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Jose Alvarado Shared Moment With Daughters After Clinching Olympic Berth
Puerto Rico is one of the four new countries that qualified for the 2024 Olympics in France via FIBA's qualifying tournament. Along with them: Brazil, Greece and Spain.
One of the key pieces for Puerto Rico's return to the Olympics was Jose Alvarado, who plays for the New Orleans Pelicans. Alvarez logged 23 points in the berth-clinching game on Sunday.
Afterward, Alvarado walked his children across the court, taking in the moment with them, and jumped on the scorer's table to hype up the home crowd.
A moment Jose Alvarado will never forget. Celebrating an Olympic berth with his daughters then jumping on the scorers table. Iconic pic.twitter.com/F88uXolSKR
— Pelicans Film Room (@PelsFilmRoom) July 7, 2024
He shared another awesome moment receiving the MVP award for the San Juan Olympic Qualifying Tournament, inviting his teammates to celebrate with him:
Jose Alvarado chosen as the San Juan OQT MVP. He invited all his teammates to dance with him while the fans sing "Jose Jose Jose" pic.twitter.com/7OxywiPatm
— Pelicans Film Room (@PelsFilmRoom) July 8, 2024
Alvarado and the Puerto Rico team will slot into Group C with America, South Sudan, and Serbia in the Olympics. It will be the country's first time in the games since 2004 in Athens.
Once back to NBA play in the fall, Alvarado is under contract for 2024-25 and then set to be a free agent after the season. He came into the league undrafted out of Georgia Tech and has made a name for himself with the Pelicans as a crafty, scrappy guard off the bench. He finished sixth in Sixth Man of the Year voting last year.
Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.