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Guillermo Diaz Update
Jul/16/07 11:12 AM | Permalink
Guillermo Diaz has struggled with his shot this summer.  He's 14 for 44 in 4 games (32%) which does not bode well for his odds of making the team as a combo guard.  He'll have another chance to prove himself in camp in October, but he's got to be feeling the pressure at this point.

(clipsnation.com)
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In Vegas: Guillermo Diaz Won’t Stop Trying
Jul/11/07 10:06 AM | Permalink
It’s tempting. Leave the dorm rooms and homework assignments behind for an NBA contract and all that goes along with the multimillion dollar lifestyle. But sometimes the fantasy doesn’t become a reality, even after a player is selected by an NBA team. Guillermo Diaz learned that a draft pick doesn’t guarantee a roster spot, but that’s no reason to stop trying.

Diaz’s journey to the NBA began last summer. He left the University of Miami after his junior year and was expected to make it in the league. The guard impressed the Los Angeles Clippers with his high scoring and accurate shot, and they selected him with the 52nd pick in the 2006 draft. But what would have been his rookie season in LA turned into a year in Europe.

From sunny Miami to the Czech Republic and Greece, Diaz grew as a ball player while he grew as an adult, too. Thousands of miles away from home, the 22-year-old from Puerto Rico learned about life.
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Guillermo Diaz Update
Jun/26/07 10:17 AM | Permalink
In other news, Guillermo Diaz, a second-round pick from last season, will be on the Clippers' summer league team and has a shot at making the roster.

(dailybreeze.com)
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Guillermo Diaz not giving up on NBA dream yet
Jun/11/07 05:23 PM | Permalink
This is a cautionary tale for Arron Afflalo, Marcus Williams, Glen Davis and maybe Wilson Chandler.

Guillermo Diaz's story is like those of so many other players who declare early for the NBA draft and sign with an agent. Diaz, like the players mentioned above in this year's draft, didn't test the draft process. He was in a year ago as soon as Miami's season ended.

But unlike Texas' Daniel Gibson, who is flourishing as a second-round pick with Cleveland in the playoffs, Diaz wasn't as fortunate.

He wasn't doing dishes as a side gig either. He was simply in Europe, playing in the Czech Republic and Greece. And now he's back in the states this spring, training in Las Vegas, getting ready to be on the L.A. Clippers' summer-league team. He's doing all that with the hope that this time the Clippers, who drafted him No. 52 in the 2006 second round, will keep him on the squad for training camp and into next season.
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Guillermo Diaz Update
Jan/07/07 01:49 PM | Permalink
The Clippers had an opportunity to sign their 2006 second round draft pick Guillermo Diaz after he decided not to return to his team from the Czech Republic, Nymburk, following his Christmas vacation, but apparently declined.

(draftexpress.com)
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Shiver and Shoot - A UM star headed for the NBA detours to the Czech Republic
Nov/23/06 11:21 AM | Permalink
Guillermo Diaz lives in a small medieval town with a cobblestone square, an ancient castle, and a Gothic church. He works in another one. But before he explains, let him tell you about the weather.

"I can't go out — it's too cold," he says, visibly shuddering. "Hits me in the face real good."

It's actually quite balmy for a November night in Nymburk, Czech Republic — 50-odd degrees, no biting wind whipping up the Elbe river. But for a 21-year-old who has lived only in San Juan and Miami, that's a whole new ball game.
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Culture shock to his system (Guillermo Diaz)
Nov/14/06 09:37 AM | Permalink
NYMBURK, CZECH REPUBLIC — Guillermo Diaz, who grew up in Puerto Rico speaking only Spanish, never dreamed his life would take this kind of a twist.

But now that the Clippers' second-round draft pick is playing his rookie season of pro basketball in the Czech Republic, he has become so desperate for English-language programming that he recently installed a satellite dish that shows mostly soccer games from Britain.

"At least I can understand what they are saying," Diaz said. "Before that, all I had were Czech stations."
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Ex-UM Diaz guard to play in Europe
Sep/23/06 10:27 AM | Permalink
Former University of Miami guard Guillermo Diaz, who left school early to enter the NBA Draft, will begin his professional career playing in the Czech Republic.

Diaz, who was taken in the second round in June by the Los Angeles Clippers, will begin playing for Nymburk, the defending league champion, according to his high school coach and mentor, Art Alvarez.
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Guillermo Diaz Update
Sep/03/06 06:30 PM | Permalink
The team may have reached an understanding with Guillermo Diaz – word is Diaz may opt to play in Italy next year rather than force the issue with the Clippers. The Clips paid Diaz’s way to Tim Grgurich’s camp in Vegas and liked what they saw, but were supposedly not ready to guarantee a roster spot just yet. If Diaz does choose to play in Italy, the Clips will retain his rights, and he could be a lock for a roster spot next year.
(hoopsworld.com)
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