Mouhammad Faye
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Mouhammad Faye is a Senegalese basketball
Basketball
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 player for the NBA D-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers
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The Rio Grande Valley Vipers are a 2007-08 expansion team in the NBA Development League. They play their home games at the State Farm Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas....

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Early life and high school

Faye was born to Demba and Mame Youmane Niang Faye. He is the youngest of five children; his oldest brother, Assane Faye, played basketball at the University of New Hampshire. Faye attended SEED Academy in Dakar, Senegal. In 2002 he was a member of the Senegalese under-18 national basketball team, and in 2004 he was a member of the under-20 national team.

College

Due to a delay in the translation of his transcripts, Faye sat out his first season and was cleared to begin practice with the team in the fall 2006 semester. He started his career as a redshirt freshman in the 2006–07 season, but his initial playing status was in question due to a wrist injury that he sustained in a pickup game over the summer. Faye became a starter when his teammate Lewis Clinch was supended for the remainder of the 2006-07 season on January 5, 2007. Faye was sidelined again on February 5, 2007 after struggling with flu-like symptoms, which coach Paul Hewitt
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 speculated may have been caused by mononucleosis
Infectious mononucleosis
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Pro career

Faye played for the Dallas Mavericks
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 in the NBA Summer League
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 in 2010
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He later signed with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers
Rio Grande Valley Vipers
The Rio Grande Valley Vipers are a 2007-08 expansion team in the NBA Development League. They play their home games at the State Farm Arena, in Hidalgo, Texas....

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