Khasim Mirza (born September 14, 1986) is a Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the

GenSan Warriors The GenSan Warriors are a Filipino professional basketball team based in General Santos. The team competes in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) as a member of the league's South Division. The team most recently played their home ...

of the

Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League The Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) is a men's regional professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 30 teams. Founded in 2017 by eight-division boxing world champion and then-Senator Manny Pacquiao, the MPBL is ...

(MPBL). Born to an

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n father and a Filipina mother, Mirza played for the

University of Santo Tomas The University of Santo Tomas (UST; ), officially the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines or colloquially as ''Ustê'' (), is a Private university, private Catholic school, Catholic researc ...

Growling Tigers in the

University Athletic Association of the Philippines The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines. The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila Univ ...

for three seasons (

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). He then played for the

Philippine Patriots The Philippine Patriots, known as the AirAsia Philippine Patriots from 2010 to 2012 due to sponsorship reasons with Philippines AirAsia, were a professional basketball team that played in the ASEAN Basketball League. It was the first team from t ...

in the Asean Basketball League from 2009 to 2010 before being drafted 16th overall in the second round of the

2010 PBA draft The 2010 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Basketball Association Draft, rookie draft was an event held at Market! Market! in Taguig on August 29, 2010 that allowed PBA teams to Draft (sports), draft players from the amateur ran ...

by PBA expansion team

Meralco Bolts The Meralco Bolts is a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team began in 2010 after the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) acquired the PBA franchise of the Sta. Lucia Realtors. The team is one of thre ...

PBA career statistics

Season-by-season averages

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Meralco The Manila Electric Company, also known as Meralco (, , stylized in uppercase), is an electric power distribution company in the Philippines. It is Metro Manila's only electric power distributor and holds the power distribution franchise for 3 ...

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* 1986 births Living people Filipino men's basketball players Filipino people of Indian descent UST Growling Tigers basketball players Philippine Patriots players Meralco Bolts draft picks Meralco Bolts players Air21 Express players Imus Braderhood players GenSan Warriors players Small forwards 21st-century Filipino sportsmen {{Philippines-basketball-bio-stub