Eddie Casiano

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Eddie Casiano (born in September 20, 1972) is a Puerto Rican basketball player who was born in Manhattan, New York. He plays in Puerto Rico on the BSN for the Ponce Lions and is a member of the 2004 Puerto Rican National Basketball Team.

Casiano started his career as a BSN player with the San German Athletics in 1988, alongside Jose Ortiz and Nelson Quiñones. Because of the age of Casiano and Quiñones at the time, fifteen, the team was nicknamed by the media as Los Nenes de San German (San German's Boys), apart from the team's already existent Monstruo Anaranjado nickname (Orange Monsters).

Casiano was heavily recruited to play division I NCAA basketball (Villanova, UNLV, Duke) but had previously signed in a professional league that only lasted for a couple of years and due to NCAA regulations he could not participate. He was in the roster of the Orlando Magic of the NBA at one point in 1999 but never played.

In 1992, Casiano participated in his first Olympic Games, joining Ortiz at the Puerto Rican National Basketball Team for the first time (He would return in 1996, 2000 and 2004, with Ortiz, to the Olympics.) In 2001 he was traded to the Ponce Lions along with Bobby Joe Hatton leading the team to the title two years later.