Abdul Shamsid-Deen
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Abdul Rahman Shamsid-Deen | |
| birthday | August 1, 1968 (52 years and 30 days) | |
| place of birth | Staten Island , New York , USA | |
| size | 208 cm | |
| position | center | |
| college | Providence | |
| NBA draft | 1990 , 54th Pick, Seattle SuperSonics | |
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1986–1990 Providence Friars ( NCAA ) 1990–1992 Racing Club de France 1992 Santeros de Aguada ( BSN ) 1992–1993 Valvi Girona 1993–1995 TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen → 1994 Vaqueros de Bayamon (BSN) 1995 Strasbourg IG 1995–1996 Ülkerspor 1996 Santeros de Aguada (BSN) 1996–1997 Club Ourense Baloncesto 1997 Cocodrilos de Caracas 1997 Leones de Ponce 1997 Hapoel Galil Elyon 1997–1998 Meysuspor 1998 Maccabi Rishon LeZion 1998–1999 AEL Limassol 1999 Zagłębie Sosnowiec 1999 Brookarmlyn Kings ( USBL ) 1999–2000 rat Ulm 2000 CA Obras Sanitarias 2001 Brandt Hagen 2001 Maratonistas de Coamo (BSN) 2001 Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions 2002 BK Kiew 2002 Toros de Aragua 2002 Maratonistas de Coamo (BSN) 2002 San Carlos Distrito Nacional 2003 KB Sigal Priština 2004 Rueil-Malmaison 2004 TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach 2005 Uhud Medina
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Abdul Rahman Shamsid-Deen (born August 1, 1968 on Staten Island , New York ) is a former American basketball player who was active in Germany , where he was German champion and cup winner with Bayer Leverkusen . After retiring in 2005, Shamsid-Deen returned to his home country, where he also worked as an assistant coach for a high school team in Atlanta .
Career
College (until 1990)
Shamsid-Deen moved in 1986 after graduating from Tottenville High School to study at Providence College in Rhode Island . Rick Pitino had been coach of the Friars basketball team in the Big East Conference a year earlier . In Shamsid-Deen's freshman season, Pitino surprisingly led the Friars into the Final Four tournament of the NCAA national finals . At the regional finals, the two top seeded teams, including Big East Conference champion Georgetown Hoyas, were beaten one after the other and only lost in the final against the Orangemen of Syracuse University . Pitino then returned as head coach to the New York Knicks NBA club , which he had left as assistant coach for the post at Providence College. Pitino's successor was not very successful and after a season with a negative record, only Rick Barnes was able to qualify the Friars again for the NCAA finals. In the two final seasons of Shamsid-Deen for the Friars, however, it was only enough to two narrow first-round defeats.
After Shamsid-Deen had a good senior year as a senior with 8 points and 7 rebounds , he was selected in the NBA Draft 1990 by the Seattle SuperSonics from the highest endowed professional league NBA . At this club, however, he could not earn a place in the season squad in the training camps.
Professional in Europe and successes in Germany (1990 to 1995)
Shamsid-Deen started his professional career in France at the Racing Club from Paris . After a moderate course of the season they pushed in the play-offs for the championship after a victory over the main round second Cholet Basket to the semifinals, where they lost to the defending champion CSP Limoges . In the following season they finally missed qualifying for the championship play-offs after an eleventh place in the main round. In the Korać Cup 1992 they were eliminated in the quarterfinals against the eventual title winner Virtus Rome . After Shamsid-Deen had played during the European summer break for the Santeros from Aguada in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) in Puerto Rico , he joined the Spanish first division club CB Sant Josep from Girona for the 1992/93 season . There he replaced his compatriot Darryl Middleton , also from New York, who had been Most Valuable Player of the ACB League in the previous season . After a good start to the season, in which Shamsid-Deen was voted player of the week on the first match day, Girona only barely reached the play-offs in 16th place, where they were eliminated in the first round against the main round first and later champions Real Madrid .
In 1993 Shamsid-Deen and his compatriot Tom Garrick replaced the US duo Clinton Wheeler and Kannard Johnson at the German double winner TSV Bayer 04 from Leverkusen , who won seven of the eight possible national titles under coach Dirk Bauermann with a collection of German national players had won four seasons earlier. Shamsid-Deen managed to defend their title with the Farbenstädtern in the basketball Bundesliga in 1993/94 without being defeated in the play-offs. In the "FIBA Europaliga", known as the European Cup of National Champions , however, as before, the 16 best teams were eliminated after only four wins in 14 games in the group stage. After playing for the Vaqueros from Bayamón in Puerto Rico during the summer break of 1994 , Shamsid-Deen returned to Leverkusen. While the cup title was brought back to Leverkusen at the beginning of January 1995 through a narrow success via ratiopharm Ulm , Shamsid-Deen's contract was terminated after the turn of the year in January 1995.
"Wandervogel" (1995 to 2000)
For the 1995/96 season, Shamsid-Deen again signed a contract in France with Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket in Strasbourg , which, however, was dissolved shortly after the start of the season. In the course of the season he was then in the squad of master Ülkerspor from Istanbul in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (TBL), which, however, was in the final series of the championship without a chance against local rival Efes Pilsen and became runner-up. From Puerto Rico Shamsid-Deen then returned to the ACB League , where he reached the last non-relegation place with the Galician Club Ourense in the 1996/97 season. After a detour in Venezuela with the Cocodrilos from Caracas , he played in Puerto Rico in the 1997 BSN, this time for the Leones from Ponce .
In the 1997/98 season, Shamsid-Deen initially played for Hapoel Galil from the Israeli Ligat ha'Al before he played again in the TBL after the start of the season for Meysuspor, where his former Leverkusen teammate Tom Garrick was also active in the meantime . Meysuspor occupied the penultimate place in the table at the end of the season and rose from the top division again. The 1998/99 season he started again for Maccabi from Rishon LeZion in the Ligat ha'Al. As before with Galil Elyon, he left this team after a few games and was employed over the turn of the year at AEL Limassol in Cyprus for a good four weeks before he completed the European season in the Polish League (PLK) at Zagłębie from Sosnowiec . He was then active this time in the summer league United States Basketball League for the Brooklyn Kings in his New York homeland.
In autumn 1999 Shamsid-Deen moved back to Germany, where he was under contract for ratiopharm from Ulm for the entire season in the 1999/2000 basketball Bundesliga . Here he put on a double-double on average for the "Spatzen" with just under 18 points and 11 rebounds per game , but could not prevent the team from missing the play-off entry due to the poorer direct comparison and in the relegation round with the best second division could not secure relegation, but only remained in the top division because of the waiver of TuS Lichterfelde . This was Shamsid-Deen's last full season for a club.
"Stand-by professional" (2000 to 2005)
At the beginning of the 2000/01 season Shamsid-Deen was initially represented in the squads of Roseto Basket in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and Polonia Warsaw in the PLK, without being used in championship games. In November 2000 he was briefly active in Argentina for CA Obras Sanitarias in Buenos Aires before he was signed by the German first division club Brandt Hagen to replace the injured Daren Engellant. The Hagener reached under the former Leverkusen master coach Bauermann at the end of the basketball Bundesliga 2000/01 but only the twelfth and last non-relegation place. The season ended Shamsid-Deen with the Maratonistas from Coamo again in the BSN of Puerto Rico.
At the beginning of the 2001/02 season Shamsid-Deen was under contract with the Arkadia Lions from Traiskirchen in the Austrian A-League . During the season he was still in the squad of BK Kiev in the Ukraine . He moved again to Venezuela in spring 2002, where he was active this time for the Toros from Aragua . After a stint again with the Maratonistas from Coamo in the BSN Puerto Ricos, in August 2002 he also got involved with the club from San Carlos in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic . At the age of 35, Shamsid-Deen was signed up again in 2003 by Sigal Prishtina from Kosovo , who at that time was being trained by the Croatian coach Tomislav Bevanda, who is known in Germany . At the beginning of 2004 he moved to the French second division club from Rueil-Malmaison , where he was under contract for a month. At the beginning of the 2nd Bundesliga 2004/05 Shamsid-Deen then played for the southern second division TSV Tröster from Breitengüßbach , before he had one last active engagement for the Uhud club from the Saudi Arabian Medina in early 2005 .
After the end of his career, Shamsid-Deen finally returned to his American homeland. Here he did not let go of basketball completely, but also worked as an assistant coach at the Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta , Georgia .
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Abdul Shamsid-Deen - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
- A Shamsid-Deen - Profile on the website of the League ACB (Spanish)
- Abdul Shamshid Deen (Baloncesto Superior Nacional de Puerto Rico) - Statistics on the BSN website (Spanish)
- Abdul Rahman Shamsid-Deen (Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions) - Player History - Player profile in the Saporta Cup 2001/02 at FIBA Europa (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011-12 Men's Basketball Online Team Guide - Through The Years. Providence College , 2011, p. 198 , accessed on February 23, 2013 (English, season summaries in the 2011/12 season booklet).
- ↑ 2011-12 Men's Basketball Online Team Guide - All-Time Records (Part 2). Providence College , 2011, p. 165 , accessed on February 23, 2013 (English, Individual Seasonal Statistics).
- ^ European Championship for Men's Club 1994 - Semi-Final Round. FIBA Europe , accessed on February 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Ulkerspor - Turkish Basketball League Team: 1995-1996 Season Squad. TBLStat.net, accessed on February 23, 2013 (English, seasonal calendar 1995/96).
- ↑ Hapoel Galil Elyon - TAK Papagos / Korac Cup 1998. FIBA Europe , accessed on February 23, 2013 (English, game statistics).
- ↑ Abdul Rahman Shamsiddeen - Turkish Basketball League Player: 1997-1998 Regular Season. TBLStat.net, accessed on February 23, 2013 (English, 1997/98 season statistics).
- ↑ Athletics. Team info. Basketball - Boys Varsity. ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shamsid-Deen, Abdul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shamsid-Deen, Abdul Rahman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Staten Island , New York City, USA |