Manix Auriantal

Manix Auriantal (born August 8, 1980) is a Canadian retired professional basketball player and is now actively dedicated to the next generation of Canadian athletes. He is of Haitian descent. He currently runs a basketball programme for Louis-Joseph Papineau high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Auriantal has played for several teams from his hometown since graduating from the New York Institute of Technology in 2004. He has represented Canada in international competition, and played for them at the AfroBasket 2007.

Collegiate career Auriantal first attended Dawson College in Westmount, Quebec. He then transferred to the Globe Institute of Technology in New York City, United States. After one year, he began attending NYIT in the same city, where he played his final two seasons of basketball.

Professional basketball career

Auriantal played with the Montreal Matrix of the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 2005 to 2006. On February 4, 2006, he was named ABA Player of the Week. Later that month, he was named to the 2006 All-Star Game along with former NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway. The guard moved to the Montreal Jazz of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL) for the 2012-13 season. He posted a season-high 36 points in a loss to the London Lightning on December 7, 2012 and, by the end of the season, led the league in steals, averaging 2.15 per game.

+ Some honours: Pagé Dynamo Team twice LBQ champion 2013–2014 Kebs, Canada All-Star Team of ABA 2008 Fiba EuroChallenge Average of 20 points/match 2008 Afrobasket, Angola Second best pointer of the tournament - 18.5 points/match 2007 Afrobasket, Angola Second best rebounder of the tournament - 9.5 rebounds permatch 2007 Matrix, Canada 1st Canadian participating in the ABA All-Star team 2006 Matrix, Canada 1st team All-Star " of the ABA 2006 NYIT, New York MVP of the All-Star game 2004 NYIT, New York Second team All-Star, NYCAC 2004 NYIT, New York 1st team All-Metro States 2004 NYIT, New York 1st team playoff All-Star 2004 Collège Dawson Twice provincial champion 1999–2000 Équipe du Québec New Jersey Showdown All Tournament Team 1997 Équipe du Québec Third position in the Canadian Championship 1997 Lucien Pagé MVP 1997–1998 Team Reebok 12 best players in the United States 1996 Espoir Montréal Winning team of the " Jeux du Québec " 1995

Personal Auriantal studied business at the New York Institute of Technology for his final two years of college. However, he returned to Montreal after graduating. Manix is from a family of seven children. He has three brothers that have also played professional basketball at a relatively high level. Ralph, Hennssy, and Rodwins, all played college basketball on a scholarship in the United States and earned a degree.