Anthony Pérez (basketball)
Appearance
No. 13 – Trotamundos de Carabobo | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Small forward / Power forward | ||||||||||||||
League | LPB | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Sucre, Venezuela | 29 September 1993||||||||||||||
Nationality | Venezuelan | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 213 lb (97 kg) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Word of Life (Wichita, Kansas) | ||||||||||||||
College | Ole Miss (2012–2016) | ||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2016: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2016–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Soles de Mexicali | ||||||||||||||
2017–present | Trotamundos de Carabobo | ||||||||||||||
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Anthony "Tony" Pérez-Cortesia (born 29 September 1993) is a Venezuelan professional basketball player, who represented Venezuela at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
College career
Pérez played college basketball at Ole Miss, with the Ole Miss Rebels,[1] in the United States, where his head coach, Andy Kennedy, called him one of the "greatest mysteries" he's ever coached.[2] This was based on his ability to sharp shoot on certain nights.[3]
Professional career
Pérez began his pro career in 2016, with the Mexican League club Soles de Mexicali.
National team career
Pérez has been a member of the senior men's Venezuelan national basketball team. He played at the 2016 South American Championship, where he won a gold medal, and at the 2016 Olympic Games.[4]
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Categories:
- 1993 births
- Living people
- Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players of Venezuela
- People from Sucre
- Power forwards (basketball)
- Small forwards
- Soles de Mexicali players
- Trotamundos B.B.C. players
- Venezuelan expatriate basketball people in Mexico
- Venezuelan expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Venezuelan men's basketball players
- 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- Venezuelan sportspeople stubs
- South American basketball biography stubs