- Ashraf Amaya
Ashraf (Andrew) Amaya (born
November 23 ,1971 inOak Park, Illinois ) is a retired Americanbasketball player.Amaya attended Oak Park and River Forest High School for his freshman year but he transferred to Walther Lutheran High School to finish his high school career. While at Walther, Amaya led the Broncos to a 3rd place finish in the 1988 Illinois High School Associaition playoffs. Amaya's number 50 jersey is retired at Walther. He played collegiately for the
Southern Illinois University . Amaya then would appear for theVancouver Grizzlies (1995-96) and Washington Bullets (1996-97) in the NBA for 85 games. [ [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/amayaas01.html Amaya career statistics] ]He played for the US national team in the
1998 FIBA World Championship , winning the bronze medal. [ [http://www.usabasketball.com/history/mwc_1998.html 1998 USA Basketball] ]He last played professionally for the
Apollon Patras BC club in Greece in 2004. He also played for theDakota Wizards of the NBDL, Alpella Istanbul in Turkey,Idaho Stampede in the CBA and Maroussi Athens in Greece with whom he won theSaporta Cup in 2001. [ [http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=115,dt=18.04.2001,id=45481444 Marousi Saporta winner] gr icon]References
External links
* [http://www.nba.com/historical/playerfile/index.html?player=ashraf_amaya nba.com historical playerfile]
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