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Marcin Gortat

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Marcin Gortat with the Phoenix Suns in 2011.

Marcin Janusz Gortat (born February 17, 1984 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish basketball player who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns as a Power forward and Center.

He has also played for the Orlando Magic from 2008 to 2010 before being traded to the Phoenix Suns along with Vince Carter, Mickael Pietrus, a 2011 first-round draft pick, and $3 million for Hedo Türkoğlu, Jason Richardson, and Earl Clark.

Gortat is also the creator of the famous "Gortat Screen" a basketball play widely regarded as one of the most unstoppable moves, as Lebron James and JJ Redick said on the Mind The Game podcast[1]

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  1. Mind the Game (2024-04-10), The Spacing, The Icons and The Block | LeBron James & JJ Redick | Mind the Game, retrieved 2025-02-27

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