Hanno Aleksanteri Möttölä (born 9 September 1976) is a Finnish basketball coach and a former professional basketball player. He is currently working as a head coach of Helsinki Basketball Academy team HBA-Märsky, and an assistant coach of Finland national team. A power forward, Möttölä played for the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association (NBA), becoming the first player from Finland to play in the NBA.

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Hanno Möttölä

Möttölä, in 2008.
Personal information
Born	(1976-09-09) 9 September 1976 (age 47) Helsinki, Finland
Listed height	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Listed weight	250 lb (113 kg)
Career information
College	Utah (1996–2000)
NBA draft	2000: 2nd round, 40th overall pick
Selected by the Atlanta Hawks
Playing career	1994–2014
Position	Power forward
Number	13
Career history
As player:
1994-1996	Helsingin NMKY
2000–2002	Atlanta Hawks
2002–2003	TAU Cerámica
2003–2004	Skipper Bologna
2004–2005	Scavolini Pesaro
2005–2006	Dynamo Moscow
2006–2007	Žalgiris Kaunas
2007–2008	Aris Thessaloniki
2009–2012	Torpan Pojat
2013	Torpan Pojat
As coach:
2014–present	HBA-Märsky
2019–present	Finland (assistant)
Career highlights and awards
EuroCup champion (2006) Lithuanian League champion (2007) Lithuanian Cup winner (2007) 8× Finnish Player of the Year (1997–2002, 2004, 2005) Finnish League Best Young Player (1995) First-team All-WAC (1999)
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats  at Basketball-Reference.com

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Möttölä attended the University of Utah, in the United States, where he played college basketball under head coach Rick Majerus. He was a starter on the Utah Utes team that played in the final of the 1998 NCAA national championship tournament, which they lost to Kentucky.

After college, Möttölä was selected in the second round, with the 40th overall pick, in the 2000 NBA draft, by the Atlanta Hawks. He played two seasons in the NBA with the Hawks. He played in all 82 games during his sophomore (and final) season. His final NBA game was on April 17, 2002, in a 81–89 loss to the Boston Celtics where he recorded 1 steal and 2 rebounds. After his time with the Hawks, he returned to Europe. He played in Spain, with TAU Cerámica of the ACB, then in Italy, with Skipper Bologna (in the 2003–04 season, his team reached the Italian League finals and EuroLeague Final). He also played in Italy with Scavolini Pesaro (from 2004 to 2005).

Möttölä also played in the Russian Super League with Dynamo Moscow, in the Lithuanian LKL League with Žalgiris Kaunas, and in the Greek Basket League (GBL) with Aris, after signing with the team on 26 July 2007.^[1]

Möttölä announced his retirement from playing basketball on 26 September 2008,^[2] but decided to return to basketball just nine months later.^[3] In September 2009, Möttölä signed with the Finnish team Torpan Pojat. He played in the team for four seasons, during which the team was the runner-up in the Finnish League championship (2009–10), in the Finnish Cup (2010–11), and finished in third-place in Finnish League (2011–12).^[4]

Möttölä was a long-time member of the senior Finnish national basketball team. With Finland, he played at the 1995 EuroBasket, the 2011 EuroBasket, the 2013 EuroBasket, and the 2014 FIBA World Cup.^[5]

After ending his playing career, Möttölä has worked as the head coach of Helsinki Basketball Academy team HBA-Märsky in second-tier Koripallon I-divisioona, and an assistant coach of Finland national team since 2019.

Finnish ice hockey players, Jarkko Ruutu and Tuomo Ruutu, are Möttölä's second cousins.^[6]