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Bobi Klintman (born 6 March 2003) is a Swedish professional basketball player for Virtus Bologna of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. He was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of the 2024 NBA draft.
Klintman was born in Malmö, Sweden, to a Swedish mother and a father from Senegal. He attended Sweden’s RIG Mark Academy in Kinna. In the 2019–20 season, he played 13 games for RIG Mark in the third-tier Basketettan. He continued with RIG Mark in the second-tier Superettan in 2020–21 before the season was cancelled in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He played six games for Borås Basket in the first-tier Basketligan to finish the season.
Klintman enrolled at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire, Kansas, for the 2021–22 U.S. high school year. He was rated a four-star recruit and initially committed to playing college basketball for Maryland. He later decommitted from Maryland and committed to play for Colorado. Klintman decommitted a second time and ultimately signed to play for Wake Forest.
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