Carlos Arroyo

Carlos Alberto Arroyo Bermúdez (born July 30, 1979) is a Puerto Rican former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association with the Toronto Raptors, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics.

In the 2008–09 season, he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, winning the league's championship, and being named the Final's Most Valuable Player. In 2009 he also was the Israeli Premier League Assists Leader. He has also played professionally in Puerto Rico, Spain, and Turkey.

Arroyo was a member of the senior Puerto Rican national basketball team that defeated the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. He also represented Puerto Rico at the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. In May 2019, Arroyo was picked by Trilogy to play in the Big3, a 3-on-3 basketball league founded by rapper Ice Cube. He played in that league for one season, and then turned his focus to music, releasing the international hit song, "Baila Reggaeton".

Carlos Arroyo was born and raised in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. He is an identical twin, born along his brother Alberto. Arroyo is a cousin of actor Benicio del Toro.

Arroyo graduated from Colegio Santiago Apostol in Fajardo. Arroyo attended Brookwood School in Thomasville, Georgia, for his junior year in high school, where he averaged nearly 30 points and 10 assists per game.

Arroyo studied in Florida International University (FIU) from 1998 to 2001, where he played for the campus' team, the Golden Panthers. He was a four-year letterman at the university having completed his B.A while playing with the team for four years and establishing several team records. Among these records are the all-time lead in assists, as well as the single-season assist record, having 459 in one season.

Arroyo is also the only player in Florida International University to have scored more than six hundred points in a single season. He is also the second all-time leading scorer for FIU, having scored 1,600 points during his university career, with an average of 16.0 points per game and 4.6 assists per game over his 100 games. On December 30, 2000 at North Texas, Arroyo set FIU's single-game scoring record, dropping 39 points in an overtime loss to the Mean Green. His 15 field goals made and 29 attempts were also both single-game records for the Panthers.

Arroyo was also selected as a member of the Sun Belt Conference's All-Conference team on two separate occasions. On January 5, 2007, Florida International University held a ceremony where Arroyo's university number (30) was retired to recognize his play over his time there.