 Ginóbili comes from a family of basketball players.His oldest brother, Leandro, retired in 2003 after seven years in the Argentine basketball league, while brother Sebastián has played in both the Argentine local league and in the Spanish 2nd-tier level Liga Española de Baloncesto.Their father Jorge was a coach at a club in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, where Ginóbili learned to play the game.