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Undrafted by the nba, owumi pursued his basketball dream overseas, eventually. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read qaddafis point guard. And so, in a bizarre, storybook ending, owumi finished the year by helping lead the team to an unlikely league championship, earning league mvp honors in the process. Born in nigeria, where he began shooting hoops into a milk crate nailed to a tree at age 6, owumi came to the united states with his parents at age 11. Unclaimed in the 2008 nba draft, he followed his dream of playing. Alexander owumi born may 4, 1984 is a nigerianamerican professional basketball player. Hidden empire film group has acquired screen rights to alex owumis 20 autobiography qaddafis point guard. Battalion in zintan to guard the zrri and mr alatiri was appointed as its.
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