Omar Abada
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| Position | Point guard | |||||||||||||||||||
| League | Saudi Premier League | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 April 1993 Tunis, Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Tunisian | |||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 2010–present | |||||||||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2018 | Étoile de Radès | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Saint-Chamond | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2021 | US Monastir | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–present | Al-Ittihad Jeddah | |||||||||||||||||||
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Omar Abada (Arabic: عمر عبادة, born 20 April 1993) is a Tunisian professional basketball player. He currently plays for Al-Ittihad Jeddah of the Saudi Premier League. Abada also plays for the Tunisia national basketball team.
Professional career[]
Abada started his career with Étoile de Radès in the Tunisian Championnat National A and helped the team win two national championships. In the 2017 FIBA Africa Champions Cup he was named to the All-Star Team.
In the 2018–19 season, Abada played one season in France for Saint-Chamond Basket.
In 2019, he returned to Tunisia to play for US Monastir. He played in the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) with Monastir and helped his team reach the Finals. After the tournament, he was named to the All-BAL First Team.
National team career[]
Abada has represented Tunisia's national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA Africa Championship in Radès, Tunisia. There, he recorded his team's best two point field goal percentage.[1] At AfroBasket 2017 and AfroBasket 2021, he won gold.
BAL career statistics[]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 2021 | Monastir | 6 | 6 | 27.6 | .400 | .312 | .708 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 2.0 | .3 | 11.0 |
| Career | 6 | 6 | 27.6 | .400 | .312 | .708 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 2.0 | .3 | 11.0 | |
References[]
- ^ 2015 FIBA Africa Championship – Omar Abada's profile, FIBA.com, accessed 11 Feb 2016.
External links[]
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Tunisia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
- Point guards
- Saint-Chamond Basket players
- Sportspeople from Tunis
- Tunisian expatriate basketball people in France
- Tunisian men's basketball players
- US Monastir basketball players