The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Tanzania
This page contains a list of the greatest Tanzanian Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Tanzania. This makes Tanzania the birth place of the 55th most number of Basketball Players behind Republic of the Congo and Uzbekistan.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tanzanian Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Tanzanian Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Hasheem Thabeet (1987 - )
With an HPI of 36.03, Hasheem Thabeet is the most famous Tanzanian Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Hasheem Thabeet (born Hashim Thabit Manka; 16 February 1987) is a Tanzanian professional basketball player. He played college basketball for UConn before being drafted second overall in the 2009 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies. His performance as a second overall draft pick has led many analysts to label him as one of the "biggest busts" in NBA history.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as basketball players born between 1987 and 1987. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living basketball players include Hasheem Thabeet.
