Boubacar Moungoro
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| Position | Shooting guard / small forward | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Born | September 22, 1994 Bamako, Mali | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Malian | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| High school | IMG Academy (Bradenton, Florida) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2014: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Baloncesto Fuenlabrada | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | → Viten Getafe | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Oklahoma City Blue | ||||||||||||||
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Boubacar Moungoro (born September 22, 1994) is a Malian professional basketball player. He declared for the 2014 NBA draft after averaging 8.0 points and 2.5 rebounds with Baloncesto Fuenlabrada.[1]
Professional career
[edit]Moungoro forwent college after completing his high school career with IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.[2] The Bamako native is currently represented by agent Travis King, who has also worked with Robert Covington, and Amar'e Stoudemire in the past.[3] Moungoro has also played for the youth teams of the Mali national basketball team in the past, logging an average of 26 minutes in the 2013 Nike Global Challenge.[4] On November 3, he was acquired by the Oklahoma City Blue after a successful tryout.[5]
Mali national team
[edit]In February 2015, it was announced that Moungoro would join the Mali national team at play in the 2015 FIBA Africa Championship qualification against Senegal.[6] In the first game, won by Mali by 65–43, Moungoro scored 12 points and retrieved five rebounds,[7] while in the second leg he scored seven points in the win abroad of his team by 50–47.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Boubacar Moungoro Player Profile". RealGM. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "DraftExpress - Boubacar Moungoro". DraftExpress. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "DraftExpress - Travis King". DraftExpress. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Boubacar Moungoro - D1 Circuit". D1Circuit. Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ^ "Oklahoma City Blue Announces Training Camp Roster". NBA.com. November 3, 2015. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ^ "Boubacar Moungoro, internacional absoluto por Mali". ACB.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ Mali 65–43 Senegal boxscore
- ^ Senegal 47–50 Mali boxscore