Bobby Joe Hatton

{{short description|Puerto Rican basketball player}}

{{use mdy dates|date=April 2019}}

{{family name hatnote|Hatton|Negrón|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Bobby Joe Hatton

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| height = {{height|ft=6|in=2}}

| weight = {{convert|175|lb|kg st|abbr=on}}

| position = Point guard

| nationality = Puerto Rican

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|10|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ponce, Puerto Rico

| high school = Colegio Ponceño

| college = Marist (1995–1999)

| draft_year = 1999

| career_start = 1994

| career_end = 2012

| years1 = 1994–2000

| team1 = Atléticos de San Germán

| years2 = 2000–2001

| team2 = Correcaminos UAT Victoria

| years3 = 2001–2004

| team3 = Leones de Ponce

| years4 = 2004–2005

| team4 = CAB Madeira

| years5 = 2005

| team5 = Leones de Ponce

| years6 = 2005

| team6 = Strasbourg

| years7 = 2005–2006

| team7 = Spartak Saint Petersburg

| years8 = 2006–2007

| team8 = Leones de Ponce

| years9 = 2008

| team9 = Capitanes de Arecibo

| years10 = 2008–2009

| team10 = Halcones Rojos Veracruz

| years11 = 2009–2012

| team11 = Leones de Ponce

| highlights =

• BSN Most Valuable Player (2005)
• 5× BSN Champion (1994, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2008)
• 2× LNBP All-Star (2000, 2001)
• Second-team All-MAAC (1999)

| medal_templates = {{MedalSport | Men's basketball}}

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{{MedalCompetition|FIBA AmeriCup}}

{{MedalBronze| 2003 Puerto Rico | }}

{{MedalCompetition|Centrobasket}}

{{MedalGold| 2003 Mexico | }}

{{MedalSilver| 2004 Dominican Republic | }}

{{MedalBronze| 2006 Panama | }}

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Roberto José Hatton Negrón (born 11 October 1976[http://www.freewebs.com/bobbyjoehatton/biografia.htm Roberto J. Hatton Negron: Biography.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210044851/http://www.freewebs.com/bobbyjoehatton/biografia.htm |date=10 February 2009 }}) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Hatton has most notably played for Marist College in the NCAA and for the Arecibo Captains, San Germán Athletics, and Ponce Lions in Puerto Rico's Baloncesto Superior Nacional. Hatton has also played professionally in Portugal, Russia, Mexico and France. Hatton has been a member of the Puerto Rico national basketball team since 1993, taking part in both the 2004 Olympic Games, famous for their defeat of the United States team, as well as the 2006 FIBA World Championship. At the youth level he won a silver medal at the 1997 FIBA Under-22 World Championship.[https://www.bsnpr.com/jugadores/jugador.asp?id=2074 BSN profile]

His #10 jersey was retired by his former team Leones de Ponce in 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.elvocero.com/deportes/baloncesto/ponce-retirar-n-mero-de-bobby-joe-hatton/article_a429211b-dc1f-54b2-a704-8803ab270504.html|title=Ponce retirará número de "Bobby Joe" Hatton|work=El Vocero|date=24 May 2017|access-date=16 January 2021|language=es}}