Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso is a Dominican professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was the starting center on their back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association national championships teams in 2006 and 2007. Horford was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He is a five-time NBA All-Star and is the highest paid Latin American basketball player. His father, Tito Horford, played three years in the NBA and several more overseas.
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Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso is a Dominican professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was the starting center on their back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association national championships teams in 2006 and 2007. Horford was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He is a five-time NBA All-Star and is the highest paid Latin American basketball player. He also represents the Dominican Republic national team. His father, Tito Horford, played three years in the NBA and several more overseas. In 2016, Horford joined the Boston Celtics, a team he played nine seasons with before joining the Celtics in 2016. He holds seven school records, including most career points. As a senior, he was named Class A Player of the Year after averaging 21 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks per game. He became the first Atlanta draftee to earn first team honors since Stacey Augmon in 1991–92. He was the only player unanimously selected to theNBA All-Rookie First Team; he was also runner-up for Rookie ofThe Year honors and was named Rookie of the Month on four occasions. In 2008–09, he started all 67 games he played in for the Hawks, averaging 11 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 0. 9 blocks, and 9 minutes in 81 games. In the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, he helped the Hawks take the eventual champions to a 4–3 series victory over the Celtics.
He has been named to the NBA Hall of Fame three times, most recently in 2011. He won the NBA MVP award in 2010 and the NBA Most Valuable Player award in 2012. In 2013, he won the FIBA World Championship with the New Zealand Misfits, the first Dominican player to do so. He helped his country win a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. He currently plays for the Toronto Raptors of the Basketball League of America (BKN). He is the son of former NBA player TitoHorford, who played for the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knicks between 1996 and 2001. He grew up in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, and attended Grand Ledge High School in Lansing, Michigan. He went on to play for the Michigan Mustangs, who were runners-up in the Adidas Big Time National Tournament. In 2004, he became the fourth player on his team to score 1,000 career points, and required 14 points during the game to reach the milestone, and scored exactly 14. On April 2, 2007, the Gators become the first team to repeat as national champions since the 1991-92 Duke Blue Devils, and the first ever to doing so with the same starting lineup. Three days later, he declared for the NBA draft, and was selected by the Hawks with the 3rd overall pick on June 28, 2007. He joined the Hawks for the 2008-09 season.
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