Ehab Amin
Ehab Mohamed Mohamed Amin Saleh (born August 1, 1995) is an Egyptian professional basketball player for Al Ahly. He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. He spent his first three college seasons at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi, leading the NCAA Division I in steals and earning first-team All-Southland Conference accolades as a junior.
Amin in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Point guard / shooting guard | ||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Egyptian Basketball Super League | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | August 1, 1995 Alexandria, Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Egyptian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | SJNMA (Delafield, Wisconsin) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| NBA draft | 2019: undrafted | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2012–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012–2013 | Sporting Alexandria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–present | Al Ahly | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Amin has played for the Egypt national basketball team at both the youth and senior levels, including the under-16 team to a gold medal at the 2011 FIBA Africa Under-16 Championship. Amin received national attention in the United States when he flopped in a Sweet Sixteen game, leading a CBS reporter to call Amin "the worst of 2019 NCAA tournament."
He began his professional career with Al Ahly in Egypt as the best paid player in national basketball history. With Al Ahly, he won the BAL championship in 2023, three Egyptian Premier League titles and one Arab Club Competitions title.