5 Questions With Alaa Abdelnaby

6' 10" Center Dominated the Hardwood for the Bengals in the Mid-80s

When I introduced myself to 44-year-old Alaa Abdelnaby at a local bookstore, he asked, “How did you know me?” How?! He’s quite possibly, at 6’ 10”, the tallest man in the area, and any Bloomfield basketball fan would recognize perhaps the greatest center ever to grace the Bengal hardwood. I also told the Egyptian-born Abdelnaby that I often relive the play in the 1986 Essex County Tournamant semifinals when he jumped from the foul line and rammed a thunderous jam home against the heavily favored Montclair Mounties. “Wow, you remember that?” Of course. Bloomfield won the game in an upset, and that moment is etched in many a memory. Alaa Abdelnaby scored well over 1,000 points in two full varsity seasons at Bloomfield, and then went on to …

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