Al Horford
Al Horford
Alfred Joel "Al" Horford Reynosois a Dominican professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Florida, and was the starting center on the Florida Gators teams that won back-to-back NCAA national championships 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 joining the Celtics in 2016. He also...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth3 June 1986
CityPuerto Plata, Dominican Republic
I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us.
I think we're blocking out. We're just not jumping to get the ball as quickly as we can.
I think we should come back and repeat. That's how I feel about that.
I think at the beginning of the season, he was playing too much to the crowd, especially on the road. We talked to him about controlling his emotions and told him to show his emotions to us, instead of the fans.
Joe was all over the place. He was terrific.
We lost most of our scoring (from a year ago). But we knew we were going to come out here and make this run.
We made up our mind that we had to start going after loose balls and finish out possessions.
This wasn't our style of play at all. Like I said, we had to adjust and play whichever way we had to play, and if that meant grinding it out like that, we got it done.
He was hurt so bad. That's my guy, and I've really got a lot of love for him. A lot of other guys would have quit, but he didn't quit for us. He was going hard.
He was hurt so bad. A lot of other guys would have quit.
We don't get bored, though. We just love playing ball. And every time I play ball I try to win.
Who runs the apartment? They'd probably say I do. I'll say Jo does too, but it's my show.
We were struggling on offense in the first half so I did whatever I had to do to get us going. I knew I had to get everyone fired up.
Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We've changed that image.