Christian Standhardinger
Christian Karl Hermoso Standhardinger (born July 4, 1989) is a Filipino-German professional basketball player for Barangay Ginebra San Miguel of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He has won four PBA championships, two PBA Best Player of the Conference Awards, and one PBA Finals MVP Award.
Standhardinger with the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 34 – Barangay Ginebra San Miguel | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Power forward / center | ||||||||||||||||||||
| League | PBA | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | July 4, 1989 Munich, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino / German | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Erdgas Ehingen (Ehingen, Germany) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 2014: undrafted | ||||||||||||||||||||
| PBA draft | 2017: 1st round, 1st overall | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected by the San Miguel Beermen | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2006–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006–2009 | Ehingen Urspring | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Mitteldeutscher BC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Rasta Vechta | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Hong Kong Eastern | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | San Miguel Beermen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | NorthPort Batang Pier | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Barangay Ginebra San Miguel | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born and raised in Germany, Standhardinger started his career in the 2. Basketball Bundesliga. He then moved to the United States to play college basketball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. After going undrafted in the 2014 NBA draft, he returned to Germany where he was named ProA Player of the Year during his stint with Rasta Vechta. He then played in the ASEAN Basketball League for Hong Kong Eastern.
In the 2017 PBA draft, he was selected first overall by the San Miguel Beermen, with whom he won the 2019 Philippine and Commissioner's Cups. He was then traded to NorthPort and was named Best Player of the Conference in the 2019 Governors' Cup. In 2021 he was traded to Barangay Ginebra, winning the 2021 Governors' and 2022–23 Commissioner's Cups, and was named Finals MVP in the latter. He won his second Best Player of the Conference Award in the 2023 Governors' Cup.
Standhardinger represented the Philippines national team from 2017 to 2023. He played in the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup and 2018 Asian Games and won gold medals in three SEA Games (2017, 2019, and 2023). He also played in the 2018 FIBA 3x3 World Cup. Despite being born to a Filipino mother, Standhardinger is classified by FIBA as a naturalized player, since he acquired his Philippine passport after he turned 16 years old.