Patty Mills

Patrick Sammy "Patty" Mills (born 11 August 1988) is an Australian professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Mills is the second Indigenous Australian to play in the NBA (after Nathan Jawai) and is of Torres Strait Islander descent. Mills was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 55th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Saint Mary's College of California. He also played for the Melbourne Tigers of the National Basketball League and the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association during the NBA lockout. He signed with the San Antonio Spurs in 2012 and won an NBA championship with them in 2014. He plays the point guard position. Mills led the 2012 Olympics in scoring when he averaged with 21.2 points per game with the Australian national basketball team, the Boomers. 2Early life and career Mills' father is a Torres Strait Islander from Thursday Island and his mother is an Indigenous Australian from the Ynunga people of South Australia. His uncle is former Boomer and 1980 and 1984 Olympian Danny Morseu. He was first exposed to basketball as a four-year-old with The Shadows, an Indigenous Australian team that his parents establishe