The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Dominican Republic
This page contains a list of the greatest Dominican Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 2 of which were born in Dominican Republic. This makes Dominican Republic the birth place of the 55th most number of Basketball Players behind Jamaica, and Uzbekistan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Dominican Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Dominican Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Al Horford (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 44.35, Al Horford is the most famous Dominican Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.
Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso (born June 3, 1986), nicknamed Big Al, is a Dominican professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a five-time NBA All-Star and an NBA champion. Horford played college basketball for the Florida Gators and was the starting center on their back-to-back National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship teams in 2006 and 2007. He was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, with whom he played nine seasons before signing with the Celtics as a free agent in the 2016 offseason. After three seasons in Boston, Horford played for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Oklahoma City Thunder before being traded back to the Celtics prior to the 2021 season. He reached the NBA Finals with the Celtics in 2022 and 2024, winning his first NBA title in 2024.
2. Francisco García (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 41.98, Francisco García is the 2nd most famous Dominican Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Francisco Alberto García Gutiérrez (born December 31, c. 1981) is a Dominican former professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the NBA. The 6'7", 195-pound swingman played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals before being selected by the Sacramento Kings with the 23rd overall pick of the 2005 NBA draft, where he spent the first seven-plus years of his NBA career. He also played parts of three seasons for the Houston Rockets.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Dominican basketball players born between 1981 and 1986. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Dominican basketball players include Al Horford, and Francisco García.
