Mustafa Shakur

Mustafadeen Abdush-Shakur (born August 18, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats and has previously played professionally in Europe, Lebanon, the NBA D-League and the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Shakur attended William Penn High School in Philadelphia as a sophomore in 2000–01, before transferring to Friends' Central School for his junior year. As a junior in 2001–02, he averaged 18.8 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game to lead Friends' Central to the Friends League title. He also earned first team all-state and all-Friends kudos, while claiming second-team all-city and all-public honors.

On November 13, 2002, he signed a National Letter of Intent to play college basketball for the University of Arizona.

As a senior in 2002–03, he averaged 26.8 points, 6.8 assists and 4.1 steals per game while earning USA Today High School Boys all-USA first team, EA Sports All-America, ABCD Camp All-Star and first-team all-state honors. He also earned Gatorade Pennsylvania Player of the Year and McDonald's All-American honors.

In his freshman season at Arizona, Shakur was named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team. In 30 games, he averaged 9.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.

In his sophomore season, he was a member of the preseason Naismith Award watch list, and went on to average 8.1 points, 3.6 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.2 steals in 37 games.

In his junior season, he was the only Wildcat to start every game as he ended the season with 455 career assists, a figure that is tied for ninth on the UA career list. In 33 games, he averaged 11.2 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game.

On April 12, 2006, he declared for the NBA draft, but later withdrew his name from consideration on June 18, 2006.