain at the

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Career statistics

EuroLeague

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, 14 , , 1 , , 10.1 , , .514 , , .556 , , .700 , , 2.6 , , .4 , , .4 , , .1 , , 3.9 , , 4.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2007–08 , style="text-align:left;", Unicaja , 18 , , 3 , , 16.6 , , .556 , , .491 , , .692 , , 2.8 , , .8 , , .7 , , .1 , , 8.1 , , 8.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2008–09 , style="text-align:left;", Unicaja , 6 , , 0 , , 9.3 , , .500 , , .467 , , 1.000 , , 1.5 , , .2 , , .7 , , .0 , , 5.7 , , 6.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2014–15 , style="text-align:left;", Unicaja , 7 , , 0 , , 9.0 , , .438 , , .375 , , .714 , , 2.0 , , .6 , , .1 , , .1 , , 3.1 , , 3.4 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:left;", Career , style="text-align:left;", , 45 , , 4 , , 12.4 , , .527 , , .483 , , .704 , , 2.5 , , .6 , , .5 , , .1 , , 5.7 , , 5.9

Professional career

National team career

Career statistics

EuroLeague

References

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