Entente Sportive Avignon Basket is a French former
basketball
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club that was based in
Avignon. Thereafter, it became the Athletic Union Avignon-Le Pontet Basket, which is the leading club in the city, and becoming in 2014, Grand Avignon Sorgues Basket.
History
At the end of the 1976-77 season, ES Avignon rose to the French Division 1, under the leadership of its
captain, Antoine Cerase, the American Mike Hopwood, and the great French hope of the time,
Philippe Szaniel. The club competed for 12 seasons in the elite level championship of France, and had a record of 110 wins, 7 draws, and 199 losses in 316 games.
Site de Basketarchives.fr, page sur le ''superclassement'' de 1ère division
consulté le 15 janvier 2011.
Notable players
* Didier Dobbels
* Alain Larrouquis
* Philip Szanyiel
Philippe "Philip" Szanyiel (born 23 December 1960) is a French former professional basketball player and coach. He was inducted into the French Basketball Hall of Fame, as a player, in 2011.
Professional career
Szanyiel was named to the FIBA E ...
* Franck Cazalon
* Antoine Cerase
* Vince Taylor
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* Horace Wyatt
* Tom Snyder
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* Pat Burtey
* Bernard Van den Broeck
* Emmanuel Schmitt
References
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Basketball teams in France