Islam Abbas
Palestinian-Jordanian basketball player
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Islam Abbas (born March 11, 1980) is a Palestinian-Jordanian professional basketball player. He is a member of the Jordan national basketball team.
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| Position | Power forward | ||||||||||||||
| League | Jordanian Premier League | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | March 11, 1980 | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Jordanian | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 6+3⁄4 in (2.00 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 245 lb (111 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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Abbaas competed with the Jordanian team at the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009. In 2009, Abbaas helped the Jordanian team to a national best third-place finish by averaging 4.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.[1]
Although Abbaas saw limited action off the bench for most of the 2009 tournament, he scored 23 points and grabbed a tournament-high 19 rebounds in only 23 minutes of action in a first round 105–47 win over Indonesia.[2]
