There’s some other black athletes who converted. I can’t think of any who were born to Muslim parents and were raised in that religion.
Olajuwan of the NBA was born in Nigeria as a muslim. But I agree, almost all muslims in professional sports converted, and most to “The Nation of Islam”, not actual Islam, which is an entirely different critter. Malcolm X was assassinated by The Nation of Islam because he became an actual muslim and started following the Sunni faith.
Farrakhan has his followers read Dianetics and has The Church of Scientology “audit” them, for crying out loud.
“There’s some other black athletes who converted. I can’t think of any who were born to Muslim parents and were raised in that religion.”
Ahmad Rashad. Wasn’t he a wide receiver in the NFL? Think he was married to Cosby’s TV wife.