{{short description|Cape Verdean-American basketball player}} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalSport|Men's basketball}} {{MedalCountry|{{CPV}}}} {{MedalCompetition|African Championships}} {{MedalBronze| 2007 Angola | Cape Verde}} {{MedalBottom}}
'''Tony Barros''' (born 3 May 1984) is a Cape Verdean American basketball player with the Cape Verde national basketball team and formerly at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A cousin of former NBA player Dana Barros,<ref name="Watching a Mass Star Rise">[http://media.www.umassmedia.com/media/storage/paper445/news/2007/10/15/Sports/Watching.A.Mass.Star.Rise-3033075.shtml Watching a Mass Star Rise] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023005213/http://media.www.umassmedia.com/media/storage/paper445/news/2007/10/15/Sports/Watching.A.Mass.Star.Rise-3033075.shtml |date=2007-10-23 }} The Mass Media, October 15, 2007</ref> Tony Barros helped Cape Verde finishing third in the FIBA Africa Championship 2007. At the tournament, Barros averaged 9.8 points per game and hit the game winning shot against Egypt to clinch the bronze medal.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110711000625/http://www.athens2008.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/08/olymQual/men/teamPlay/play/p/competitioncode//eventid/4508/langlc/en/playernumber/62830/roundid/4508/season//teamnumber/2603/fe_teamPlay_playProf.html FIBA.com profile]</ref> Barros is a graduate of Saint Sebastian's School in Needham, Massachusetts.<ref name="Watching a Mass Star Rise"/>
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==External links== *[https://archive.today/20130123142820/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/08/olymQual/men/teamPlay/play/p/competitioncode//eventid/4508/langid/1/langlc/en/playernumber/62830/roundid/4508/season//teamnumber/2603/fe_teamPlay_playProf.html FIBA profile]
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