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.

Paris Basketball
Paris Basketball logo
LeaguesLNB Pro A
EuroCup
Founded12 July 2018; 5 years ago (2018-07-12)
HistoryParis Basketball
2018–present
ArenaAdidas Arena
Capacity8,000
LocationParis, France
Main sponsorSnipes [de]
PresidentDavid Kahn
Head coachTuomas Iisalo
OwnershipParis Basketball Investments
Championships1 EuroCup
1 French League Cup
Websiteparisbasketball.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 edit

The 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 edit

The 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 edit

Domestic competitions edit

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
Paris Basketball
Season Tier League Finish Pld W L Win% Playoffs French Cup Other Cups European Competitions Head coach
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 Round of 64 Leaders Cup champions EuroCup champions Tuomas Iisalo

Players edit

Current roster edit

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Paris Basketball roster
Players Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age
PG 0   Shorts, T. J. 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) 73 kg (161 lb) 26 – (1997-10-15)15 October 1997
SF 1   Malcolm, Collin 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 91 kg (201 lb) 26 – (1997-07-02)2 July 1997
G 2   Hifi, Nadir 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 21 – (2002-07-16)16 July 2002
SF 3   Ward, Tyson 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 26 – (1997-07-26)26 July 1997
F/C 5   Sy, Bandja 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 33 – (1990-07-30)30 July 1990
F/C 6   Kessens, Michael 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 103 kg (227 lb) 33 – (1991-02-16)16 February 1991
SG 7   Herrera, Sebastian 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 86 kg (190 lb) 26 – (1997-11-01)1 November 1997
C 8   Kratzer, Leon 2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 110 kg (243 lb) 27 – (1997-02-04)4 February 1997
G/F 9   Denis, Gauthier 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1997-04-01)1 April 1997
PG 10   Ngouama, Mehdy 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 79 kg (174 lb) 28 – (1995-07-06)6 July 1995
F/C 18   Shahrvin, Enzo 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 21 – (2003-02-13)13 February 2003
PF 20   Jantunen, Mikael 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 100 kg (220 lb) 24 – (2000-04-20)20 April 2000
F 23   Simon, Justin 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 98 kg (216 lb) 28 – (1996-05-06)6 May 1996
F 77   Logue, Maxim 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 18 – (2005-07-18)18 July 2005
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
  •   Adrián Kovács
  •   Bienvenue Kindoki
  •   Emmanuel Mavomo

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  •   Injured

Updated: August 10, 2023

Depth chart edit

Pos. Starting 5 Bench 1 Bench 2 Bench 3
C Leon Kratzer Bandja Sy Michael Kessens
PF Mikael Jantunen Justin Simon Enzo Shahrvin
SF Tyson Ward Collin Malcolm Gauthier Denis Maxim Logue
SG Nadir Hifi Sebastian Herrera
PG T. J. Shorts Mehdy Ngouama

Notable players edit

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

Criteria

To appear in this section a player must have either:

  • Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
  • Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
  • Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

Head coaches edit

No. Name From To
1   Jean-Christophe Prat 2018 2022
2   Will Weaver 2022 2023
3   Tuomas Iisalo 2023 present

References edit

  1. ^ "Basket - Pro B : Le projet du Paris Basketball dévoilé". Sport 365 (in French). 12 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Basket : le Paris Basketball officiellement promu en Jeep Elite". LEFIGARO (in French). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  4. ^ "2022-23 EuroLeague and EuroCup participating teams confirmed | Euroleague Basketball". Euroleague Basketball. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  5. ^ Led by T.J. Shorts, Paris captures maiden French Leaders Cup over Nanterre, eurohoops.net, 18 February 2024
  6. ^ T.J. Shorts, Paris: 'We feel like nobody can stop us', euroleaguebasketball.net, 25 December 2023

External links edit