Ronny Turiaf is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Player who was born on January 13, 1983 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. French center with high energy who played four years of college basketball for Gonzaga. He began his NBA career in 2006 with the Los Angeles Lakers. After that, he went on to play for several teams before joining the Minnesota Timberwolves.
In 2012, he won his first NBA Championship as a Miami Heat player behind the dominant pair of LeBron and Dwyane.
Born in Fort-de-France, Turiaf spent most of his childhood in Martinique, a French overseas department in the Caribbean Sea. Following the advice from his father, Turiaf moved to Paris in 1998, at the age of 15, to attend the National Institute of Physical Education (INSEP), a school that combines rigorous secondary education with elite-level athletic training.
In 1999, he made the French Under-18 national team, and he helped lead the team to the gold medal at the 2000 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship with future NBA stars Tony Parker, Boris Diaw, and Mickaël Piétrus.
He was raised with four sisters, Elodie, Florence and Nadia.
