Malick Badiane
| Free agent | |
|---|---|
| Position | Forward / Center |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
January 1, 1984 Dakar, Senegal |
| Nationality | Senegalese |
| Listed height | 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) |
| Listed weight | 240 lb (110 kg) |
| Career information | |
| NBA draft | 2003 / Round: 2 / Pick: 44th overall |
| Selected by the Houston Rockets | |
| Playing career | 2000–present |
| Career history | |
| 2002–2002 | US Rail |
| 2002–2003 | TV Langen |
| 2003–2006 | Skyliners Frankfurt |
| 2006–2007 | Artland Dragons |
| 2007 | JDA Dijon |
| 2007–2008 | Saint-Vallier Basket Drôme |
| 2008 | Dongguan Leopards |
| 2009 | Anaheim Arsenal |
| 2009–2010 | JSF Nanterre |
| 2010–2011 | Boulazac Basket Dordogne |
| 2011 | Olympique Antibes |
| 2011–2012 | Hermine de Nantes Atlantique |
| 2012 | Saint-Quentin Basket-Ball |
| 2013–2014 | Union Basket Chartres Métropole |
Malick Badiane (born January 1, 1984) is a Senegalese professional basketball player. He plays mainly as a center, but he can also play at the power forward position. He is 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) in height.
Badiane started his career playing for the US Rail Thies team in Senegal in the 2000-01 season. He emerged on the American basketball scene after an impressive showing at the ABCD Camp in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. There, he shined despite getting limited touches, emerging as one of the camp's top 30 players.
Badiane, then eighteen years old, signed with TV Langen in the German second division (acting as a farm team for the Opel Skyliners, in the German top level), and averaged 11.7 points and 8.9 rebounds per game during the 2002-03 season, making an immediate impact. He turned in a pair of 27-point performances and observers of the league believed that he blocked an average of two shots per game (blocks were not kept as an official statistic in the league).
Badiane then spent the next three years with the Skyliners, moving to another side in the league, the Artland Dragons, for the 2006-07 season. He would spend the 2007-08 season with JDA Dijon in the French Pro A league.
Although projected as a mid-to-late first round pick in the 2003 NBA Draft and the next big center from Senegal, Badiane was not taken until late in the second round with the 44th pick by the Houston Rockets. He would only appear (twice) in Summer League play for the Rockets.
Then general manager of the Rockets Carroll Dawson said in 2007 that Badiane was an intriguing prospect and that the Rockets still did intend to bring him to the NBA at some future point, after he had continued to develop his game and skills in Europe. Dawson claimed that Badiane still had value to the Rockets because at 6'11" and 240 pounds, he had a 7'4" wingspan, a 32" vertical leap, and was seen as a solid defensive and rebounding talent, playing both interior positions. Dawson also stated that Badiane "...is still very raw and still needs several years of skill development."
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