Al Horford He was the main protagonist of Boston Celtics win over Golden State Warriors in the first match of the NBA Finals.
The 36-year-old veteran Dominican player added 26 points (6 of 8 in triples), 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal.
The Celtics beat the Warriors and take a 1-0 lead in the NBA Finals
Al Horford: “I am grateful for this opportunity”
“We keep playing, they are a great team and for us it wasn’t the best game, but we keep fighting and find a way to win this game,” Horford said after Boston’s victory in statements published by the EFE news agency.
“I am grateful for this opportunity. I am excited, delighted to share this with our group of boys,” Horford said on his 36th birthday.
Smart, Horford’s teammate at the Celtics, surrendered to the Dominican’s great performance: “Nobody deserves to be here more than him, because of how he takes care of himself, because of his professionalism. He continues to string together great games, that’s what he does for us.”
How did Al Horford return to the Boston Celtics?: “When I found out about my signing, I screamed in the car”
Al Horford returned to the Celtics this summer after playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder, with whom he averaged 14.2 points and 6.7 rebounds.
“When they told me to go back to Boston, I was in the car after visiting my mother in Atlanta, and I started screaming,” he confessed.
Horford, who already played for the Celtics from 2016 to 2019, explained that “when my signing was finalized, I saw the potential of this group, I saw that I had already played with many of these guys, and I knew that we could have a chance to succeed, It’s something I believed in from the beginning, I’m grateful to be here.”
In his 950 NBA games, Al Horford, who is playing his first finals, has averages of 13.7 points and 8.2 rebounds.
Al Horford is the son of an NBA and is married to a Miss Universe
Al Horford was born in the Dominican Republic and is the son of a professional basketball player named Tito Horford – a former Milwaukee Bucks player between 1988 and 1990 – who did not reach the level that his successful offspring exhibits today.
The Celtics pvot has been married since 2011 to Amelia Vega, winner of the Miss Universe pageant in 2003.
Amelia Vega was very eloquent when asked what made her fall in love with her Al Horford. Neither short nor lazy I answered: “his size”in addition to the fact that “he carries me in his arms with hardly any effort”.