Rahsaan Smith
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Rahsaan Smith is a US-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 professional basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player. He is 2.08m (6'10") in height and he weighs 106kg (235 pounds). He plays the Center
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

 position. His last team was Galgos de Tijuana of the Mexican League
Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional
The Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional is the top professional basketball league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 11 teams, expanding to 24 as of 2008...

.

College career

After spending two years at Merritt College
Merritt College
Merritt College is a two-year community college located in the Oakland Hills in Alameda County, California. The school's enrollment is approximately 6,000 students. The college is named after physician Dr...

, Smith moved to Fresno State University in 1994 and stayed there three years.

Professional career

Besides playing professional basketball in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, Smith has played in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 (Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer Giants Leverkusen
Bayer Giants Leverkusen is a professional basketball club, part of the Bayer Leverkusen sports club based in Leverkusen, Germany. Based on the number of titles, Leverkusen is the most successful team in the history of German Basketball. In 2009, the Bayer company cut down sponsorship and the club...

), the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 (Yakima Sun Kings, Southern California Surf
Southern California Surf
The Southern California Surf was an American Basketball Association team based in Anaheim, California.The team began play in the 2001-2002 ABA season but is now defunct. It became the Long Beach Jam....

), Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 (CS Independiente de General Pico, Quilmes Mar del Plata
Quilmes Mar del Plata
Club Atlético Quilmes is a sports club based in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina...

), Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

 (Al-Ittihad
Al-Ittihad
Ittihad Football Club or Ittihad Jeddah or Al-Ittihad is a Saudi Arabian sports club based in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Officially formed in 1927, it is the oldest surviving club in Saudi Arabia, and one of the most popular and successful in Asia.-History:In 1927 a group of young men from...

) and Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 (Brok Czarni Slupsk).

Accomplishments

Besides winning the CBA title in 2000, Smith was named MVP of the Saudi Arabian league in 2001.
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