Bobby Dixon

Bobby Dixon — Biography

Bobby Dixon, known in Turkey by his legal name Ali Muhammed, is a Chicago-born point guard. He won the Turkish League with Pınar Karşıyaka in 2015 and the EuroLeague with Fenerbahçe in 2016-17. He retired from playing in 2021 and works at Fenerbahçe as an individual development coach and youth-academy ambassador.

At Troy University he averaged 16.3 points over 59 games in two years and was named to the 2005-06 All-Sun Belt First Team. He began his professional career in France at Saint-Étienne and went on to play for Gravelines, Polpak Świecie in Poland, Treviso and Brindisi in Italy, and Le Mans, ASVEL and Dijon in France. He led the Polish league in assists in 2007-08 and won the French Cup with ASVEL in 2009. At Pınar Karşıyaka, where he arrived in 2012, he was MVP of the 2014 Turkish Cup; in 2014-15 he was the league's top scorer, led the team to the title as Finals MVP and made the All-EuroCup Second Team.

He moved to Fenerbahçe in the summer of 2015 and over six seasons won three Basketbol Süper Ligi titles, two Turkish Cups and a Presidential Cup; in March 2016 he recorded a triple-double against Beşiktaş with 23 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. He received a Turkish passport in June 2015 and represented Turkey at EuroBasket 2015, averaging 15 points per game. Talen Horton-Tucker, who joined Fenerbahçe later, has said Dixon helped him adjust to European basketball.