Omar Abada
Al Ahly
PositionPoint guard
LeagueBasketball Africa League
Personal information
Born (1993-04-20) 20 April 1993
Tunis, Tunisia
NationalityTunisian
Listed height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Career information
Playing career2010–present
Career history
2010–2018Étoile de Radès
2018–2019Saint-Chamond
2019–2021US Monastir
2021–2022Al-Ittihad Jeddah
2022–2023Al Wahda Damascus
2023-presentAl Ahly
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing  Tunisia
AfroBasket
Gold medal – first place2017 Tunisia/Senegal
Gold medal – first place2021 Rwanda
Bronze medal – third place2015 Tunisia

Omar Abada (Arabic: عمر عبادة, born 20 April 1993) is a Tunisian professional basketball player who plays for Al Ahly since 2023. Abada also plays for the Tunisia national basketball team.

Born in Tunis, he started his career in 2010 with Étoile de Radès where he stayed for eight seasons. In 2018, Abada played a year in France for Saint-Chamond. A year later, he returned to Tunisia to play for US Monastir.

With Tunisia, he has won the AfroBasket tournament in 2017 and 2021, while being named to the All-Tournament Team in 2021.

Professional career

Abada started his career with Étoile de Radès in the Tunisian Championnat National A and helped the team win two national championships. In the 2017 FIBA Africa Champions Cup he was named to the All-Star Team.

In the 2018–19 season, Abada played one season in France for Saint-Chamond of the LNB Pro B, the national second tier.[1]

In 2019, he returned to Tunisia to play for US Monastir. He played in the inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) with Monastir and helped his team reach the Finals. After the tournament, he was named to the All-BAL First Team.[2]

On January 16, 2022, Abada was announced by Zamalek to be on the roster for the 2022 FIBA Intercontinental Cup.[3] However, he never joined the team or played in any game.

In April 2022, Abada joined the Syrian club Al Wahda Damascus of the Syrian Basketball League. [4]

In May 2023, Abada signed for ABC Fighters to play in the 2023 BAL Playoffs.[5] In the quarter-finals, he scored 21 points against Petro de Luanda but could not save the Fighters from being eliminated after a narrow 88–86 defeat.

Abada joined Al Ahly in August 2023.[6]

National team career

Abada has represented Tunisia's national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA Africa Championship in Radès, Tunisia. There, he recorded his team's best two point field goal percentage.[7] At AfroBasket 2017 and AfroBasket 2021, he won gold.

BAL career statistics

Legend
  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
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2021 Monastir 6627.6.400.312.7083.25.22.0.311.0
2023 ABC Fighters 1132.4.538.000.8752.08.02.0.021.0

Awards and accomplishments

Club

US Monastir
ES Radès

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Basket - Pro B. Omar Abada, le pari de Saint-Chamond". Le Progrès (in French). Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "The BAL". Twitter. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "محترفين الزمالك في بطولة العالم للأندية في كرة السلة". Zamalek Sports Hall. 16 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Al Wahda tabs Omar Abada". Afrobasket.com. 18 April 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "Playoffs rosters confirmed – Who are the new signings heading to Kigali?". The BAL. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  6. ↑ Addasi, Abdul Hamid (11 August 2023). "Omar Abada (ex ABC) is newcomer at Al Ahly for the Arab Tournament". Afrobasket. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  7. ↑ 2015 FIBA Africa Championship – Omar Abada's profile, FIBA.com, accessed 11 Feb 2016.
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