Mamadi Diakite has won NCAA, G League and NBA championships – now he wants to make Dubai his home
The life of a professional basketball player can be a nomadic one and perhaps no one understands that more than Dubai Basketball’s summer recruit Mamadi Diakite. The Guinea native left home at 15 to study and play basketball in the United States and went on to win a national championship with the University of Virginia (UVA), scoring a famous buzzer-beater along the way that has gone down as one…
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