Know Your Team: Mamadou Gueye
Halifax Hurricanes
6’7
Forward
From Edmonton, Alberta
His basketball career so far may be short, but Mamadou Gueye has packed a lot into that time and seems to always rise to the challenge when representing and playing in his native Canada.
Gueye played at USports level for the Alberta Golden Bears, averaging 16.9 points and 7.3 rebounds per contest in his first year. His efforts here earned him a spot on the Canadian team at the 2015 University Games. Canada reached the quarter-finals to Germany, eventually securing seventh place after a final 91-65 win over Estonia.
Continuing his Golden Bears career, as a senior Gueye made the All-Canada West second-team while leading Alberta to a conference-best 19-1 record and to the Championship final, where the team lost to Calgary.
After graduating from Albera, he saw two separate successes with Canadian national outfits - first winning the Commonwealth Games silver medal and then, as part of the 3D Global Sports team, claimed the William Jones Cup in Taiwan.
2018 saw him play for his first professional team, Schalke in the German second division, finishing on 7.5 points and 4.0 rebounds per contest. Part-way through the NBL Canada season he joined the Sudbury Five - and did not take him long to make an impact, as he was named player of the week days after making his league debut.
He finished his first NBLC season having averaged 11.0 points and 5.2 rebounds in nineteen appearances for Sudbury. In the off-season he joined the Edmonton Stingers in the CEBL, playing twenty games and starting in fourteen. He had a career-best 11.9 points per game as Edmonton finished second in the league.
Staying in Canada, Gueye joined the Halifax Hurricanes in 2020, putting up a double-digit performance in his first outing and going on to record two twenty-point showings in the first part of the season.
He may have arrived to the NBL Canada with little fanfare, but Mamadou Gueye is proving to be something of an unsung hero. Always making the most of his time in possession, he seems to be on a continuing trend of seeing his skills and stock in the game of basketball rise.
