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Draft:Karim Azab

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Early life
Basketball
Personal Life
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Karim Sameh Azab (Egyptian Arabic: كريم عزَب, born 1 October 1996) was an Egyptian Basketball player for Memphis Tigers and Egypt national basketball team.

Early life

Karim was born in Giza, Egypt in 1996 to an Egyptian Muslim family. In 2014, he moved to the United States and begun his college Basketball career.

Basketball

Before coming to Memphis, Azab, 6-foot-10 and 270 pounds, had displayed his skills during international competition. He was a member of the FIBA Africa Under-18 gold-medal winning Egyptian National Team in 2014. He scored 18 points and had a team-best 11 rebounds for U-18 Egypt against Tunisia in the final game of group play in Madagascar.

Azab spent the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons with the Tigers' basketball program. He had to sit out the 2016-17 season awaiting clearance from the NCAA and made his debut season 2017–18. He played in 15 games that season as a reserve and finished with 15 points, 11 rebounds, five assists and two blocks. He was looking forward to returning, but when the season ended, he received the leukemia diagnosis.

Personal Life

In April 2018, Karim was diagnosed with leukemia. At the Tennessee Coaches vs. Cancer Tip-Off Reception in Nashville, Azab was given the annual 'Coach Dave Loos MVP Award' named for former Austin Peay coach and former Memphis player and assistant coach Dave Loos. New Memphis coach Penny Hardaway accepted the award during the Sept. 20 ceremony.^[1] In December 2018, after an eight month of courageous battle with leukemia, he lost his life.^[2]

References

1. ^{{Citation|url=https://gotigersgo.com/news/2018/11/13/mens-basketball-memphis-basketballs-karim-azab-passes-away.aspx|title=Memphis Basketball's Karim Azab passes away}}
2. ^{{Citation|url=https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/memphis-basketball-player-karim-sameh-azab-dies-at-22-after-battle-with-leukemia/|title=Memphis basketball player Karim Sameh Azab dies at 22 after battle with leukemia}}

Category:1996 birthsCategory:2018 deathsCategory:People from GizaCategory:Egyptian MuslimsCategory:Egyptian basketball playersCategory:Memphis Tigers men's basketball players

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