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Ali Noorzad

Afghan basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ23303281 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ali Noorzad (Persian: علی نورزاد; born 21 November 1985) is an Afghan international basketball player. He played college basketball for the Rutgers–Camden Scarlet Raptors during the 2010–11 season.

He represented Afghanistan's national basketball team at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, where he played the most minutes for his team.

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“Ali Noorzad” enters the record as afghan basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Noorzad, Afghan and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-10-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Noorzad, Afghan and basketball.
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“Ali Noorzad” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Noorzad, Afghan and basketball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23303281. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ali Noorzad” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.