Arsalan Kazemi
Basketball Player
1990 –
Who is Arsalan Kazemi?
Arsalan Kazemi Naeini is an Iranian professional basketball player. He played his college basketball for the Oregon Ducks and the Rice Owls basketball teams. He was the 54th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft by the Washington Wizards, becoming the first Iranian to be drafted into the league. Soon afterwards, Kazemi was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers.
He was the captain of the Iranian under-18 national basketball team and has previously played for Zob Ahan Isfahan in the Iranian Basketball Super League at the age of 17 before travelling to the United States in February 2008.
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- Born
- Apr 22, 1990
Isfahan - Also known as
- Каземи, Арсалан
- Parents
- Nationality
- Iran
- Profession
- Education
- The Patterson School
- Rice University
- Lived in
- Isfahan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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