Bamba Fall (born May 27, 1986) is a Senegalese professional basketball player who currently plays for Fundación CB Granada of the Spanish LEB Oro league. He played college basketball for the

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and represents the

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in international competition.

College career

Fall attended Oak Hill Academy from 2003–2005. While at Oak Hill, the team finished ranked #1 in the country both years Fall attended. Fall began attending SMU in 2005 and since then has played in 43 games (18 as a freshman, 25 as a sophomore) and averaged a career high of 7.1 points per game in 2006-2007 while also leading

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s (19th nationally). He was also voted to the conference all-defensive team in 2006-2007.

International career

Chosen to represent Senegal in July 2007, Fall was the youngest player on the Senegalese national team that finished in ninth place at the

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Professional career

Fall started his professional career in

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where he signed for Hapoel Afula from the Israeli Basketball Super League in September 2009, but was released before he played for the team and moved to Hapoel Gilboa Galil, where he played one game before being released again. Then he moved to Hapoel Lev Hasharon from the

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where he averaged 12.8 pts and 9.4 rebounds in 27 minutes of play in a span of 12 games, which followed in him choosing to leave in order to go back to Senegal to obtain a new visa in order to finish his season in the

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. In August 2011, Fall signed a three-year contract with

BC Kalev/Cramo BC Kalev, known as BC Kalev/Cramo for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Tallinn, Estonia. The team plays in the Korvpalli Meistriliiga, the Estonian-Latvian Basketball League and the FIBA Europe Cup. They play their ...

of Estonia. He was chosen as the

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Defensive Player of the Year after his first season with the team. In July 2014, he signed with the Latvian team VEF Rīga.VEF Rīga signs Bamba Fall
/ref> In October 2017, Fall signed TLÜ/Kalev, team in Estonian Korvpalli Meistriliiga (KML). In September 2019, he signed with a basketball team HLA Alicante (LEB Oro), Spain In August 2020, he signed with Fundación CB Granada (LEB Oro), Spain In July 2021, he signed with

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(LEB Oro), Spain

References

External links

Safsal Profile

Statistics at ESPN.comStatistics at basket.ee
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