Alejandro Carmona

Biography

Carmona is often confused with another Alejandro Carmona, known as Ali Baba; the two are separate characters. He attended Troy High School in Troy, Ohio from 1999 to 2001, playing basketball for two seasons before being ruled ineligible by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. During his time at Troy, he verbally committed to play college basketball at the University of Memphis and later at the University of Dayton. Carmona has played in the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico since 2001, winning Rookie of the Year in 2002. In 2005, he was invited to the Detroit Pistons Pre-Season Training Camp and was later allocated to the Fort Worth Flyers of the NBDL. In 2006, Carmona played with Fuerza Regia from Mexico in the LNBP league, setting the record for most points in a game with 49 against Durango on October 13. He was a member of the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team in 2006, earning a gold medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games, and won a silver medal at the 2007 Pan-American Games. In 2017, Carmona joined the Piratas de Quebradillas and won his first BSN Championship. On January 20, 2022, he signed with the Gigantes de Carolina, and on July 26, 2023, he won his second BSN championship, the first championship in franchise history.