Khalid El-Amin

Khalid El-Amin
Player information
birthday	25th April 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Minneapolis , Minnesota , United States
size	178 cm
position	Point guard
college	Connecticut
NBA draft	2000 , 34th Pick Chicago Bulls
Club information
society	BG Göttingen
league	Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number	42
Clubs as active
1997–2000 UConn Huskies ( NCAA ) 2000–2001 Chicago Bulls 2001–2002 Dakota Wizards ( CBA ) 2002 Gary Steelheads (CBA) 2002 Strasbourg IG 2002–2003 Ironi Ramat Gan 2003–2005 Beşiktaş JK Istanbul 2005–2007 BK Asowmasch Mariupol 2007– 2008 Türk Telekomspor 2008–2009 BK Asowmasch Mariupol 2009 Türk Telekomspor 2009–2010 BK Budiwelnyk Kyiv 2010–2011 Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 2011–2012 KK Cibona Zagreb 2012–2013 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 2013 Trabzonspor 2014–2015 BG Göttingen 2015 Sigal Prishtina 2015–2016 BG Göttingen 2017 Marinos de Anzoategui 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000

Khalid El-Amin (born April 25, 1979 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is a retired American basketball player . El-Amin and his team won the prestigious NCAA Division I basketball championship in 1999 during his studies . After a short career in the highest-endowed professional league NBA , El-Amin played as a professional in Europe, mainly in Turkey and Ukraine , where he twice became national champion, as well as in France . In 2014 and 2015 he played for the BG Göttingen in the basketball league .

Career

El-Amin won the Minnesota State Championship three times while at school with Minneapolis North High School . After El-Amin had already been named Gatorade Player of the Year by Minnesota in 1996 and was honored as Minnesota Mr. Basketball a year later , he got a place at the University of Connecticut in 1997 , where he worked for the renowned university team Huskies under coach Jim Calhoun played in the then Big East Conference of the NCAA . For the Goodwill Games 1998 El-Amin was appointed to the US selection, which was able to win the title as host in New York City after an opening defeat against defending champion Puerto Rico . With the Huskies, El-Amin won the Big East championship tournament twice in a row in 1998 and 1999 and, after failing shortly before reaching the Final Four in 1998, the national NCAA finals tournament in 1999, somewhat surprisingly . In the 77-74 success in the final over the heavily favored Blue Devils of Duke University , El-Amin, who is relatively small and noticeably stocky for a basketball player, scored the last four points for his team to win the championship, which was also the first NCAA title for coach Calhoun who was later inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame . El-Amin played another year in the NCAA, in which the Huskies, without Most Outstanding Players Rip Hamilton and Ricky Moore, neither defended the Big East title nor made it far in the finals when they beat the Volunteers in the second round retired from the University of Tennessee .

El-Amin signed up after three college seasons for the Entry Draft and was selected in the NBA Draft 2000 in the second round by the Chicago Bulls. After 50 appearances for the Bulls El-Amin also took part in the NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge 2001, but in March 2001 he had to make room for other players in the squad. After he was under contract with the Dallas Mavericks in the pre-season phase of the following season, he switched to the Dakota Wizards at the beginning of the season, who were then playing in the newly formed Minor League Continental Basketball Association (CBA). In January 2002 he moved within the league to the Steelheads in Gary (Indiana) before finally moving to Europe a short time later and playing the season in the French LNB Pro A for SIG Basket from Strasbourg . However, Strasbourg missed the play-offs for the French championship in ninth place of the regular season . In the 2002/03 season El-Amin played in the Israeli Ligat ha'Al for the former runner-up Ironi from Ramat Gan , who finished third from last that season. El-Amin then moved to Turkey, where he played for Beşiktaş JK from Istanbul in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (TBL). In 2004, after finishing third in the regular season, the team reached the play-off semi-final series, which was lost to runner-up and local rivals Ülkerspor . A year later they were able to win the semi-final series against this team, against which they had lost the quarter-finals of the FIBA Europe League 2004/05 , as again third . In the final series of the championship, however, they clearly lost with only one win in five games against defending champion Efes Pilsen Istanbul . At the All-Star Game of the TBL 2005 El-Amin was named Most Valuable Player (MVP).

After two years, El-Amin left Turkey in 2005 and moved to the Ukraine for BK Azovmasch from Mariupol on the Black Sea . In the new edition of the final series of the Basketball Superliga Ukraine , the championship title lost in the previous year was brought back from the BK Kiev and won the national double after the cup success . The championship title could also be defended in 2007. Internationally, despite two home wins against the eventual finalists BK Chimki and Joventut de Badalona in the second group phase , the FIBA EuroCup 2005/06 narrowly failed, but a year later the team made it to the final of this competition. Against the Spanish representative and host Akasvayu Girona , who was trained by Svetislav Pešić , they lost the final in the FIBA EuroCup 2006/07 with 72:79. El-Amin then went back to Turkey and won the 2008 national cup competition with Türk Telekomspor from Ankara , in which he was awarded the MVP of the final. After the team was eliminated comparatively early in the ULEB Cup 2007/08 , they reached the final series for the Turkish championship for the first time after 1997 and for the second time, which however was lost to Fenerbahçe Ülker . For the 2008/09 season, El-Amin first returned to Azovmash Mariupol and won the Ukrainian cup competition again. At the end of March 2009, Türk Telekomspor brought him back again, but the second in the main round lost the semi-final series against defending champion Fenerbahçe Ülker without a win of their own. In the 2009/10 season El-Amin played again in the Ukrainian Super League, but this time for BK Budiwelnyk from the capital Kiev . The club, which was tied with Azovmash at the time, was the record champions with six titles, and for the first time since 1998 they reached the final series of the national championship, which was lost to the defending champions and El-Amin's former team Azovmash, who in turn celebrated their fifth title win in a row .

In the 2010/11 season El-Amin played for the Lithuanian champions Lietuvos rytas from Vilnius . In the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2010/11 , the team was eliminated in the second group stage of the 16 best teams, although El-Amin was still "Player of the Week" on the second matchday of the intermediate round. At the Final Four of the Baltic Basketball League they lost the semi-finals against the Latvian champions VEF Riga and also lost the final series of the Lithuanian championship against eternal rival Žalgiris Kaunas as defending champions , but El-Amin missed the end of the season after an injury. In the 2011/12 season El-Amin played for the traditional club and Croatian record champions KK Cibona from the capital Zagreb . In the Eurocup 2011/12 they remained without a win in the preliminary round and in the ABA league it was only enough for the club to take seventh place, but in the Croatian championship the club was able to get back the title it had lost in the previous year with El-Amin. In the 2012/13 season El-Amin returned to France, where he had played at the beginning of his European career, and played for the former runner-up MSB from Le Mans in the Pro A. After a rather moderate season, an agreement was reached in mid-February 2013 to a contract termination. For the 2013/14 season, El-Amin again signed a contract on the Black Sea, but this time on the Turkish north coast in Trabzon . In a game in a cup competition for the first division returnees at the beginning of the season, El-Amin tore his Achilles tendon and was unable to play a championship game for the rest of the season.

El-Amin returned to the field in the 2014/15 season with the German Bundesliga promoted BG Göttingen . He played 32 Bundesliga matches for the "Veilchen" this year and was always in the starting line-up. With an average of 14.5 points and 4.8 basket assists per game, El-Amin was the top performer of Lower Saxony. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he was under contract with the Kosovar club Sigal Prishtina, in December 2015 he returned to the BG Göttingen. He played 16 Bundesliga games for the BG in the 2015/16 season and achieved average values ​​of 13.1 points and 6.4 assists per game. In May 2016, he had his back surgery. At the age of almost 38 he played briefly for the Marinos de Anzoategui in Venezuela in the 2017 spring season.

He ended his playing career and became an assistant coach of the basketball team at Minneapolis North High School, where he once played himself.

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Khalid El-Amin - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• EL-AMIN, KHALID - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Khalid El-Amin - Turkish Basketball League Player - TBL statistics on the websites of TBLStat.net (English)
• Khalid El-Amin - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gatorade Player of the Year. Gatorade , accessed on December 26, 2014 (English, filter to “boys basketball”, “1995 - 1996” and “Minnesota”). 
2. ↑ Mr. Basketball. Star Tribune : MNBasketballHub.com, accessed December 26, 2014 (historical list of winners). 
3. ↑ Fourth Men's Goodwill Games 1998. (No longer available online.) USA Basketball , archived from the original on December 26, 2014 ; accessed on December 26, 2014 (English, tournament chronicle). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Scott Smith: All-time champions: No. 4 1999 UConn / Basketball. SportingNews.com, April 24, 2012, accessed December 26, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Uconn vs. Duke 1999 NCAA Championship Part 7. YouTube , November 20, 2011, accessed on December 26, 2014 (English, upload by user “215hoops1”; re-live of the last two minutes of the game). 
6. ↑ Akasvayu Girona - Azovmash / EuroCup 2007. FIBA Europe , April 15, 2007, accessed on December 26, 2014 (English, Game Report). 
7. ↑ Sportingbet Top 16, Week 2 co-MVPs: Khalid El-Amin, Marcelinho Huertas. ULEB , February 28, 2011, accessed December 26, 2014 (English, media info). 
8. ↑ Andy Mannix: Khalid El-Amin won't quit. (No longer available online.) Minneapolis City Pages: CityPages.com, May 4, 2011, archived from the original on December 26, 2014 ; accessed on December 26, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Khalid El-Amin - Le Mans - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on December 26, 2014 (French, player profile). 
10. ↑ Khalid El-Amin sidelined for 6 months. Court-Side.com, October 11, 2013, accessed on December 26, 2014 (English, message on the web portal of a player agency). 
11. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/31711-khalid-el-amin/
12. ↑ http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Sportbuzzer/BG-Goettingen/BG-Goettingen-holt-Khalid-El-Amin-zurueck
13. ↑ http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Sportbuzzer/BG-Goettingen/BG-Goettingen-Star-Khalid-El-Amin-nach-OP-zurueck-in-den-USA
14. ↑ https://www.bebasket.fr/championnat-al-etranger/khalid-el-amin-rejoint-le-venezuela.html
15. ↑ https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/01/12/khalid-el-amin-north-high/