Horford is the son of Elizabeth and Tito Horford. His father was the first player born in the Dominican Republic to play in the NBA. His older brother, Al, led the Florida Gators to NCAA basketball championships in 2006 and 2007, and was the third overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft.
BOSTON — When Al Horford was 14 years old, he moved from the Dominican Republic, where he’d been raised by his mother in Santo Domingo, to Michigan, where his father and four of his half-siblings lived. “That was just so awesome,” said Anna Horford, 29, Al’s half sister. “He helped raise us.”
Al Horford’s ethnicity is Dominican – he was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, on 3 June 1986. Horford’s parents are father Tito Horford, and mother Arelis Reynoso.
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