Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso was born June 3,1986 in Puerto Plata Dominican Republic. Nicknamed “Big Al”, Horford is a five-time NBA All-Star and is the highest paid Latin American basketball player. Big Al and his team The Boston Celtics are currently battling it out in the NBA finals with The Golden State Warriors.
Big Al’s father, Tito Horford, played in the NBA for three years and several more in other countries. In 2000, Horford and his family moved to Michigan (USA),there Al became a star in his high school basketball team. holds seven school records, including most career points (1,239).
He played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was the starting center on their back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships teams in 2006 and 2007.
He was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, a team he played nine seasons with before signing with the Celtics as a free agent in the 2016 off-season. On July 1, 2016, Horford became an unrestricted free agent.
The Hawks were optimistic they could reach a new deal with Horford, but after the team committed much of their salary cap to pick up Dwight Howard, it would have taken a max offer to land Horford. Horford signed a four-year, $113 million contract with the Boston Celtics on July 8, and said he was looking forward to working with Celtics head coach Brad Stevens and the rest of the team to bring a championship trophy back to Boston. He made his debut for the Celtics in their season opener on October 26, 2016. By making the NBA Finals, Horford has his 2022-23 salary guarantee jump from $14.5 million to $19.5 million. Horford will get the full $26.5 million in his contract guaranteed if the Celtics win the NBA Finals.
Big Al is married to Dominican supermodel, actress, singer, and a former Miss Universe winner, Amelia Vega. She won the Miss Universe competition back in 2003.
When she won Miss Universe, she set a few records in addition to being the first Dominican to win Miss Universe, Amelia was also the youngest winner since 1994, at the time, at just 18 years old. She also broke another record as the tallest to win the title, and she still remains the tallest Miss Universe winner in the pageants history.
Apart from her Miss Universe honors, she has also come out with multiple songs and played parts in a couple of movies. This successful duo met in Boston, but when did they officially become a pair?
Together, the Dominican power couple live in Boston, where they are raising their four young children: seven-year-old Ean, five-year-old Alía, and three-year-old Ava, and 1-year-old Nova.
