Kareem Lamar Rush (born October 30, 1980) is a retired American professional basketball player. Rush's younger brother, Brandon, plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves, while older brother JaRon played college basketball for UCLA.
After graduating from Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, Rush attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where he was a standout guard on the basketball team. Rush averaged 19.8 points per game as a junior, leading the Tigers to the Western Regional finals in the NCAA tournament, where they lost to Oklahoma. As a sophomore in 2000–01, he led the Big 12 in scoring, averaging 21.1 points per game. During this time, Rush worked with world-renowned conditioning coach Istvan Javorek.