Mustafa Shakur

Former Arizona University Wildcat Mustafa Shakur has taken a highly unusual route to the NBA. After playing for the Wildcats from 2002 through 2007, he went undrafted and found himself eventually in a Sacramento Kings summer league. Shakur spent the next two years in Europe before returning to the NBA D League and suiting up for the Tulsa 66ers. On March 17th, 2010, Shakur was finally called up to the ranks of the Oklahoma City Thunder, who released another 2009-2010 D League standout, Antoine Anderson, to make room on the team for Shakur.http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/03/17/thunder-call-up-mustafa-shakur-from-d-league/<ref>

Before being called up from the D League by the Thunder, Shakur was averaging averaging 20.4 points, 7.2 assists, and 4.6 rebounds per game with the Tulsa 66ers. Rated by many as the best point guard in the D League for the 2009-2010 season, the 6-3 190-pound guard was promoted by the Thunder for expected use as a defensive specialist. Shakur played in a pair of 2009-2010 pre-season NBA games for the Minnesota Timberwolves. On October 4th, he scored five points in a game against the Milwaukee Bucks and later went scoreless during an October 14th contest versus the Chicago Bulls.http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/index.jsp?player=mustafa_shakur<ref><ref>http://www.nba.com/playerfile/mustafa_shakur/index.html<ref>

After going undrafted by the NBA in 2007, Shakur ventured to the European continent for some professional basketball league experience. He played first with Prokom Trefl Sopot of the Polish League (2007-08), followed by 2008-2009 stints with Tau Cerámica of the ACB Spanish League and Panelinos BC of the Greek A1 League.http://www.dailythunder.com/2010/03/mustafa-shakur-signed-to-10-day-contract-anderson-released/<ref>