Orlando Radhames Antigua Fernández is a coach and basketball player born in the Dominican Republic. He is notable for a couple of things. He was raised in the Bronx and on Halloween night he was the victim of a drive-by shooting and had a bullet lodged in his head near his left eye. Doctors were unable to remove the slug. He started playing ball again in two months.
Antigua's basketball play was good enough to earn him a scholarship to Pitt, and after he graduated from there in 1995, he became the first non-black player on the Harlem Globetrotters' roster since Bob Karstens in 1943. He was the head coach at South Florida for three seasons, and is now an assistant at Illinois.
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