Paris Basketball is a French professional basketball club based in Paris. The club currently plays in the LNB Pro A, the first division of basketball in France, and the EuroCup.
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| Leagues | LNB Pro A EuroCup | |||
| Founded | 12 July 2018 | |||
| History | Paris Basketball 2018–present | |||
| Arena | Adidas Arena | |||
| Capacity | 8,000 | |||
| Location | Paris, France | |||
| Main sponsor | Snipes | |||
| President | David Kahn | |||
| Head coach | Tuomas Iisalo | |||
| Ownership | Paris Basketball Investments | |||
| Championships | 1 EuroCup 1 French League Cup | |||
| Website | parisbasketball.paris | |||
Founded in 2018, Paris plays its home games at the Adidas Arena. Three years after its establishment, Paris promoted to the first-level Pro A for the first time in 2021. In 2024, the team won the LNB Pro A Leaders Cup and the 2023–24 EuroCup titles.
History
editThe club started as a project to bring a big basketball club to the city of Paris, led by David Kahn, former director of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In July 2018, the creation of the professional club was announced.[1] At the revealing, the ambitions were to be a team in the EuroLeague, the highest-level European league, by 2022. The future home arena of the team would be an arena in Quartier de La Chapelle, that was constructed for the 2024 Olympics. The team immediately entered the LNB Pro B, the national second-tier league, as the club bought the licence of HTV Basket.[2] The club would play its home games in the Halle Georges Carpentier, waiting for the construction of the Paris Arena II.
In the 2020–21 season, Paris finished in the second place in the LNB Pro B championship and thus were promoted to the LNB Pro A for the first time in club history.[3] During that season, rapper Sheck Wes also played for the team for three games while coming off the bench for Paris.
Recent years
editThe team was selected to play in the 2022–23 season of the EuroCup, its debut in European competition.[4]
On 18 February 2024, Paris won the 2024 LNB Pro A Leaders Cup title, by defeating Nanterre 90–85 in the final, with a 26-point performance of the MVP T. J. Shorts.[5]
Paris won the 2023–24 EuroCup, after 2-0 in finals against Bourg. [6]
Honours
editDomestic competitions
edit- Runners-up (1): 2023–24
- Winners (1): 2023–24
- Runners-up (1): 2020–21
European competitions
edit- Champions (1): 2023–24
Season by season
edit| Champions | Runners-up | Playoff berth |
| DNQ | Did not qualify | |
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| Season | Tier | League | Finish | Pld | W | L | Win% | Playoffs | French Cup | Other Cups | European Competitions | Head coach | |
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| 2018–19 | 2 | Pro B | 11th | 34 | 16 | 18 | .471 | DNQ | Round of 64 | Leaders Cup quarter-finals | DNQ | Jean-Christophe Prat | |
| 2019–20 | 2 | Pro B | 10th | 23 | 11 | 12 | .478 | DNQ | Round of 32 | Leaders Cup quarter-finals | |||
| 2020–21 | 2 | Pro B | 2nd  | 34 | 23 | 11 | .676 | N/A | Round of 64 | Leaders Cup semi-finals | |||
| 2021–22 | 1 | Pro A | 15th | 34 | 13 | 21 | .382 | DNQ | Round of 8 | N/A | |||
| 2022–23 | 1 | Pro A | 9th | 34 | 16 | 18 | .471 | DNQ | Round of 32 | Leaders Cup DNQ | EuroCup quarter-finals | Will Weaver | |
| 2023–24 | 1 | Pro A | 2nd | 34 | 27 | 7 | .794 | Runners-up | Round of 64 | Leaders Cup champions | EuroCup champions | Tuomas Iisalo | |
Players
editCurrent roster
editNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Depth chart
editNotable players
editNote: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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To appear in this section a player must have either:
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Ryan Boatright
Chris Goulding
Amar Gegić
Juhann Bégarin- Nobel Boungou Colo
- Sylvain Francisco
- Ismaël Kamagate
- Victor Samnick
- Amara Sy
- Axel Toupane
- Daniel Dillon
Kris Joseph- Jevohn Shepherd
Evans Ganapamo
Marquez Haynes
Karim Ezzedine
Ben Uzoh
Alfonso Plummer
Sheck Wes
Michael Roll
Kyle Allman- Jeremy Evans
- Kyle O'Quinn
- Aamir Simms
- Dustin Sleva
- Tyrone Wallace
Mikael Jantunen
Head coaches
edit| No. | Name | From | To |
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| 1 |  Jean-Christophe Prat | 2018 | 2022 |
| 2 |  Will Weaver | 2022 | 2023 |
| 3 |  Tuomas Iisalo | 2023 | present |
References
edit- ^ "Basket - Pro B : Le projet du Paris Basketball dévoilé". Sport 365 (in French). 12 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ "C'est officiel, le HTV sans basket professionnel, Philippe Legname obligé de quitter la fédération". Star Var News (in French). 6 July 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ^ "Basket : le Paris Basketball officiellement promu en Jeep Elite". LEFIGARO (in French). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ "2022-23 EuroLeague and EuroCup participating teams confirmed | Euroleague Basketball". Euroleague Basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
- ^ Led by T.J. Shorts, Paris captures maiden French Leaders Cup over Nanterre, eurohoops.net, 18 February 2024
- ^ T.J. Shorts, Paris: 'We feel like nobody can stop us', euroleaguebasketball.net, 25 December 2023
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