Tegba Othello Hunter (born May 28, 1986) is an American basketball player, currently signed to the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

A 6'8", 225-pound power forward, Hunter played high school basketball at Richard J. Reynolds High School in his hometown of Winston-Salem. After high school he attended Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, FL for two years and became a part of the Ohio State University's 2006 "Thad Five" recruiting class. After playing two seasons at Ohio State University, during which he managed to post the seventh-best single-season field-goal percentage in school history, he entered the 2008 NBA Draft, in which he was not selected.

Hunter joined the Atlanta Hawks' summer league squad in the summer of 2008. In five summer league games, he posted 13.2 points per game, 2.0 assists per game and 1.2 steals per game, and led his team with 6.2 rebounds per game.

On August 11, the Hawks announced that they had signed Hunter to a contract. Per team policy, the terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Source: Wikipedia