YouTube Gold: Alaa Abdelnaby On His Time At Duke

NEW YORK -1993: Alaa Abdelnaby #4 of the Boston Celtics looks on during a game against the New York Knicks in 1993 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.Alaa Abdelnaby was an unusual Blue Devil.

First, he is almost certainly the only Egyptian to ever play in the ACC and if he’s not, then he’s surely the only native of Alexandria to play in the conference (Egypt, not Virginia).

Second, when he got to Duke, he was obviously talented, but he was strikingly immature. That’s not so unusual. Lots of college freshmen are immature. But he was clearly immature and took a while to grow up.

He also partied pretty heavily. It’s again not unusual for a college player to party; it is a bit…