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Emmanuel Ubilla

American basketball player (born 1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16231589
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Emmanuel Lawrence "Manny" Ubilla (born 26 June 1986) is an American-Puerto Rican professional basketball player for the Czech club NH Ostrava. Standing at 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in), Ubilla mainly plays the point guard position. He played college basketball for the Lackawanna College Falcons and the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights and played professionally in several European countries.

Professional career

During the 2013–14 season, Ubilla played for the Den Helder Kings of the Dutch Basketball League (DBL). Ubilla was the assists leader of the DBL season, as he averaged 5.6 assists over 36 games. Third-seeded Den Helder was eliminated in the semi-finals of the playoffs, losing 3–0 to SPM Shoeters.

On 14 August 2014, Ubilla signed with Tapiolan Honka of the Finnish Korisliiga. After the season, Ubilla signed with Piratas de Quebradillas.

On 26 October 2015, Ubilla signed a one-year contract with Kaposvár of the Hungarian NB I/A.

On 1 August 2016, Ubilla signed with Hungarian side ZTE.

On 19 August 2017, Ubilla signed with Latvian side BK Ventspils of the Latvian Basketball League and the Basketball Champions League. He averaged 11 points, 3.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists in 14 matches in the Basketball Champions League, where Ventspils was eliminated after the regular season.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Emmanuel Ubilla” as american basketball player (born 1986). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2013, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-06-26. The account is most persuasive where Emmanuel, Ubilla and American can be independently traced.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16231589. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from Emmanuel Ubilla” 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.