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Yaseen Musa (Yaasiin Muuse)
Yaseen Ismail Musa (born 12 August 1980) is a Qatari former basketball player of Somali descent. He led scoring at the 1999 FIBA World Championship for Junior Men with 25 points a game, played for Qatar at Asian Championships and Asian Games, and won the FIBA 3x3 World Championships with Qatar in 2014.
Who is he?
Yaseen Ismail Musa is a former professional basketball player born on 12 August 1980 who played for the Qatar national team (Wikipedia, Yaseen Musa). Wikipedia lists him among Qatari people of Somali descent (same source). See Somalis in Qatar.
Career
At the 1999 FIBA World Championship for Junior Men he averaged 25 points a game, the best in the tournament, ahead of future NBA players Andrei Kirilenko and Juan Carlos Navarro (Wikipedia). He played for Qatar at the 2007 and 2009 FIBA Asia Championships and at four Asian Games, winning silver (same source). He played his club basketball for Al Rayyan (same source). In 2014 he was part of the Qatar team that won the FIBA 3x3 World Championships (same source).
In short
A Qatari basketball player of Somali descent who topped the scoring at a junior world championship and won a 3x3 world title.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Yaseen Musa · en.wikipedia.org
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