Paris Basketball

Paris Basketball
Paris Basketball
Leagues	LNB Pro A; EuroCup
Founded	12 July 2018; 5 years ago
History	Paris Basketball; 2018–present
Arena	Porte de La Chapelle Arena
Capacity	8,000
Location	Paris, France
Main sponsor	Snipes [de]
President	David Kahn
Head coach	Tuomas Iisalo
Ownership	Paris Basketball Investments
Championships	1 EuroCup; 1 French League Cup
Website	parisbasketball.paris

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.

Founded in 2018 by David Kahn and Eric Schwartz, Paris Basketball plays its home games at the Porte de La Chapelle Arena. Three years after its establishment, Paris promoted to the first-level Pro A for the first time in 2021. In 2024, Paris Basketball 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]

LNB Pro A Leaders Cup

Winners (1): 2023–24

LNB Pro B

Runners-up (1): 2020–21

European competitions[edit]

EuroCup

Champions (1): 2023–24

Season by season[edit]

Champions	Runners-up	Playoff berth
DNQ	Did not qualify

Season	Tier	League	Finish	Pld	W	L	Win%	Playoffs	French Cup	Other Cups	European Competitions	Head coach
Paris Basketball
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							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.	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)	27 – (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

Tuomas Iisalo

Assistant coach(es)

Adrián Kovács
Bienvenue Kindoki
Emmanuel Mavomo

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

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]

^ "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

External links[edit]

Official website

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[1] "Basket - Pro B : Le projet du Paris Basketball dévoilé". Sport 365 (in French). 12 July 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

[Star_Var_News_2018-2] "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

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Head coach: Iisalo Assistant coaches: Kovács Kindoki Mavomo