Amir
Rashad.
Formerly known as Quentin Youngblood
Faith-driven leader. Educator. Former professional athlete.
Amir Rashad founded Deen & Basketball to help young athletes develop through the combined power of faith, education, mentorship, discipline, and competitive sport.
His approach draws from his experience as a Division I scholarship athlete, international professional player, mathematics educator, coach, and community leader.
From the court to
a life of service.
Every chapter helped shape the mission.
Amir’s journey through competitive basketball, faith, education, and community leadership became the foundation for an approach that develops young people—not only players.
A foundation in competition
Amir earned All-State honors at El Cerrito High School before receiving a Division I basketball scholarship to the University of Washington.
A defining transformation
Amir embraced Islam during his college years. That decision reshaped his understanding of identity, responsibility, leadership, and what it means to use one’s abilities in service to others.
A broader view of the game
His professional basketball career took him overseas, where he experienced different cultures, coaching styles, competitive environments, and approaches to athlete development.
Education, mentorship, and community
Amir brought his experience into coaching, the classroom, and faith-based community leadership—helping young people connect discipline, education, character, and purpose.
Each chapter strengthened Amir’s belief that basketball can become a disciplined pathway to confidence, character, leadership, faith, and service.
Coaching is leadership in action.
Coaches are more than instructors of the game. They are mentors, role models, communicators, and builders of character.
Accountability is not punishment. It is preparation.
Teach the standard before demanding it.
Athletes receive clear expectations for effort, focus, discipline, preparation, and respect. Coaches provide the instruction, guidance, repetition, and support players need to meet those expectations.
Coach effort, response, and improvement.
Mistakes become learning opportunities. Adversity becomes training. Players are taught to receive feedback, remain composed, make adjustments, and continue working through difficulty.
Who the athlete becomes matters most.
Winning matters, but it never replaces integrity. Athletes learn humility in success, dignity in defeat, responsibility in leadership, and honorable conduct throughout competition.
Create an environment where athletes feel seen.
Coaches support athletes beyond basketball through academic responsibility, emotional awareness, leadership development, faith-centered identity, teamwork, and meaningful community.
Clear, consistent, and constructive.
“When a coach speaks, kids listen. But when a coach lives what he teaches, kids transform.”— Coach Amir Rashad
Train with purpose.
Explore a development environment where basketball instruction, character, discipline, faith, and community work together.