El Jaish SC is a
Qatari
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sha ...
professional
basketball
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club. The club competes in the
Qatari Basketball League
The Qatari Basketball League () is the top-tier men's basketball league operating in Qatar. The winning team obtains the participation right to the FIBA Asia Champions Cup. The first official season took place in 1981/82. There is a second divisi ...
.
The club has traditionally provided
Qatar's national basketball team
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with key players.
2015 FIBA Asia Championship – Qatar Roster
FIBA.com, accessed 16 May 2016.
Current roster
Notable players
* Mohd Mohamed
Mohammed Yousuf Mohamed ( ar, محمد يوسف محمد) (born Sep 9, 1982) is a Qatari professional basketball player. He currently plays for Al-Gharafa SC of the Qatari Basketball League.
He represented Qatar's national basketball team at t ...
* Mohamed Youssef
* Anthony Anderson
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* Devan Downey
Devan Deangelo Downey (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional basketball player.
Amateur career
He was born in Chester, South Carolina where he attended Chester High School. Named S.C. Class AAA Player of the Year and Mr. Basketb ...
* Sean Lampley
Sean Lampley (born September 3, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player.
College career
Lampley played at the University of California, leading the Golden Bears to victory over Clemson in the 1999 National Invitational Tourna ...
* Alex Legion
Alex Legion (born November 16, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for CD Valdivia of the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile before ending his career in 2019.
College career
He signed out of high school with ...
* Vernon Macklin
Vernon Leon Macklin (born September 25, 1986) is an American basketball coach and former professional basketball player. He is an assistant coach of the Ulsan Hyundai Mobis in the Korean Basketball League (KBL). Macklin played college basketball ...
See also
*El Jaish SC
El-Jaish Sports Club ( ar, نادي الجيش الرياضي) was a Qatari multi-sports club from 2011 to 2017, based in the Al-Duhail area of Doha. The association football team played in the Qatar Stars League. The team won the Qatargas Le ...
References
External links
Asia-Basket.com Team Page
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Basketball teams in Doha
Basketball teams established in 2007
El Jaish SC