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The Most Famous

BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Iran

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This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 59th most number of Basketball Players behind Panama and Tunisia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Iranian Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Hamed Haddadi (1985 - )

With an HPI of 34.96, Hamed Haddadi is the most famous Iranian Basketball Player.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.

Hamed Ehdadi Haddadi (Persian: حامد حدادی, Persian pronunciation: [hɑmɛd ɛ hæddɑdi], born May 19, 1985) is an Iranian former professional basketball player. He played at the center position and is 7'2" (2.18 meters) tall and weighs 254 lbs (115 kilograms). Haddadi was the first Iranian to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) when he debuted with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2008. He played with the Grizzlies until 2013 before bouncing around the league with the Toronto Raptors and the Phoenix Suns. In 2013, he returned home to Iran before playing in China. He is now playing in Palayesh Naft Abadan BC

Pantheon has 1 people classified as basketball players born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living basketball players include Hamed Haddadi.

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