Career
He is a point guard. He was part of Argentina"s 2004 Olympic gold medal team Pepe Sánchez (193 metres, 6 feet 4 inches tall) was the first Argentine to play in the National Basketball Association. He played two seasons in the National Basketball Association, playing in a total of 38 games with the Philadelphia 76ers (24 games), Atlanta Hawks (5 games), and the Detroit Pistons (9 games), averaging only 5 minutes per game. He also played with the Golden State Warriors, during the National Basketball Association preseason.
Early years
At age 12, he began playing for the youth team of Club Bahiense del Norte, together with future National Basketball Association star Emanuel Ginóbili.
At age 17 he moved to Deportivo Roca for the 1994-1995 season of the Argentine League, where he played point guard. The following year, he accepted a scholarship offer from Temple University in Philadelphia, but stayed in Argentina during the 1995-1996 season, playing for Estudiantes de Bahía Blanca.
After his participation in the 1996 Youth Panamerican Tournament in Puerto Rico, where he represented the junior national team of Argentina, he moved to Philadelphia where he played for the Temple Owls college team for 4 years under Hall of Fame coach John Chaney, and finished his career as the #2 player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in steals (he is currently in third place in career steals). As a junior, the crafty point guard guided the Owls to an appearance in the Elite Eight, where they fell to Duke.
Despite averaging only 5.6 points per game as a senior, he was named a Third Team All-American by the Associated Press.
He earned a degree in history at Temple in 2000. National Basketball Association
In 2000, he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Philadelphia 76ers after not being selected in the National Basketball Association draft, and along with Rubén Wolkowyski, became the first Argentines to play in the National Basketball Association regular season. In 2002 he was signed as a free agent by the Detroit Pistons.
Europe
He also played in the Spanish League with Etosa Alicante.
After three years at Unicaja, he left as a free agent when his contract expired at the end of the 2006-2007 season. On August 13, 2007, he signed with Football Club Barcelona.
In July 2008, he signed with Real Madrid, but he was released in April 2009. Sánchez was first called up to the senior men"s Argentine national basketball team in 1998.
Sánchez"s performance at the 2006 International Basketball Federation World Championship was quite satisfactory, with the Argentine press choosing him as the most outstanding player of the team
