1. El Hadji Tacko Sereigne Diop Fall was born on 10 December 1995 and is a Senegalese professional basketball player for the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League.
34 Facts About Tacko Fall
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Tacko Fall has previously played in the National Basketball Association for the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Tacko Fall moved to the United States at age 16 and later played college basketball for the UCF Knights.
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Tacko Fall signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers as a free agent in 2021.
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Tacko Fall first played organized basketball in Houston, Texas, and trained with NBA Hall-of-Famer Hakeem Olajuwon.
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Tacko Fall first played for Jamie's House Charter School in Houston, where his team won the state championship.
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Tacko Fall played with ISTI all-stars summer travel team and for Each 1 Teach 1 on the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League circuit where he played alongside fellow class of 2015 recruits Antonio Blakeney and Ben Simmons.
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Tacko Fall played in several NCAA certified events, including the NBPA Top 100 Camp in Virginia.
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Tacko Fall then attended Liberty Christian Preparatory School in Tavares, Florida.
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Tacko Fall played with the UCF Knights under head coach Donnie Jones.
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Tacko Fall played college basketball at University of Central Florida for Knights as a center.
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In 2017, Tacko Fall was named American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year.
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Tacko Fall grew to be an efficient player, ranking second nationally in field-goal percentage as of January 2017.
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On 5 April 2017, Tacko Fall declared for the 2017 NBA draft, with the possibility of returning to Central Florida still available to him before the end of the draft lottery that year.
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On 24 May 2017, Tacko Fall withdrew his name from consideration for the NBA draft, to return to UCF for his junior year.
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Tacko Fall played for the Celtics during the 2019 NBA Summer League season, scoring six points in his first game alongside four rebounds; in his second game, Tacko Fall tallied 12 points for his first double-digit scoring game, alongside another rebound.
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Tacko Fall had one blocked shot in each of his first two games.
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Tacko Fall concluded his 2019 Summer League run participating in all five games with the Celtics and averaging 7.2 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.4 blocks, and shooting a team-high 77 percent from the field.
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Tacko Fall played for four minutes, scoring four points and grabbing three rebounds, with his first points coming from a standing dunk.
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Tacko Fall earned All-Defensive Team honors, with averages of nearly three blocks per game.
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Tacko Fall led the Celtics in field goal percentage for the second season in a row.
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On 27 September 2021, Tacko Fall signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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On 9 January 2022, Tacko Fall was waived by the Cavaliers.
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On 12 January 2022, Tacko Fall was re-acquired by the Cleveland Charge.
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On 24 August 2022, Tacko Fall signed a one-year contract to play for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association.
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Tacko Fall joined the Milwaukee Bucks for the 2023 NBA Summer League.
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On 17 August 2023, Tacko Fall signed with the Nanjing Monkey Kings of the Chinese Basketball Association.
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In September 2024, Tacko Fall joined the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League for the club's three-game US tour.
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Tacko Fall went on to miss all three games due to a quad injury.
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Tacko Fall returned with the Breakers to New Zealand where he trained with the team as a practice player.
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Tacko Fall is a Muslim, and selected the jersey number 99 with the Celtics as a reference to the 99 names of Allah.
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Tacko Fall maintained a 4.0 grade-point average in high school, while taking advanced mathematics and science classes.
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Tacko Fall became fluent in English within eight months and scored in the 95th percentile on the SAT.
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Tacko Fall was a computer-science major at UCF and originally had aspirations of becoming an engineer for electronic companies such as Siemens or Microsoft.