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Naji Marshall

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ناجي مارشال

American basketball forward (born 1998) from Atlantic City, New Jersey, who starred at Xavier, went undrafted in 2020, and built an NBA career with New Orleans (2020–2024) and Dallas; of his faith he states in his own words: 'I'm a Christian.'

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Roles
basketball player
Region
Americas & Oceania
Identifiers
Wikidata

Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Rahman Badawi · Abd al-Rahman Siwar al-Dhahab · Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Place in the story

    Christian (self-identified)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1998

    Sources

    • Naji Marshall — English Wikipedia
    • Naji Marshall — Wikidata
    • Naji Marshall — EssentiallySports on his ethnicity and religion, 2024
    • Naji Marshall — PlayersBio biography
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Naji Marshall”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/naji-marshall/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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