Lamine Diawara

For the Malian footballer, see Lamine Diawara (footballer).
Lamine Diawara
Personal information
Born1971
Bamako, Mali
NationalityMalian
Listed height6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)
Career highlights and awards

Lamine Diawara (born 1971 in Bamako) is a retired Malian basketball player. Diawara was a member of the Mali national basketball team, and earned the FIBA AfroBasket Most Valuable Player while playing with Team Mali at the FIBA Africa Championship 1999[citation needed].

Diawara played his club ball with Al Ittihad Aleppo in Syria, where he was both the import player of the year and player of the year in 2005-06 in Syria's top league.[1] Prior to playing in Syria, Diawara played with Anibal Zahle in the Lebanese Basketball League.[2]

The 6'10" (206 cm) Diawara is the brother of former WNBA player Nare Diawara[3] and current (2019–20) Ligue Féminine de Basketball player Diéné Diawara.[4]

  1. ^ Division One Syria at Asia-basket.com
  2. ^ Hokie hoops in great spot; football schedule released; and other Tech tidbits The Roth Report, Hokie Sports, 25 January 2007
  3. ^ Talk of the town Archived 2007-05-23 at the Wayback Machine in the Collegiate Times, April 11, 2007
  4. ^ Diene Diawara profile at fiba.com