Jahmar Young

Jahmar Young, born on 18 November 1986, is an American former professional basketball player. He attended W. E. B. Du Bois High School in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was rated among the better prep recruits in the country, and played college basketball at New Mexico State University. In his senior year he averaged 20.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game and he was named to the All-WAC first team in 2009 and 2010. He turned professional in 2010 with Crvena zvezda in Serbia and then played in Belgium, Latvia, France, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Croatia and Israel, with several spells at Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut and a return to Paris-Levallois. At Hapoel Haifa in the 2018-19 season he ranked among the league's leading scorers, averaging more than twenty-two points a game.