Ameen Khosravian

Ameen Khosravian
Personal information
Born	(1989-02-06) February 6, 1989 (age 35) Los Angeles, California
Nationality	Iranian / American
Listed height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight	160 lb (73 kg)
Career information
High school	Oakland Mills (Columbia, Maryland)
College	None
NBA draft	2012: undrafted
Playing career	2013–present
Position	Point guard / shooting guard
Career history
2013	Team Kiev (ESL)
2014	Zob Ahan Isfahan BC*
2014–2015	Columbia All Stars (EBA)
2015	Mahram Tehran BC*
2015–2016	Baltimore Hawks (ABA)
2016	Team Rome (ESL)
2017	Azad University Tehran BC*
2018	Rio de Janeiro (ESL)
2019	Petrochimi Bandar Imam BC*
2019	Iranian National Team (Camp)
2020	Armenia (Euro-tour)

Ameen Khosravian (Persian: امین خسرویان born 6 February 1989) is an Iranian American professional basketball player and founder of Pirouzi Athletics.^{[citation needed]}

Ameen is the first Middle Eastern to play professional basketball on any level in the U.S., and abroad without AAU, Private School, and Collegiate experience. He is also the first American-born Iranian in the ABA, the first Iranian in Baltimore basketball history, and the first American-born Iranian in Iranian-Super League history.

Additionally, Ameen is his extended family's first basketball player and professional athlete. His parents immigrated to the U.S shortly after the Iranian Revolution during the early stages of the Iran-Iraq war. His father, Ali, was in the military, and his mother, Simin, was a housewife. A majority of his family lives in Iran.

He was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Maryland. He founded Pirouzi Athletics in 2019 in Baltimore, MD.

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