One Ginobili is playing in his 14th NBA season. The other is 10-year-old Ginobili San Miguel-Ramirez, who became the most awestruck fifth-grader at the AT&T Center on Monday.
The two Ginobilis met for the first time before the Spurs faced the Jazz, as the younger Ginobili was the Pizza Hut Ball Kid and got to see his namesake live.
“This is the best,” said Ramirez, a student at Perales Elementary. “I’m going to tell everybody at school about it tomorrow.”
Young Ginobili was born on June 5, 2005, a couple of days before the Spurs were to face Detroit in the NBA Finals.