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Chapters: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Joe Bryant, Joe Vogel, Jawad Williams, Kenny Walker, Matt Steigenga, Antonio Lang, J. R. Sakuragi, Eric Reveno, Kenny Payne, Charles O'bannon, Cedric Ball, Derek Grimm, Ronald Draper, Ron Adams. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (born Chris Wayne Jackson; March 9, 1969) is an American professional basketball player. Abdul-Rauf was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. He changed his name in 1991 upon his conversion to Islam. After a record-setting college career at Louisiana State University, he was selected with the third pick in the 1990 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets. He played with Denver until 1995, and was a key player on that team, winning the Most Improved Player award in 1993. Abdul-Rauf later went on to play for the Sacramento Kings and later the Vancouver Grizzlies. He led the league in free throw percentage in 1994 and 1996, narrowly missing (by one missed free throw) the NBA all-time record for free-throw percentage in a single season in 1993-94 (he went 219-229 from the line for a 95.6 percentage as opposed to Calvin Murphy's 95.8% (206-215) all-time record dating back to 1980-81). After leaving the NBA he played professional basketball in Europe, retiring at the end of 2004-05 season. For the season 2006-07 he came out of retirement for the third time in his career to play for Aris Thessaloniki. He now plays for Kyoto Hannaryz in the Japanese BJ league. Abdul-Rauf overcame the challenge of Tourette syndrome to have an athletic career. Abdul-Rauf is perhaps best known for the controversy created when he refused to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games, stating that the flag was a symbol of oppression and that the United States had a long history of tyranny. He said that standing...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=430336 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Steve Alford, Antoine Wright, Micheal Ray Richardson, Rick Fox, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Maurice Ager, David Rivers, God Shammgod, Courtney Alexander, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Jeff Sheppard, Jerome Anderson. Excerpt:No. 21 Toronto Raptors item Info Page Antoine Domonick Wright (born February 6, 1984 in West Covina, California ) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA 's Toronto Raptors . He was selected 15th overall in the 2005 NBA Draft by the Nets (the highest pick from the Big 12 Conference that year and in Texas A ... Read more