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  "id": 8004498,
  "title": "Mamadi Diakite has won NCAA, G League and NBA championships – now he wants to make Dubai his home",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/mamadi-diakite-has-won-ncaa-g-league-and-nba-championships-now-he",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-17T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National Business",
    "slug": "the-national-business",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/2026/09/17/mamadi-diakite-has-won-ncaa-g-league-and-nba-championships-now-he-wants-to-make-dubai-his-home/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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        "title": "Mamadi Diakite has won NCAA, G League and NBA championships – now he wants to make Dubai his home",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/mamadi-diakite-has-won-ncaa-g-league-and-nba-championships-now-he-8008258",
        "published": "2026-09-17T10:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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