Orlando Antigua
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Record | 23–55 (.295) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 20, 1973 Dominican Republic |
| Playing career | |
| 1989, 1991–1993 | Gigantes de Carolina |
| 1991–1995 | Pittsburgh |
| 1995–2002 | Harlem Globetrotters |
| 1996–1997 | Gigantes de Carolina |
| 2000 | Mets de Guaynabo |
| Position(s) | Forward |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2002–2003 | Mt. Lebanon HS (asst.) |
| 2006–2008 | Pittsburgh (asst.) |
| 2008–2009 | Memphis (asst.) |
| 2009–2014 | Kentucky (asst.) |
| 2013–2015 | Dominican Republic |
| 2014–2017 | South Florida |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 2003–2006 | Pittsburgh (dir. of ops.) |
Orlando Radhames Antigua Fernández (born February 20, 1973), nicknamed "Hurricane", is a former Dominican-American basketball player and former South Florida coach. He is widely known as becoming the first Hispanic and the first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years when he signed in 1995. He was named the head coach of South Florida on March 31, 2014.
Raised in the Bronx, Antigua overcame various obstacles early in his life, among them having to live with a bullet lodged in his head for many years, before he was able to play for the Globetrotters. After his retirement from playing professional basketball he was named an assistant coach for the Pittsburgh Panthers, the Memphis Tigers, and most recently, the Kentucky Wildcats. He is also currently the head coach of the Dominican Republic national basketball team
Antigua was born in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother. The family moved to New York City and lived in the Bronx where he was raised. There Antigua and his two siblings received their primary and secondary education. He attended St. Raymond's High School, where he played basketball.
On Halloween night in 1988, Antigua became the victim of a drive-by shooting and was shot in the head near his left eye. He recovered from the shooting, however the doctors were unable to retrieve the slug from his head. He was back playing basketball just two weeks after the incident and gained media attention as the kid who’d taken a bullet to the head in a drive-by in his rough Bronx neighborhood. During this period of his life Antigua's family also went through a period of homelessness. He kept the family together while housing was secured.
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