Samba Faye

{{short description|Senegalese-born Japanese basketball player}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| image = Sambasr.jpg

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| position = Center

| name = Samba Faye

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 9

| weight_lb = 231

| team = Tryhoop Okayama

| league = B.League

| number = 1

| nationality = Japanese

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|4|25|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Thiès, Senegal

| high_school = Meitoku Gijuku (Susaki, Kōchi)

| college =

| draft_year =

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| career_start = 2011

| career_end =

| years1 = 2011–2013

| team1 = Toshiba Brave Thunders Kanagawa

| years2 = 2013–2014

| team2 = Tokio Marine Nichido Big Blue

| years3 = 2014

| team3 = Toshiba Brave Thunders Kanagawa

| years4 = 2015–2016

| team4 = Toyotsu Fighting Eagles Nagoya

| years5 = 2016–2018

| team5 = Shiga Lakestars

| years6 = 2018–2020

| team6 = Sun Rockers Shibuya

| years7 = 2020–2022

| team7 = Kumamoto Volters

| years8 = 2022–2023

| team8 = Toyama Grouses

| years9 = 2023–2024

| team9 = Earthfriends Tokyo Z

| years10 = 2024–present

| team10 = Tryhoop Okayama

| highlights =*NBDL Scoring leader (2013-14)

}}

Samba Faye (born April 25, 1987), is a Senegal-born Japanese professional basketball player for the Tryhoop Okayama of the Japanese B.League.{{cite web |last=Shiga Lakestars |first= |url=https://lakestars.net/roster/samba_faye.html |title=ファイ サンバSamba Faye|date=2 February 2018 |accessdate=9 February 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.volters.jp/news/detail/id=13376|title=ファイ サンバ選手 2020-21シーズン選手契約(新規)のお知らせ|website=熊本ヴォルターズ}}

Career statistics

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|Led the league

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|-

| align="left" | 2012-13

| align="left" | Toshiba

| 6|| || 4.8|| .500|| .000|| .333|| 1.2|| 0.5|| 0.2|| 0|| 2.3

|-

| align="left" | 2013-14

| align="left" | Tokio M

| 32||31 || 34.1|| .434|| .326|| .743|| 12.8|| 1.6|| 0.7|| 0.7||bgcolor="CFECEC"| 24.5*

|-

| align="left" | 2014-15

| align="left" | Toshiba

| 10|| 0|| 9.8|| .423|| .000|| .750|| 2.2|| 0.3|| 0|| 0.1|| 2.5

|-

| align="left" | 2014-15

| align="left" | Toyotsu

| 12||10 || 24.9|| .524|| .200|| .759|| 12.0|| 1.4|| 0.3|| 0.3|| 12.8

|-

| align="left" | 2015-16

| align="left" | Toyotsu

| 32||21 || 19.1|| .511|| .295|| .722|| 7.6|| 0.8|| 0.4|| 0.6|| 11.8

|-

| align="left" | 2016-17

| align="left" | Shiga

| 58||33 || 18.6|| .544|| .200|| .740|| 5.6|| 0.4|| 0.2|| 0.3|| 8.2

|-

| align="left" | 2017-18

| align="left" | Shiga

| 54 || 49 || 21.4 || .543 ||.333 ||.719 ||4.4 ||1.3 || 0.5 ||0.3 || 9.1

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