The 35-year-old has enjoyed a professional career in basketball, moving around leagues in Britain, Qatar and Bahrain, where he was an international with Iraq before picking up caps for Jordan in rugby. Basketball has always been the sport he excelled at the most, representing Iraq and enjoying career highlights like being the team?s top scorer in the King Abdullah Championship in Jordan back in 2007. The 35-year-old?s move to American football actually came as a result of, if anything, being too good at basketball.