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Shareef Abdur-Rahim – retired player, named NBA All-Star in 2001–02 season [176] Hassan Adams – drafted by and played for the New Jersey Nets, later the Cleveland Cavaliers, then KK Vojvodina (in Serbia). Larry Johnson – retired player, played for the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks [177] Nazr Mohammed – player for the Charlotte ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.) – American professional basketball player and the NBA's former all-time leading scorer. [9] [10] Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf – (born Chris Wayne Jackson) – American former professional basketball player. [11] Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland) – American jazz trumpeter. [12]
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir (Somali: Bilqis Abdul Qaadir; Arabic: بلقيس عبد القادر) (born 11 November 1990) is an American former collegiate basketball player. She was notable for playing basketball while wearing a hijab, a headscarf for Muslim women.
He became the first ever Palestinian or Muslim head coach of a National Basketball Association (NBA) or NBA G League franchise when he served as head coach of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers from 2019 to 2022. [1] [2]
Avdija was born in kibbutz Beit Zera in Israel. His mother, Sharon Artzi, is an Israeli Jew and former track and field and basketball player. [2] His father, Zufer Avdija, is an Israeli citizen of Serbian Gorani–Muslim heritage [2] [3] [4] who played basketball for the Yugoslavia national team prior to moving to Israel to play for Israeli teams.
This article comprises lists of National Basketball Association (NBA) players. These lists include players from the American National Basketball League (NBL), the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and the original American Basketball Association (ABA). All of these leagues contributed to the formation of the present-day NBA.
Enes Kanter Freedom (Turkish pronunciation: [eˈnes kanˈtæɾ fɾiˈdom]; born Enes Kanter; May 20, 1992 [4]) is a Turkish-American professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also had a brief professional wrestling career and is a former WWE 24/7 Champion. Born in ...
The increase in foreign players in the NBA has helped players born in the United States because, with more players from multiple countries, the outreach of the NBA is global and has been key to the NBA's success. [23] This has allowed for the average NBA player's salary to increase from $246,000 in 1982 [13] and 1983 to $7.7 million in 2019 ...