Leonel Ditutala Paulo (born 30 April 1986) is an Angolan basketball player who last played for

Sangalhos DC Sangalhos Desporto Clube, better known as Sangalhos DC, is a Portuguese basketball club from Sangalhos. The team plays in the Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol. Sangalhos played in the 1994–95 FIBA Korać Cup The 1994–95 FIBA Korać Cup was the ...

and formerly for the Angola national team. Standing at , he plays as power forward. Paulo is one of the most decorated players currently active, having won six Angolan League titles, including MVP honours in 2015. He had his most successful stints with Petro de Luanda, where he was the club's captain and played a total of fourteen seasons, from 2004 to 2008 and 2012 to 2022. Since then, he has been a free agent. Paulo joined his first foreign club,

in Portugal, signing a one-year contract in November 2022. Paulo played for and captained Angola at various international competitions, including the team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.Player Profile
Yahoo! Sports He also won two

AfroBasket The AfroBasket (alternatively known as the FIBA Africa Championship, FIBA African Championship, or FIBA AfroBasket) is the men's basketball continental championship contested by the senior national teams of Africa Africa is the world's s ...

championships with his country, in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

BAL career statistics

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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* 1986 births Living people 2010 FIBA World Championship players 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup players African Games gold medalists for Angola African Games gold medalists in basketball Angolan men's basketball players 21st-century Angolan sportsmen Atlético Petróleos de Luanda basketball players Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics C.D. Primeiro de Agosto men's basketball players Basketball players at the 2007 All-Africa Games Medalists at the 2007 All-Africa Games C.R.D. Libolo basketball players Olympic basketball players for Angola Power forwards {{Angola-basketball-bio-stub