Abdoulaye Harouna
![]() Harouna in 2022 | |
No. 10 – AS Douanes | |
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Position | Shooting guard |
League | BAL NM1 |
Personal information | |
Born | Niamey, Niger | 12 February 1992
Nationality | Nigerien |
Listed height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) |
Listed weight | 81 kg (179 lb) |
Career information | |
High school | South Kent School (South Kent, Connecticut) |
College | Miami (2015–2019) |
NBA draft | 2019: undrafted |
Playing career | 2019–present |
Career history | |
2019–2020 | AS Nigelec |
2021 | FAP |
2021–2023 | AS Salé |
2023 | ABC Fighters |
2024–present | AS Douanes |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Abdoulaye Harouna Amadou (born 12 December 1992) is a Nigerien basketball player who plays for AS Douanes of the Nationale 1 and the Basketball Africa League (BAL). He has also played for the Niger national team. Harouna played college basketball for Miami RedHawks between 2015 and 2019.[1]
Early life
Born and raised in Niamey, Niger, Harouna was named MVP of the all-star game in Niger two times. He also participated at the Adidas Nations training camp in four years.
Harouna later moved to the United States to play high school basketball for the private boarding school South Kent School.[2]
College career
Harouna played for the College of Southern Idaho and earned all-region honours; he was named MVP of the Region 18 tournament and helped the Golden Eagles to a 31–3 record and number 3 seed in the NCJAA tournament.[1]
Harouna joined the Miami Redhawks team in 2015, where he wore number 30.[1] He started in 18 games in his rookie season. Harouna redshirted the 2015–16 season.[1]
Professional career
Harouna started his career with AS Nigelec in his home country Niger. In October 2019, Harouna played in the 2020 BAL Qualifying Tournaments with the team.
In May 2021, he joined Cameroonian club FAP Basketball to play in the inaugural BAL season.[3] Harouna led FAP in scoring with 19.3 points per game and guided his team to the quarterfinals.
Since November 2021, Harouna plays in Morocco with AS Salé of the Division Excellence. He helped them win the Division Excellence title in 2022.
After starting the season in Morocco with Salé, in February 2023, Harouna joined the ABC Fighters for Season 3 of the BAL.[4]
In December 2023, Harouna announced on Instagram that he had signed with Senegalese club AS Douanes, runners-up of the previous BAL season, for the 2024 season.[5] On 5 May 2024, Harouna scored a BAL career-high 35 points in a 76–59 win over Monastir.[6] Douanes was elimianted in the quarterfinals by Petro de Luanda, however, Harouna led the league in steals with 4 per game and was named to the BAL All-Defensive Team for the first time.[7] Harouna was also named to the All-BAL Second Team.[8]
BAL career statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
* | Led the league |
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2021 | FAP | 4 | 4 | 28.8 | .310 | .353 | .750 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 19.3 |
2022 | Salé | 6 | 6 | 37.4 | .446 | .418 | .636 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 19.8 |
2023 | ABC Fighters | 6 | 6 | 33.8 | .327 | .254 | .793 | 5.0 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 17.3 |
2024 | AS Douanes | 8 | 8 | 33.7 | .289 | .292 | .767 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 4.0* | 0.1 | 17.1 |
Personal
Harouna speaks English, French, Hausa and Zarma.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Abdoulaye Harouna - Men's Basketball". Miami University RedHawks. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Abdoulaye Harouna - Men's Basketball". College of Southern Idaho Athletics. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ "Cameroon's FAP out to conquer the continent at newly-launched Basketball Africa League". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ Zahe, Charles (23 February 2023). "BAL 2023 : L' ABC se renforce". AFRIKSPORTSMAGAZINE (in French). Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "Basketball : L'AS Douanes s'offre l'arrière nigérien Abdoulaye Harouna" (in French). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "LiveStats: AS Douanes v US Monastir". geniussports.com. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "Diarra, Cele named to the All-BAL Defensive Team for the second season in a row". The BAL. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ @thebal (5 June 2024). "The 2024 All-BAL Second Team!" – via Instagram.
External links
- 1992 births
- Living people
- AS Salé (basketball) players
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Morocco
- Nigerien men's basketball players
- Miami RedHawks men's basketball players
- FAP Basketball players
- Sportspeople from Niamey
- ABC Fighters players
- Nigerien expatriate basketball people
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Cameroon
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Ivory Coast
- Expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Expatriate basketball people in Morocco
- Expatriate basketball people in Cameroon
- Expatriate basketball people in Ivory Coast
- AS Douanes basketball players