No. 10–Al Ahly Ly | ||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Shooting guard / point guard | |||||||||||||||||
League | BAL | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cocody, Ivory Coast | 21 July 1987|||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Ivorian / French | |||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 167 lb (76 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
Career information | ||||||||||||||||||
NBA draft | 2009: undrafted | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2006–present | |||||||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||||||
2006–2009 | JDA Dijon | |||||||||||||||||
2009–2012 | Chorale Roanne | |||||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | SLUC Nancy | |||||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | BCM Gravelines | |||||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Rouen Métropole | |||||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | MZT Skopje | |||||||||||||||||
2017 | Champagne Châlons-Reims | |||||||||||||||||
2017 | Fujian Lightning | |||||||||||||||||
2018 | Levickí Patrioti | |||||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | SLUC Nancy | |||||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | Fos Provence Basket | |||||||||||||||||
2021 | Zamalek | |||||||||||||||||
2021–2022 | Smouha | |||||||||||||||||
2021 | →Al Ittihad | |||||||||||||||||
2022 | US Monastir | |||||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | Petro de Luanda | |||||||||||||||||
2023–present | Al Ahly Ly | |||||||||||||||||
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Mouloukou Souleyman Diabate (born 21 July 1987), commonly known as Solo Diabate, is an Ivorian basketball player for Al Ahly Benghazi of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). After playing a decade in France and some years in North Macedonia, China and Slovakia, Diabate began his career at the African continent in 2021. He is a two-time BAL champion, with Zamalek in 2021 and US Monastir in 2022.
He also represents the Ivory Coast national team. With Ivory Coast, Diabate has won two silver medals at AfroBasket tournaments in 2009 and 2021.
Diabate has played in the French League since 2006. In his career, he played for JDA Dijon Basket, Chorale Roanne Basket, SLUC Nancy Basket, and BCM Gravelines. In 2015, he signed with Rouen Métropole. In the 2015-2016 season, Diabate was the league's assist leader with 6.5 per game to go with his 10.4 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.
On February 16, 2017, Diabate signed with the French team Châlons-Reims, after starting the season with MZT Skopje. [1]
On 4 November 2016, he signed with MZT Skopje Aerodrom. [2] [3] On 13 January 2017, he left MZT Skopje [4] On September 11, 2018, he signed with SLUC Nancy. [5]
In August 2021, Diabate signed with Egyptian club Zamalek to play in the 2021 BAL season. [6] He helped Zamalek win the first first-ever championship of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) after winning the finals. [7]
In August 2021, Diabate signed with Smouha to stay in Egypt. On 28 September 2021, Diabate was loaned to Al Ittihad to play in the 2021 Arab Club Basketball Championship. [8] At Ittihad, he replaced the injured Corey Webster. [9]
On 10 February 2022, Diabate signed with US Monastir ahead of the 2022 BAL season. [10] He helped Monastir win the championships by winning the 2022 BAL Finals. Diabate became the first player ever to win two BAL championships. [11]
In September 2022, Diabate signed a contract for Petro de Luanda in Angola to play in both the Angolan League and BAL. [12] He won the 2023 Angolan Cup with the team, [13] as well as the Angolan Basketball League title. [14]
Diabate joined Libyan club Al Ahly Benghazi for the 2024 BAL qualification tournaments. On 1 November 2023, Diabate made his debut and recorded 13 points and 9 assists in Al Ahly's 86–77 win over FAP. [15] Diabate helped Al Ahly succesfully qualify for their first ever BAL season, which began in April. They reached the finals, in which Diabate scored 20 points but lost to his former team Petro de Luanda, thus missing out on his third championship. [16] He posted BAL career-highs in points (11.3), rebounds (4.7), assists (5.8), steals (1.8) and blocks (0.4), [17] and was named to the BAL All-Defensive First Team after the season. [18]
Diabate was a member of the Ivory Coast national basketball team at the 2007 and 2009 FIBA Africa Championship. [19] In 2009, he helped the team to a surprise silver medal to qualify for the country's first FIBA World Championship in 24 years. On 19 June 2015, Diabate was one of 27 players to be named to the Ivory Coast's preliminary squad for the 2015 Africa Championship by head coach Hugues Occansey. [20]
Diabate played with Ivory Coast at AfroBasket 2021 in Rwanda and got his second silver medal.
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
† | Won an BAL championship | * | Led the league |
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2021† | Zamalek | 5 | 0 | 18.1 | .439 | .591* | .750 | 1.6 | 4.6 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 10.4 |
2022† | Monastir | 6 | 3 | 25.3 | .339 | .190 | .889 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 8.3 |
2023 | Petro de Luanda | 8 | 0 | 21.0 | .400 | .333 | 1.000 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 7.1 |
2024 | Al Ahly Ly | 10 | 2 | 32.0 | .495 | .304 | .842 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 1.8 | 0.4 | 11.3 |
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