Hamidou Diallo is an American professional basketball player who plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As of 2019, Hamidou Diallo currently plays for the Oklahoma City Thunders as their Shooting Guard.
As a Shooting Guard, Hamidou Diallo reportedly earns around $838,464 as his yearly salary from Oklahoma City Thunders in the 2018-19 season and has an estimated net worth around $1 million.
As of 2019, Hamidou Diallo has an estimated net worth of around $1 million. He reportedly signed a two-year contract worth $2,255,316 with Oklahoma City Thunders.
Further, the NBA player has an average salary of $1,127,658 annually with a guaranteed sum of $2,255,316. Diallo will have an $838,464 cap hit and a $2,255,316 dead cap in 2018-19.
Diallo so far has made earnings of $838,464 from his entire NBA career. Kept aside Hamidou Diallo financial earnings, his personal assets includes home and cars. Steven Adams, Paul George, Russel Westbrook are the highest-paid players of Oklahoma City Thunders.
Further, the NBA Player Diallo earns a good amount of money from various sponsorships.
The Famous NBA star is 6 feet 5 inches tall in height and weighs around 90 kg. Diallo is not only a world-class athlete but also a very attractive individual.
Other than being a famous NBA Shooting Guard, Hamidou Diallo is pretty famous in social media with an enormous number of followers. Moreover, he has 203 k followers on Instagram and 46.3 k on his Twitter account.
There is no information about his relationship and affair. In addition, he seems to concentrate on building a career and keeps his romantic relationship hidden from the public. During his career, Adebayo was always supported by his family.
Hamidou Diallo was born on July 31, 1998, in Queens, New York to parents Abdoulaye Diallo and Marima Diallo. As per his nationality, he is American and belongs to the Afro-American ethnic group. Further, his star sign is Leo. Diallo spent his childhood with his younger brother and sister.
Hamidou Diallo attended Josh Bowne in Flushing, New York where he played for his high school basketball team. Hamidou, in his high school career, held an average of 17.1 points and 6.6 rebounds as a junior. Later on, he joined Putnam Science Academy, Putnam, Connecticut, averaging 17.0 points and 4.0 rebounds.
Hamidou was among the top players in the recruiting class of Scout.com, Rivals.com, and ESPN in 2017. He was heavily recruited by six schools, Kentucky University, Arizona University, Indiana University, Kansas University, Syracuse University, and Connecticut University.
College Statistics:
Year | Team | Games played | Games started | Minutes per game | Rebounds per game | Assists per game | Steals per game | Blocks per game | Points per game |
2017-18 | Kentucky | 37 | 37 | 24.8 | 3.6 | 1.2 | .8 | .4 | 10.0 |
After completing high school, Diallo enrolled at the University of Kentucky and played for it. Diallo scored 18 points, 3 assists and 5 rebounds on 10 November 2017 to defeat Utah Valley and scored 16 points on November 12 and 3 assists in a 73-69 win over Vermont.
Hamidou was selected by the Brooklyn Nets with the 45th pick in the 2018 NBA draft on 21 June 2018. Afterward, his draft rights were traded to the Charlotte Hornets and then to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Oklahoma City of Thunder announced on 28 July 2018 that it had signed with Hamidou. He debuted in NBA on 16 October 2018 with a loss of 100–108 to the Golden State Warriors with four points, a rebound, an assist, and a steal.
Hamidou scored 18 points in his career with two steals, a rebound and a loss of 113–117 to the Kings on 19 November 2018.
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Hamidou competed for the U.S. National Basketball Team under 18, which won gold in the 2016 FIBA Americas Under 18 Championship game. In the 2017 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Egypt, he won bronze.