Sandro Mamukelashvili

Sandro Mamukelashvili, Georgian-American basketball player

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Born: May 23, 1999
Age in 2026: 27
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Birth year: 1999

About Sandro Mamukelashvili

Alexander "Sandro" Mamukelashvili (Georgian: ალექსანდრე "სანდრო" მამუკელაშვილი; born 23 May 1999) is an American and Georgian professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Seton Hall Pirates. Mamukelashvili attended Montverde Academy after a stint on a youth team in Biella, Italy. As a junior at Seton Hall, Mamukelashvili missed several weeks with a wrist injury but averaged 11.9 points per game. He was named Big East co-Player of the Year as a senior. == Early life == Mamukelashvili was born in New York City and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia after his family moved to Tbilisi when he was a baby. He is fluent in English, Georgian, Russian, and Italian. His grandmother, Ira Gabashvili, was a member of the Soviet women's national basketball team. Mamukelashvili's older brother David introduced him to basketball at a young age, and Sandro grew up idolizing the Georgian player Zaza Pachulia. David currently teaches English and philosophy at Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey.

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Career and life highlights

Coming into his senior season, Mamukelashvili was named to the Preseason First Team All-Big East, and he was expected to help replace the graduated Myles Powell.
On July 18, 2022, Mamukelashvili was named to the All-NBA Summer League First Team.
At the close of the season, he was named the Big East co-Player of the Year (alongside Collin Gillespie and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl) and won the Haggerty Award as the best player in the New York metropolitan area.
While at Montverde, Pachulia became a mentor to Mamukelashvili and introduced him to several players such as Stephen Curry.

The world when Sandro Mamukelashvili was born

Sandro Mamukelashvili was born in 1999. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1999

#1 song"Believe" – Cher
Top movieAmerican Beauty
Top TV showER
Best-selling bookHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentUS Women's Soccer team wins World Cup on Brandi Chastain's penalty kick
Top headlineY2K fears grip the world as the millennium approaches
Technology milestoneNapster launches — music sharing revolution
Defining fadY2K panic
Notable inventionNapster (peer-to-peer file sharing)
World population6.01 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderBill Clinton
Sports championNew York Yankees (World Series)
Also wonSan Antonio Spurs (NBA)
U.S. population272.7M

1999 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Sandro Mamukelashvili's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1999	2026
Gas	$1.17	$3.45/gal
Average home	$133,300	$435,000
Average income	$50,641	$67,500
Minimum wage	$5.15	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$5.08	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.33	$0.73
Population	272.7M	341 million

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