Muslim Basketball

Sabra takes the first spot, I see that they scored 82 which is insane, however, a big chunk of points is missing from their stats. However, I'm assuming our friend Kai is the reason why they blew the other team out. This team is equipped with two giants, the league better watch out.

In the second spot is the Bethlehem squad, Featuring Big Bro AHMAD!! If Ahmad plays how he played last game, maybe he just cleaned his 3pt%, then this team will be a problem. Hassan, Mahdy, Gubs, and now Jojo?! Would not be surprised to see this team up in the first seed a couple of weeks from now.

Gaza has a newcomer by the name of Michael, and that man can hoop. Dropped 30 while shooting 65% from the field… This team has two bigs, a guard who in my opinion will be the league's MVP this season, and another guard puller by the name of Afay, this team is nothing short of stacked. With the big 3 Afay, Farhad, and Michael, nearly impossible to not have this team in the 3rd spot.

Our fourth spot comes to Lod, this team is nothing short of talent. They got charkas and as if one wasn’t enough they got another. They also have two newcomers, Moatez and Nabil, both who played a very good efficient first game. The Patel brothers and Mo Rayyan, their five is tough, and their bench is better than most of the leagues. Very excited to see how this team performs against the top teams in the league.

The fifth seed is Haifa, Haifa is also a stacked team, they got AbdelHadi, they got Najib, and they have a new player Elijah Bland who seems like a bucket. Very tough win this team got last week, seems like they performed better in the second half rather than the first. This team has size, shooters, and good ball movement from what we saw.

The YM squad comes back together, only this time we see the return of Affan. The three have great chemistry, they have good scorers, the only thing that is lacking on this team is a big one. They do have Ahmad Abid, don’t know where on earth he was last game, but he left his team alone and they got outrebounded. They played an amazing first half but did end up slowing up in the second. Regardless tough team and we love a good underdog story.

Jenin is on our 7th seed, Team has got talent. They have a new guy named Adam F who I’m curious to watch next week, they got Jared, Sohaib, and Zain. Nothing else really to add, congrats on your 7th seed.

8th is none other than Qibya, AKA the North Bergen squad. This squad is the definition of underdogs, Omar H had an amazing first game, 60% from the field and he looks comfortable playing with his boys. Nader also being the most efficient player on this team helps a lot. Although he had 8, it feels like he dropped 15, the points he scores are always the big-time points. Shoutout to the dogs on this team and Ali M…..

Yaffa comes in at the 9th seed, the former champions ranking this low? Don’t know what happened but it's just the first week. Didn’t get to see the new player Niko play, however his stats don’t really say much. Looks like Jay had to be the one to carry the boats and logs. Good to see Yahya contributing, more efficiency from Big Moose, and this game would have been theirs. Their game did go to double OT, and I hate the double OT rules, but rules are rules, hate to have Yaffa this low.

Al-Bireh, I mean should be haram for them to be this low. The new player Nick is going to be a problem for this league, This dude can shoooooot. He is a very exciting player to watch, this team was up 14 entering the half, but got outscored by nearly 20 in the second half…. Don’t know what these Lebanese boys were thinking, but shooting def was not on their minds. It's too early in the season to overanalyze, just going to wait next week and see if they sell the bag.

Ramla, AKA last season's choke artists. In all seriousness this team got talent. Mana at the big, and Moayad is back showing signs of his old self. We got khaled and Elias, both capable of dropping 10-15+. And they got two newcomers, moad Aglaguel who from what I’ve heard is an absolute problem, and mohamad eladl who is a really good rookie. This team shouldn’t be this low, don’t expect them to stay down this low for too long.

Areeha is the 12th spot, this team is also pretty solid, they got mahrooz and singer, following is ameer ihsan and of course most improved player salman ilyas. This team is nice, they have chemistry as singer mahrooz ameer and al play with each other in central, so I see them improving throughout the season. Not gonna say much as it’s to early in the season, but hope to see how this team works out next few weeks.

Isdud is a solid team, with the return of Muj curious to see how he is playing after his injury. Arguably one of the best hoopers in Muslim ball prior to his injury paired up with ali Hassan, insanely strapped guard who can shoot and finish. They also have a newcomer named Andrew who helped carry the load from ali. This team needs some help, if Muj sits out, can’t be just ali and Andrew scoring. This team has chemistry to workout.

Jerusalem has ali sufian and Omar abbasi, that’s it…. Don’t see this team winning at all

Yazur seems like a good team, just don’t know them enough to say anything. Shoutout atef, he’s a hooper. The rest of his team, help out.

Nablus, turmusaya squad and a few others. Heard they traded for Muhanad, let’s see if he helps out.