Shareef Abdur-Rahim

Shareef Abdur-Rahim was born in Marietta, Georgia on 11 December 1976; his full name is Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim.¹² The Vancouver Grizzlies drafted him third overall in 1996 after one season at the University of California, Berkeley, and he played twelve seasons in the NBA.¹ Abdur-Rahim won the gold medal with the United States team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.¹³ After retiring as a player in 2008 he held front-office posts with the Sacramento Kings and the league office, and became president of the developmental NBA G League in 2018.¹

Abdur-Rahim was born to Muslim parents of African origin, the third of his family's children, and starred in high-school basketball, earning selection to the McDonald's All-American team.³¹ In the NBA he moved between Vancouver, Atlanta, Portland and Sacramento, and was selected once to the All-Star team, in 2002, while playing for the Atlanta Hawks.¹ After retirement he worked as an assistant coach and then a front-office executive with the Sacramento Kings, as general manager of the Reno Bighorns in 2013, and as the NBA's associate vice president of basketball operations.¹ Abdur-Rahim was appointed president of the NBA G League in December 2018, succeeding Malcolm Turner.¹

Abdur-Rahim founded the Future Foundation, which provides after-school services and support for at-risk youth in Atlanta.¹ He returned to the University of California, Berkeley after retirement and earned a degree in sociology in 2012, then an MBA from the University of Southern California in 2016.¹

This section sets out different positions as reported in the sources. It is not a verdict by the museum. The English article's text does not state Abdur-Rahim's religion, and its categories file him only as a Muslim from Georgia and from California, while the Arabic article says he was born to Muslim parents of African origin; family background is not an attestation of a school, so his school is recorded in the museum's data as unknown.¹³² His public image in the sources centres on his playing and executive career and his educational charity work, with no public controversies recorded.¹

• Shareef Abdur-Rahim — English Wikipedia¹
• Shareef Abdur-Rahim — Arabic Wikipedia³
• Shareef Abdur-Rahim — Wikidata Q352073²