Lamine Diawara

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