Evelio Droz

Evelio Droz Ramos (; May 10, 1937 – July 26, 2025) was a Puerto Rican basketball player. He played 14 seasons in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) for the Vaqueros de Bayamón, helping the team win two championships. As a member of the Puerto Rico men's national basketball team, he competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics, also winning medals at the 1959 and 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, as well as the 1959 and 1963 Pan American Games.

Biography Droz was born on May 10, 1937, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He grew up in the town of Barranquitas. He was nicknamed "El Potro" (The Colt) and played in Puerto Rico for the Vaqueros de Bayamón in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN), the first-tier league in the country. Droz spent his entire 14-season professional basketball playing career, which spanned from 1957 to 1970, with the Vaqueros. In his professional career, Droz appeared in 260 games and scored 3,987 points, averaging 14.8 points per game. He was part of a team that won the bronze medal at the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games in Caracas, Venezuela, then won silver at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago. The following year, he was selected to represent Puerto Rico in basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, the first time Puerto Rico competed in basketball at the Olympics. At the Olympics, the team finished 13th. In 1963, Droz competed at the FIBA World Championship and won the bronze medal at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo. He returned to the Olympics in 1964 in Tokyo, helping his team finish fourth. Two years later, he contributed to the gold-medal winning team at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, held in San Juan.

After his playing career, Droz served on the board of directors for the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation. He was inducted into the Puerto Rican Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. He died on July 26, 2025, at the age of 88.