| Sagaba Konate | |
| Position: | Center / power forward |
| Height M: | 2.01 |
| Weight Kg: | 118 |
| League: | Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A |
| Team: | Körmend |
| Number: | 5 |
| Birth Date: | 19 March 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Bamako, Mali |
| Nationality: | Malian |
| High School: | Kennedy Catholic (Hermitage, Pennsylvania) |
| College: | West Virginia (2016–2019) |
| Draft Year: | 2019 |
| Career Start: | 2019 |
| Years1: | 2019–2020 |
| Team1: | Raptors 905 |
| Years2: | 2020 |
| Team2: | Zaragoza |
| Years3: | 2020–2021 |
| Team3: | PAOK Thessaloniki |
| Years4: | 2021–2022 |
| Team4: | Trieste |
| Years5: | 2022–2023 |
| Team5: | ratiopharm Ulm |
| Years6: | 2023 |
| Team6: | Samsunspor |
| Years7: | 2024–present |
| Team7: | BC Körmend |
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Sagaba Konate (born March 19, 1997) is a Malian professional basketball player for BC Körmend of the Hungarian first division. He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers. A native of Bamako, he moved to the United States to play at Kennedy Catholic High School starting in his junior season. As a sophomore at West Virginia, he was named third-team All-Big 12 and made the conference All-Defensive Team.[1]
Konate, who grew up playing soccer, only started playing basketball in 2014. He credits his improvement to time spent in the weight room.[2] Jeff Kollar and his wife became Konate's legal guardians as he attended Kennedy Catholic High School.[3] At the high school level, Konate earned Player of the Year and All-State honors in Pennsylvania and was a three-star recruit entering college.[4]
As a college player, Konate established himself as an expert shot-blocker, averaging 3.2 blocks per game in his sophomore year,[5] which was 3rd in the nation for Division I.[6] In addition, he averaged 10.8 points and 7.6 rebounds per contest. Konate flirted with the 2018 NBA draft, but ultimately withdrew his name and returned to West Virginia.[7] During his junior year, Konate broke the WVU all-time record for blocked shots with 191. He spent most of the season sidelined due to a knee injury. After the 2018–2019 season, Konate declared for the 2019 NBA draft foregoing his senior year.[8]
After going undrafted, Konate signed with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association on July 23, 2019.[9] He was waived and then added to the roster of their NBA G League affiliate, the Raptors 905.[10] Konate fractured his metatarsal in the preseason but returned in January 2020.[11] He averaged 4.7 points and 2.2 rebounds per game.
On August 20, 2020, Konate signed with Casademont Zaragoza of the Liga ACB.[12] On November 29, 2020, Konate announced he had signed with Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki.
On June 25, 2021, he signed with Pallacanestro Trieste of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A.[13]
On July 23, 2022, he has signed with ratiopharm Ulm of the German Basketball Bundesliga.[14]
On July 21, 2023, he signed with Samsunspor of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL).[15]
Konate has represented the under-20 Mali national basketball team, winning a bronze medal at the 2014 FIBA Africa Under-18 Championship.[16]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2016–17| style="text-align:left;"| West Virginia| 37 || 2 || 10.9 || .564 || – || .636 || 2.8 || .3 || .4 || 1.4 || 4.1|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2017–18| style="text-align:left;"| West Virginia| 36 || 36 || 25.4 || .510 || – || .790 || 7.6 || .7 || .4 || 3.2 || 10.8|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2018–19| style="text-align:left;"| West Virginia| 8 || 7 || 24.1 || .435 || .391 || .813 || 8.0 || 1.4 || .8 || 2.8 || 13.6|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career| 81 || 45 || 18.7 || .509 || .391 || .756 || 5.5 || .6 || .4 || 2.4 || 8.0