Shareef Abdur-Rahim

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Shareef Abdur-Rahim
Position	Forward
Nickname	Reef
Height	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Weight	245 lb (111 kg)
Team	Sacramento Kings
Nationality	United States
Born	December 11, 1976 Marietta, Georgia
College	California
Draft	3^rd overall, 1996 Vancouver Grizzlies
Pro career	1996 – present
Former teams	Vancouver Grizzlies (1996-2001) Atlanta Hawks (2001-2004) Portland Trail Blazers (2004-2005)

Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim (born December 11, 1976 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player. He is currently a member of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association.

Abdur-Rahim played basketball at Joseph Wheeler High School in Marietta where he was named as "Mr. Basketball" in back-to-back seasons, leading the school to a state title as a junior in 1994 (his siblings played at Wheeler too and also won several state championships). He later attended college at the University of California, Berkeley for one year, after which he was selected by the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies with the 3rd pick in the 1996 NBA Draft.

He made an immediate impact with the Grizzlies, becoming their leading scorer, and was clearly the best player on an otherwise dismal team. In 2001, he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks where he remained the premier player for several years. He was selected to the NBA All-Star team in 2002. Abdur-Rahim was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers on February 9, 2004, along with Theo Ratliff and Dan Dickau, in exchange for Rasheed Wallace and Wesley Person. He played 1½ seasons in Portland before becoming a free agent at the end of the 2004-05 season.

During the 2005 off-season he was traded via a sign and trade agreement (in principle) to the New Jersey Nets, but on August 4, the press conference planned to announce his arrival was postponed, and it was revealed he had failed a required physical on account of scar tissue found in his knee. The trade was put on hold, pending a second opinion from other medical sources. On August 7 Abdur-Rahim was quoted as saying "I don't feel I want to be a Net" [1]. He felt the knee was a non-issue and claimed he never missed a game in his entire career because of the knee injury. Two days later, it was announced New Jersey had decided to rescind the trade.

On August 12, Abdur-Rahim signed a free agent contract with the Sacramento Kings. He had never made the playoffs before Sacramento, and had played the second-most number of games in NBA history without participating in the postseason.

He is Muslim, and his father is an Imam.