Mohamed Diawara
| No. 51 – New York Knicks | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Power forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
| League | NBA | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 April 2005 Paris, France | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 2025: 2nd round, 51st overall pick | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Drafted by | Los Angeles Clippers | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2021–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2024 | Paris Basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | →Poitiers Basket 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024–2025 | Cholet Basket | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025–present | New York Knicks | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Career highlights | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Stats at NBA.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Stats at Basketball Reference | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Mohamed Diawara (born 29 April 2005)[1] is a French professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for Cholet Basket of the LNB Élite. Standing at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he plays in the power forward position.
Professional career
[edit]Diawara began his basketball career with the Parisian club La Domremy Basket 13 and later played for the youth team of Saint Charles Basket in Charenton-le-Pont.[2] In the 2020–21 season, he was trained at the French academy INSEP[1] and moved to Paris Basketball in the summer of 2021,[1][3] for which he made his first appearances in the French first division in the following 2021–22 season.[1] In the summer of 2022, he was named the best player at the Basketball Without Borders talent scouting event organized by the world governing body FIBA and the NBA in Milan.[4]
In December 2023, Diawara was loaned to second-division club Poitiers Basket 86,[5] after receiving little playing time in Paris during the previous 2023–24 season. He was signed by first-division club Cholet Basket during the 2024 summer break.[6]
National team career
[edit]Diawara played for the France under-17 basketball team at the 2022 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup, in which his team won the bronze medal.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Mohamed Diawara". Paris Basketball. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Découvrez Mohamed Diawara". Saint Charles Basket. 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Elite : Le Paris Basketball affiche ses ambitions". basket-ballworld.fr. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Mohamed Diawara et Leila Lacan : deux Français MVP du Basketball Without Borders Europe". BeBasket. 5 June 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Diawara prêté à Poitiers jusqu'à la fin de saison". Paris Basketball (in French). 20 December 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Avec Cholet, Mohamed Diawara va vouloir montrer qu'il a les épaules pour la NBA". Bebasket.fr (in French). 13 September 2024. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Les Bleuets décrochent le bronze à la Coupe du monde U17 contre la Lituanie". L'Équipe (in French). 10 July 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
External links
[edit]- Career statistics from NBA.com · Basketball Reference
- Mohamed Diawara at FIBA