Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim was born on December 11,1976 and is an American former professional basketball player who is the president of the NBA G League.
32 Facts About Shareef Abdur-Rahim
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim emerged as a prospect at Joseph Wheeler High School in his hometown of Marietta, Georgia.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim was selected third overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies where he was the star of the team during his early NBA career.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim played on the United States men's national basketball team that won the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in 2004 before he signed with his last team, the Sacramento Kings, in 2008.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim is the second eldest sibling in the family of twelve children born to Aminah and William Abdur-Rahim.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim himself started playing competitive basketball at Joseph Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim later attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, where he maintained a GPA of 3.5.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim was the first freshman in Pac-10 history to win Conference Player of the Year honors, and was named Third Team All-America by the Associated Press.
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Also named the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, Shareef Abdur-Rahim set single-season freshman records for points, scoring average, field goals, and free throws.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim was selected third overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the 1996 Draft, behind Allen Iverson and Marcus Camby.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim made an immediate impact playing for the Grizzlies, becoming the team's leading scorer while setting a franchise record of 18.7 points per game.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim averaged 6.9 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim finished third in balloting for the Schick NBA Rookie of the Year behind Philadelphia's Allen Iverson and Minnesota's Stephon Marbury, and he was picked for the All-Rookie First Team.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim was sent, along with Theo Ratliff and Dan Dickau, to the Portland Trail Blazers on February 9,2004, in exchange for Rasheed Wallace and Wesley Person.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim felt the knee was a non-issue, claiming that he never missed a game in his entire career because of the knee injury.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim made his postseason career debut against the San Antonio Spurs.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim had played the second most games in NBA history without making a playoff appearance ; he made the playoffs for the first and only time in 2006.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim joined the Sacramento Kings' coaching staff as an assistant the following week.
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On October 7,2010, Shareef Abdur-Rahim was hired to be the assistant general manager for the Sacramento Kings.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim later became the team's director of player personnel, a position he held in 2014 after new ownership had taken over in 2013.
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League sources would later report his departure occurred after the 2014 NBA draft, where Shareef Abdur-Rahim had arguments with coach Mike Malone and general manager Pete D'Alessandro.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim averaged a double-double of 16.8 points and 10.1 rebounds.
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On October 2,2008, Shareef Abdur-Rahim was named as the assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim was the associate vice president of basketball operations of the NBA.
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On December 11,2018, Shareef Abdur-Rahim was named the president of the NBA G League, and replaced Malcolm Turner who stepped down on January 11,2019, to become the Athletics Director at Vanderbilt University.
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Jabri Shareef Abdur-Rahim is rated as an ESPN Top 30 player in the high school Class of 2020 and committed to play for the Virginia Cavaliers under Tony Bennett.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim has since transferred to the University of Georgia.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim has started his own foundation, the Future Foundation, which provides after-school and other support services for youth at-risk in Atlanta.
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On television, Shareef Abdur-Rahim has appeared on an episode of The Jamie Foxx Show with fellow NBA players Gary Payton and Vin Baker.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim earned an MBA at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business in 2016.
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Shareef Abdur-Rahim is referenced in the Latyrx song "The Quickening ", from their 1997 album The Album.