Islam Abbas Explained

Position:Power forward
Islam Abbaas
Height Ft:6
Height In:6+3/4
Weight Lb:245
Team:ASU Sports Club
League:Jordanian Premier League
Nationality:Jordanian
Birth Date:March 11, 1980
Birth Place:Palestine

Islam Abbaas (born March 11, 1980) is a Palestinian-Jordanian professional basketball player. He is a member of the Jordan national basketball team.

Abbaas competed with the Jordanian team at the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009. In 2009, Abbaas helped the Jordanian team to a national best third-place finish by averaging 4.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.[1]

Although Abbaas saw limited action off the bench for most of the 2009 tournament, he scored 23 points and grabbed a tournament-high 19 rebounds in only 23 minutes of action in a first round 105–47 win over Indonesia.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FIBA Player Profile . 2009-12-30 . 2009-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090810081610/http://china2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/fascm/player/p/pid/63481/sid/7038/tid/310/profile.html . dead .
  2. https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/game/p/gid/3/grid/D/rid/7118/sid/7038/tid/310/_/2009_FIBA_Asia_Championship_for_Men/statistic.html Jordan v. Indonesia boxscore