When Al Horford was 14 years old, he left his home country of the Dominican Republican to pursue a basketball career in the United States. Almost 25 years later, the longtime Celtic returned as the highest-paid Latin American basketball player of all time, and — most importantly — the country’s first-ever NBA champion.
Accompanied by his wife, Amelia Vega, and four kids, Horford made the trip back to the nation where he was born with the Larry O’Brien championship trophy in hand. Joining the the Horford family, Joe Mazzulla and Celtics assistant coach Tony Dobbins also boarded on the JetBlue Celtics aircraft, the Lucky Blue.