height_ft weight_lbs years birth_place draft_year team nationality position draft_round draft_team league draft_pick height_in birth_date article_title image college career_start
6 250 2000 2004 -- 2005 2005 -- 2006 2006 -- 2007 2007 -- -- 2008 2009 -- present 2002 2002 -- 2003 2003 -- 2004 helsinki , finland 2000 torpan pesaro dynamo moscow Žalgiris kaunas aris thessaloniki torpan pojat pojat atlanta hawks tau cerámica skipper bologna scavolini finnish power forward 2 atlanta hawks korisliiga 40 10.25 9 september 1976 hanno möttölä
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hanno möttölä

hanno aleksanteri möttölä -lrb- born 9 september 1976 -rrb- is a finnish professional basketball player .
möttölä previously played for the atlanta hawks in the national basketball association -lrb- nba -rrb- , in the power forward position , where he became the first player from finland to play in the nba .
möttölä attended the university of utah in the united states where he played college basketball under coach rick majerus .
he was a starter on the team that played for the 1998 national championship before losing to kentucky .
after graduation , he was selected in the second round , with the 40th overall pick , in the 2000 nba draft by the atlanta hawks .
he played two seasons with the hawks .
after his time with the hawks , he returned to europe , playing in spain with tau cerámica of the acb , then in italy with skipper bologna -lrb- in the 2003 -- 04 season his team reached the italian championship finals and euroleague final -rrb- and scavolini pesaro -lrb- from 2004 to 2005 -rrb- , in the russian super league with dynamo moscow , in the lithuanian league with Žalgiris kaunas and in the greek a1 league with aris , after signing with the team on 26 july 2007 .
he announced his retirement from basketball on 26 september 2008 , but decided to return to basketball just nine months later .
in september 2009 möttölä signed with the finnish team torpan pojat .
finnish ice hockey players , jarkko ruutu and tuomo ruutu , are möttölä 's second cousins .
