Al Hilla inks Ahmad Gilbert

- August 2, 2023

POSTED BY: Dimitri Chelidze

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Ahmad Gilbert

Al Hilla (Superleague) agreed terms with 27-year-old American forward Ahmad Gilbert (200cm-98kg-1996, college: St.Thomas, FL) for the new 2023-24 season. Gilbert played this summer at Big 5 (The Basketball Tournament) in the U.S. He managed to play in three leagues in two countries last year. In only one TBT game just recently he recorded 14 points and 1 rebound. Gilbert ended the 22-23 season at Stjarnan in Icelandic Subway League. But in only one game he did not score anything and had only 1 rebound and 2 steals. But the most of that year he spent at Hrunamenn in Icelandic D1 where in 27 games he was the best scorer with an impressive 31.9ppg and averaged 12.4rpg (#2 in the league), 5.4apg and 2.8spg (leader !!!). He helped them to make it to the cup final. Good season as he was named League Player of the Week (5 times).

Gilbert has played previously professionally in Finland (Raiders Basket) and TBL (Tri-State Admirals).

His list of past achievements is quite long as among others he played in the final of the TSC Tournament in 2020. He was voted to Eurobasket.com All-Finnish 1st Division A Honorable Mention in 2022.

Gilbert graduated from Saint Thomas University in 2020 and it will be his fourth season as a professional player. He played also for Rider University for 2 years.