<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Argentina dances with Ginobili Spurs star has his home country loving this game By FRAN BLINEBURY Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle BAHIA BLANCA, ARGENTINA - This is where Manu Ginobili learned to dance. Not to the sad, soulful melody that has long captivated poets and musicians in his native land. But in free-form, improvisational steps that come from an instinctive, primal rhythm inside his head and are just as seductive. This is the cold, drafty, red-brick building where he initially felt the beat that moved him this way and that way, first as a skinny young kid, then as a gangly, growing teenager. This is the place where he followed the instruction of his father, Jorge, and the lead of his two older brothers, Sebastian and Leandro, in embracing a common game and extracting a unique style to improbable heights. Who ever saw him back then and imagined Ginobili would one day launch himself off the hardwood to soar through a picket fence of defenders and dunk with both his left and right hands? Who ever thought a child of this humble place could rise to fame under the bright lights and in front of the roaring sellout crowds of the NBA and its expanding global audience?</div> Source
