Here is all you need to know about basketball player Alexandre Sarr including his age, height, career, records and more
According to ESPN draft expert Jonathan Givony, Alex Sarr’s hip injury makes it “unlikely” that the Perth Wildcats Next Star will fall in the NBA draft rankings.
Who is basketball player Alexandre Sarr, bio, age, height, brother, salary and career stats
Sarr will have his hip strain treated after it occurred during the Adelaide 36ers game on December 28. This will happen before Perth’s game against the South East Melbourne Phoenix on Saturday night.
According to the Wildcats’ statement:
Sarr will be re-evaluated next week prior to our game on January 13 against the South East Melbourne Phoenix at RAC Arena, with a 2-3 week timeline for his return.”
Who is Alexandre Sarr?
French basketball player Alexandre Dam Sarr was born on April 26, 2005 in Bordeaux, France who plays professionally for the Perth Wildcats of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He plays centre and is 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 metres) tall.
A look at Alexandre Sarr’s career
At the age of four, he began playing basketball. Sarr became a member of Real Madrid in the year 2019. For the club’s cadet young squad, he played for two seasons.
Sarr relocated to Atlanta in 2021 to play for the newly formed Overtime Elite league, which offered him a guaranteed minimum income of at least $100,000 annually along with an alternate professional road.
Playing for Team Overtime in the first season and YNG Dreamerz in the second, he participated in two seasons at Overtime Elite. In 2022–2023 he was named to the All-OTE second team.
Sarr became a member of the Perth Wildcats of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) on May 9, 2023, when he signed a contract to become a member of the league’s Next Stars programme for the 2023–24 campaign.
He was sidelined for up to three weeks after sustaining a hip strain during a game against the Adelaide 36ers on December 28.
Alexandre Sarr, not the only basketball player in his family
Yes, Sarr is not the only one into basketball from his family. While his elder brother, Olivier, plays basketball for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA), his father, Massar, is a former Senegalese professional player.