Tom Crean has officially completed his first coaching staff at Georgia. The university announced Friday evening that Crean has brought on Texas A&M assistant coach Amir Abdur-Rahim as the third assistant coach. He joins Chad Dollar and Joe Scott as the three assistants on UGA's new staff.

"We are excited to bring Amir, Ari, and their daughter Laila home to Georgia to join the UGA community and our Basketball Family," Crean said in a statement released by UGA Sports Information. "Amir has proven himself to be an outstanding basketball coach with the drive and knowledge to help develop players, game plans and overall scope of the programs he has worked in. His ability to recruit is shown in his energy, dogged determination and relationship building. His knowledge of SEC and ability to work with our big men will provide immediate help."

Abdur-Rahim is originally from Marietta and attended Wheeler High School. He has spent the past two years at Texas A&M under Billy Kennedy, a coach he worked for previously at Murray State.

The veteran assistant is happy to be returning to just over an hour from where he spent his high school years.

"My family and I are truly honored to be coming home to join Coach Crean and the Georgia Bulldog Family," Abdur-Rahim said. "I am excited for the opportunity to learn from and work with Coach Crean, who is considered one of the best coaches and developers of young men in the country. His energy, passion and vision for Georgia Basketball and our student-athletes is clear and one that will be very exciting to be part of. I can't wait to build real relationships with our current and future student-athletes. Having played with Georgia great D.A. Layne and competed against Georgia great Ezra Williams in high school, I know what Committing to the G means and can't wait to feel the unbelievable energy Stegeman Coliseum has to offer."

After his time at Murray State Abdur-Rahim served as the director of player personnel at Georgia Tech under Brian Gregory. He then moved on to College of Charleston where he was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. For two years he coached under Doug Wojcik at CoC. The Cougars went 24-11 in the 2012-2013 season and ended their season by playing in the College Basketball Invitational. It was just the 11th time in school history the program had been invited to play in the postseason.

Abdur-Rahim also played for Kennedy at Southeastern Louisiana. A three-time All-Southland Conference performer, he exited as the programs seventh all-time leading scorer. He was the programs leading scorer for his sophomore, junior and senior seasons.

He's the younger brother of NBA all-star Shareef Abdul-Rahim, who spent 13 years in the league with Vancouver, Atlanta, Portland and Sacramento. Shareef also served as the director of player personnel for the Kings.

Should Abdur-Rahim join Crean's staff, it'll give him two coaches who are quite familiar with recruiting the Peach State. Dollar is also from the Atlanta area and has ties to Georgia Tech where he was a strong recruiter. He was the first of Crean's assistant coaching hires after former Jonas Hayes, now at Xavier, was pursued.

Ties to the Peach State was something Crean said he wanted early on.

“Oh I think knowing the (Atlanta) area is going to be important,” Crean said in his introductory press conference. “I don’t profess to have that. That’s where I think the staffing and really looking at what’s going to happen, certainly when you come to Georgia, the geographical footprint of really knowing the landscape is really, really important.”