Michel Diouf

Senegalese basketball player

Michel Diouf
No. 11 – Bakken Bears
Diouf with Bakken Bears in 2021
Position	Center
League	Basketligaen
Personal information
Born	(1989-04-19) 19 April 1989 (age 35) Medina Gounass, Senegal
Nationality	Senegalese
Listed height	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)
Listed weight	102 kg (225 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	2011: undrafted
Playing career	2007–present
Career history
2007–2009	CB Qalat
2009–2011	CB Tarragona
2011–2012	Palencia
2012	Fuenlabrada
2012–2014	Breogán
2014–2015	Miraflores Burgos
2015–present	Bakken Bears

Career highlights and awards
FIBA Europe Cup all-time leading scorer FIBA Europe Cup all-time rebounding leader FIBA Europe Cup all-time blocks leader 7× Basketligaen champion (2017–2023) Basketligaen Finals MVP (2021) 4× Basketligaen Defender of the Year (2016, 2018–2020) 5× Danish Cup champion (2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023)

Michel Diogoye Diouf (born 19 April 1989) is a Senegalese basketball player for Bakken Bears and Senegal.^[1] Diouf is a four-time winner of the Basketligaen Defender of the Year award.^[2] He is the current all-time leader in points, rebounds and blocks in the FIBA Europe Cup.^[3]

Career

In the 2020–21 season, Diouf won his fifth Basketligaen championship with Bakken Bears and was named the Finals MVP.^[4] On 21 March 2022, Diouf became the all-time leading scorer of the FIBA Europe Cup in a quarterfinal game against Oradea. He surpassed Trae Golden's record of 789 total points.^[3]

Honours

Club

Bakken Bears

7× Basketligaen: (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Individual

4× Basketligaen Defender of the Year: (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020)^[2]
Basketligaen Finals MVP: (2021)^[5]

References

^ RealGM Profile
^ ^a ^b "Basketligaen Priser" (in Danish). Basketligaen.dk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Diouf overtakes Golden to become FIBA Europe Cup's all-time leading scorer". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^ "Coupe du Danemark : Bakken sacré grâce à Michel Diouf, MVP de la finale !". Basket 221 (in French). 11 February 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
^ "Bears dansk mester | Basketball | Bakken Bears Officielle Website" (in Danish). 27 May 2021. Retrieved 30 May 2021.

Bakken Bears current roster

1 Oriane
2 Pinckney
3 Parsons
5 Evans
6 Berg
7 Churchill
8 Jukić
9 Vinther
11 Diouf
12 Bowlin
15 Høj
18 Knudsen
24 Holst

Head coach: Sommer
Assistant coaches: Wedell
Hemmingsen

v t e Basketligaen Defender of the Year
2011 Iversen 2012 Henry 2013 Colas 2014 Hougaard Nielsen 2015 Keita 2016 Diouf 2017 Smith 2018 Diouf 2019 Diouf 2020 Diouf 2021 Ongwae 2022 Ongwae