Kebu Omar Stewart (born December 19, 1973)
is an American assistant
college basketball
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coach and retired
basketball
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player. He played in the
NBA
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and had a rich international career, playing in several countries.
High school and college career
Stewart was a star high school player at national powerhouse
Oak Hill Academy and later on at Our Saviour Lutheran in the
Bronx
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, where he averaged nearly 36 points per game and earned honorable mention All American honors in the 1992–92 season.
Stewart signed to play at
UNLV
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. ...
, but was academically ineligible his freshman year. He
redshirted
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, and played the 1993–94 season with the
Runnin' Rebels. Although Stewart wasn't eligible until January, he won
Big West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
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honors (becoming the first ever freshman to win the award), averaging 19 points and 12 rebounds per game. Stewart, who reportedly clashed with the coaching staff several times, was suspended from the team after the following season. He later transferred to Division II
Cal State Bakersfield
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, where he went on to become Division II Player of the Year and California Collegiate Athletic Association Player of the Year as a senior, leading the team to the NCAA Division II national championship. He also led the nation (Division II) in rebounding as a senior in 1996–97 with 13.4 rpg.
Professional career
Stewart was drafted by the
Philadelphia 76ers
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in the 2nd round of the
1997 NBA draft
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, and played 15 games during the
1997–98 NBA season
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, averaging 2.7 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. He played for the
Sioux Falls Skyforce
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of the
Continental Basketball Association
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(CBA) from 1998 to 2000. He was selected to the All-CBA First Team in 2000.
Stewart started his overseas career in
Israel
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with
Hapoel Jerusalem
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in the 2000–01 season. Then, he played for
Avtodor Saratov
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and
UNICS in
Russia
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(2001–2003). He also played few games for
Prokom Trefl Sopot
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(
Poland
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) and
Adecco Estudiantes
Club Baloncesto Estudiantes, S.A.D., (English: Club Basketball Students) known simply as Estu and as Movistar Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in the city of Madrid, Spain. It is a member of the Liga ACB, Asociación ...
(
Spain
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), before signed for
NIS Vojvodina (
Serbia and Montenegro
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) in late 2003. After two seasons there, he moved to
Italy
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and played for
Vertical Vision Cantù in the 2005–06 season. In the 2006–07 season, he played for
Seoul SK Knights
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(
South Korea
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) and
Crvena zvezda
Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...
(
Serbia
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). He last played for
Barons/LMT Rīga (
Latvia
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) in the 2007–08 season, but left the team during the first half of the season.
Coaching career
At present, Stewart works as an assistant basketball coach for
Occidental College
Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is ...
, an
NCAA Division III
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college located in
Los Angeles, California
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.
References
External links
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Kebu Stewartat ACB.com
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1973 births
Living people
20th-century African-American sportsmen
21st-century African-American sportsmen
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Latvia
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Russia
American expatriate basketball people in Serbia
American expatriate basketball people in South Korea
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American men's basketball players
Atléticos de San Germán players
BC Avtodor players
BC UNICS players
BK Barons players
Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners men's basketball players
CB Estudiantes players
Hapoel Jerusalem B.C. players
Israeli Basketball Premier League players
KK Crvena zvezda players
KK Vojvodina Srbijagas players
Korean Basketball League players
Liga ACB players
Pallacanestro Cantù players
Philadelphia 76ers draft picks
Philadelphia 76ers players
Power forwards
Seoul SK Knights players
Sioux Falls Skyforce (CBA) players
Basketball players from Brooklyn
Trefl Sopot players
UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball players
Vaqueros de Bayamón basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in Serbia and Montenegro