Paris Basketball is a French professional

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club based in

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. The club currently plays in the

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, the first division of basketball in

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, and the EuroCup. The club was founded in 2018 by David Kahn and Eric Schwartz. The team plays its home games at the

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. Three years after its establishment, Paris promoted to the first-level Pro A for the first time.

History

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

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of the

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(NBA). In July 2018, the creation of the professional club was announced. 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 Porte de la Chapelle, that was constructed for the

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. The team immediately entered the

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, the national second tier league, as the club bought the licence of

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. The club would play its home games in the

, waiting for the construction of the Paris Arena II. In the 2020–21 season, Paris finished in the second place in the

championship and thus were promoted to the

for the first time in club history. The team was selected to play in the 2022–23 season of the EuroCup, its debut in European competition.

Honours

*Runners-up (1): 2020–21

Season by season

Players

Current roster

Notable players

Head coaches

References

External links

Official website
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