Manu Ginobili will tell you he’s never been one for match memorabilia, but one thing he never planned on letting go of was the matchball from Argentina’s historic gold medal-winning victory over Italy in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Not that that was their most memorable game of their historic run — that would be the USA upset the round before — but Argentina’s run was unprecedented and exciting enough for the leader of The Golden Generation to keep a trinket.
However, as some may have heard, that ball disappeared not long after the game, and in a scene originally cut from the Olympic Channel’s original film The Golden Generation, Ginobili reveals what happened to it.