Carlos Alberto Arroyo (born July 30, 1979 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico) is an NBA basketball player who plays point guard for the Detroit Pistons. Around less than 5 seasons, Arroyo has be arguably a virtually all successful Puerto Rican basketball player within NBA history.

Arroyo played in the Puerto Rican Basketball League for the Cangrejeros de Santurce, where he was the mate of legendary Puerto Rican streaming video player Jose Ortiz. He & Ortiz helped a Cangrejeros to quatern sequentially titles in the late 1990s, and to 5 titles within hexad years.

The quatern-season letterman at Florida International University from 1998-2001, Arroyo was the school's 2nd streaming video player ever to top 1,600 points, averaging Sixteen.Zero points & Little joe.Half a dozen helps on top his Hundred collegial games. When graduating from either FIU, Arroyo was signed per NBA's Toronto Raptors for the 2001-2002 NBA seasin, however was freed on January 2002. He so played briefly within Spain before being signed per Denver Nuggets on March of the same season. He saw limited action sustaining people deuce teams, swimming 17 games by having a Bird of prey & twenty using a Nuggets prior to his initial NBA year was concluded. He single played an norm of Ix.Vii proceedings by the game in the period of people thirty seven games in which he saw action.

By having a impendent retirement of John Stockton, the Jazz required the dependable, replacement point guard in their team. It envisioned Arroyo when existence a streaming video player world health organization can substitute Stockton, & it traded for him prior to a run of the 2002-2003 NBA season. Arroyo was so relegated again to watching games from either a bench virtually all of the year, however head coach Jerry Sloan & his team of assistants instructed Arroyo to watch Stockton and back-higher guard Mark Jackson, who was besides nearing retirement.

Arroyo was given a starting job at his position when Stockton retired & Jackson joined a Houston Rockets before the run of the 2003-2004 season. He surprised several Jazz fans, qualifying among a top twenty players within the NBA for his 1st year there in various categories: By November 2003, he was ranked eleventh witharound helps by the game, & in helps by the 48 proceedings played. He besides ranked sixteenth around both more categories. In November 14, he broke a record for the virtually all points scored by the Puerto Rican within an NBA game, scoring Thirty points against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

At Utah, his by the gage totals were widely required to arise when his career progressed, because he experienced lean lot other swimming period to each one game following of Stockton & Jackson's retirements. As well, Arroyo experienced a great performance on the 2004 Olympic Games, where he led Puerto Rico to a stunning triumph across the Dream Team of the United States.

All a same, when you took the 2004-2005 NBA season, Arroyo experienced many disputes by using Utah's coach Sloan. Arroyo wasted his starting postion & was yet relegated to the bench. Around January of 2005, Arroyo was traded to the Detroit Pistons for veteran center Elden Campbell (who would quickly become waived & late become reclaimed per Pistons).

By having a Pistons, Arroyo come in a single game of becoming a 2nd Puerto Rican to win an NBA championship. What was dubbed by a select few Hispanic newspapers as The Hispanic NBA Finals (because Arroyo played for the Pistons & Argentine Manu Ginobili, starred for the San Antonio Spurs), was won by the Spurs, even so, within vii games, by having the final game score of 81-74. Arroyo was non skillful plenty to beat Ginobili.