Pape Moustapha Diop | |
Position: | Power forward |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 8 |
League: | Nationale Masculine 2 |
Team: | Andrezieux |
Birth Date: | 1996 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Dakar, Senegal |
Nationality: | Senegalese |
College: | Cape Breton (2017–2018) |
Draft Year: | 2018 |
Career Start: | 2018 |
Years1: | 2018–2019 |
Team1: | Tallinna Kalev |
Years2: | 2018–2021 |
Team2: | AS Douanes |
Years3: | 2021 |
Team3: | DUC |
Years4: | 2021–2022 |
Team4: | Joeuf-Homécourt Basket |
Years5: | 2022–present |
Team5: | Andrezieux |
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Pape Moustapha Diop (born 1 January 1996) is a Senegalese basketball player. He plays for the Senegal national basketball team and Andrezieux in France.
A Dakar native,[1] Diop played college basketball in Canada for Cape Breton University of Sydney. He averaged 2.5 points in 12.5 minutes per game in the 2017–18 season.[2] On January 13, 2018, Diop scored a career-high 11 points in a 114–93 loss against UNB.[3]
Diop played for the Estonian Side BC Tallinna Kalev in the 2018–19 season,[4] he averaged 1.25 points, 0.75 rebound and 0.25 assists per game.[5] [6]
In 2019, Diop returned to Senegal to play for AS Douanes. On November 4, 2019, he was named the MVP of the Senegalese Basketball Cup after a 28 points and 13 rebounds performance in the final.[7] In the same season, he also won the Nationale 1 title and was named the league's Finals MVP.[8]
In 2021, he transferred to DUC Dakar.[9]
In the 2021–22 season, Diop plays for Joeuf-Homécourt Basket in the National Masculine 2, the French fourth tier level. He scored 37 points in his debut against Étoile Charleville-Mézières.[10]
Diop represented the Senegal national basketball team at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification where he averaged 2 points, 2.3 rebound and 0.5 assists per game.[11] He also played at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China, where he averaged 3 points, 1 rebound and 0.2 assists per game.[12] Diop also played at FIBA AfroBasket 2021, helping the team win a bronze medal.