The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Guinea
This page contains a list of the greatest Guinean Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Guinea. This makes Guinea the birth place of the 83rd most number of Basketball Players behind Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guinean Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Guinean Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Sekou Doumbouya (b. 2000)
With an HPI of 33.73, Sekou Doumbouya is the most famous Guinean Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages on wikipedia.
Sekou Oumar Doumbouya (born 23 December 2000) is a French professional basketball player for Sagesse Club of the Lebanese Basketball League (LBL). He plays both the small forward and power forward positions. Born in Conakry, Guinea, Doumbouya grew up in Paris, France and began his career with local club CJF Les Aubrais when he was 13. In the following year, he attended INSEP and played for amateur team Centre Fédéral. His professional career started in 2016, when he joined Poitiers Basket 86 in the second-tier league of France, remaining with the team for two seasons. In 2018, Doumbouya moved to the first division by signing with Limoges CSP. After one season, he was selected by the Pistons with the fifteenth pick in the 2019 NBA draft. In his rookie season, he was the youngest active player in the NBA. Doumbouya is a member of the youth sections of the France national team. He helped France win the gold medal at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, finishing as his team's leading scorer.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Guinean basketball players born between 2000 and 2000. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Guinean basketball players include Sekou Doumbouya. As of April 2024, 1 new Guinean basketball players have been added to Pantheon including Sekou Doumbouya.
