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André Bambu

Brazilian basketball player (born 1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ1760441 ↗
Source-derived summary

André Luiz Quirino Pereira, commonly known as "André Bambu" (born 4 August 1979), is a Brazilian former professional basketball player.

Professional career

Bambu played pro club basketball with Pinheiros in the top-tier Brazilian League. With Pinheiros, he won the FIBA Americas League's 2013 season championship.

National team career

Bambu was a member of the senior men's Brazilian national basketball team. With Brazil, he played at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “André Bambu” as brazilian basketball player (born 1979). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2013, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-08-04. The account is most persuasive where André, Bambu and Brazilian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as brazilian basketball player (born 1979). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1760441. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2013 and 2006.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “André Bambu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.