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Mohamed Diawara (born 29 April 2005) is a French professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously played for Cholet Basket of the LNB Élite. Standing at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he plays in the power forward position. In his rookie season, his team won the 2026 NBA Finals.
Diawara began his basketball career with the Parisian club La Domremy Basket 13 and later played for the youth team of Saint Charles Basket in Charenton-le-Pont. In the 2020–21 season, he was trained at the French academy INSEP and moved to Paris Basketball in the summer of 2021, for which he made his first appearances in the French first division in the following 2021–22 season. In the summer of 2022, he was named the best player at the Basketball Without Borders talent scouting event organized by the world governing body FIBA and the NBA in Milan.
In December 2023, Diawara was loaned to second-division club Poitiers Basket 86, after receiving little playing time in Paris during the previous 2023–24 season. He was signed by first-division club Cholet Basket during the…
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