Listed height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Playing career Weight 80 kg | Listed weight 80 kg (176 lb) Height 1.83 m Position Shooting guard | |
League Lebanese Basketball League 2014–2015 Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut | ||
Mark ghafari breaks kalamazoo college basketball scoring record with 46 points
Mark Ghafari (born December 10, 1991 in Grosse Pointe, MI) is a Lebanese American professional basketball player who previously played for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut in the Lebanese Basketball League.
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Professional career
He started his professional career in 2014 after he played a season for Kalamazoo College in the NCAA Division 3 Tournament. Earlier in 2013, Ghafari travelled to Lebanon to perform a medical for Al Riyadi whereupon he was signed for three years. Ghafari was the stand out for Kalamazoo scoring 46 points in a game breaking the college record of points scored in a game. Ghafari was also a two time Academic All-American for the Kalamazoo college basketball program. He has since retired from professional basketball and now lives happily in Michigan. His latest great accomplishment in August 2016 was convincing a brilliant and beautiful future physician to accept his marriage proposal and agree to marry him - impending nuptials set for summer 2018.