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2016–17 Pro A Season
The 2016–17 Pro A season was the 95th season of the Pro A, the top basketball league in France organised by the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB). The season started on 24 September 2016 and ended on 24 June 2017. A total of 330 games were played over the season, as Élan Chalon won its second national championship in club history after beating SIG Strasbourg in the playoff finals. D. J. Cooper of Élan Béarnais Pau-Lacq-Orthez was named Most Valuable Player of the regular season. Teams Promotion and relegation Rouen Métropole Basket and STB Le Havre were relegated after finishing in the last two spots in the 2015–16 Pro A season. Hyères-Toulon Var Basket was promoted after it was crowned as the new Pro B champions. ESSM Le Portel was promoted from the Pro B after winning the promotion play-offs. Locations and arenas :;Notes : Team makes its debut in the Pro A. : The defending champions, winners of the 2015–16 Pro A season. Regular season In the regular season, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015–16 Pro A Season
The 2015–16 LNB Pro A season was the 94th season of the LNB Pro A. The season started on October 3, 2015 and ended June 14, 2016. AS Monaco Basket, Monaco and Olympique Antibes, Antibes Sharks were newcomers this season. Limoges CSP was the defending champion. ASVEL Basket, ASVEL took the title, after beating Strasbourg IG 3–2 in the Finals. Teams Promotion and relegation JL Bourg-en-Bresse, Bourg-en-Bresse and SOMB Boulogne-sur-Mer, Boulogne-sur-Mer were relegated after the two teams finished in 17th and 18th place last season. AS Monaco Basket, Monaco was promoted after they won the 2014–15 Pro B, and Olympique Antibes, Antibes Sharks were promoted as the Pro B Playoffs winners. 2015–16 teams Regular season League table Playoffs Statistical leaders :''After the end of the Regular Season.'' Points , width=50% valign=top , Assists Awards All-Star Game The All-Star Game was played on December 30, 2015 and was played at the Bercy Arena in Paris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympique Antibes
Olympique Antibes, in full ''Olympique d'Antibes Juan-les-Pins'' and branded as Antibes Sharks, is a basketball club from the city of Antibes, France. Established in 1933, the club's men's senior team currently plays in LNB Pro B, the French second division. The club has won the French championship three times, the last being in 1995. History The basketball team rose to prominence in the years 1950–60. In 1970, the team won the championship of France thanks to players of exception like Jean-Claude Bonato, Dan Rodriguez and Jacques Cachemire. At the beginning of the Eighties, Antibes suffered several disappointing seasons, but improved throughout the decade, and eventually won the LNB Pro A title in 1991. At the beginning of the Nineties, Antibes regularly contended for titles alongside Limoges CSP and Pau-Orthez. In 1995, the club won a third national title before being plagued by financial problems. In 2002, in spite of finishing in a position that would have kept them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESSM Le Portel
Étoile Sportive Saint-Michel Le Portel Côte d'Opale, commonly known as ESSM Le Portel or simply Le Portel, is a professional basketball team based in Le Portel, France. The team currently plays in the LNB Pro A, Pro A, the first tier in France. History In the 2014–15 season, ESSM had a historic run to the French Basketball Cup, Coupe de France Final. They beat Pro A teams Le Mans, Le Havre, ASVEL and reigning French champion Limoges CSP to qualify for their first cup final ever. In the Final they lost 2014–15 French Basketball Cup#Final, 74–87 to SIG Strasbourg. In the 2015–16 season, Le Portel won the LNB Pro B, Pro B play-offs which gained the team promotion to the LNB Pro A. In the first Pro A season of the club, they reached the playoffs after they captured the eight-seed. In the following 2017–18 season, Le Portel made its European debut in the FIBA Europe Cup. In this competition, the team reached the quarter-finals, where it lost to Bakken Bears. Arenas *George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanterre 92
Nanterre 92 is a professional basketball club from the city of Nanterre (a western suburb of Paris), France. The club has played in French basketball league system, the top-tier level basketball league in France, the LNB Pro A, Pro A, since 2011. Founded in 2011 as JSF Nanterre, the club plays its home games in the Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez, Palais des Sports, which has a capacity of 3,000 people. The honor list of Nanterre includes one French championship and two French Cup titles as well as a FIBA Europe Cup championship. History The club was established in 1927 as JSF Nanterre. Nanterre played in the LNB Pro B, French 2nd Division, for the first time, in the 2004–05 season. In 2007, the club made it to the finals of the French Basketball Cup, French Cup. In 2011, the club won the French 2nd Division championship, and got promotion and relegation, promoted to the top national domestic level LNB Pro A, French League. In the 2012–13 LNB Pro A season, 2012–13 French L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strasbourg IG
Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket, most commonly known as SIG Basket or SIG Strasbourg, is a French professional basketball club that is based in Strasbourg. The club, founded in 1929, competes domestically in the French Pro A League. The club's home games are played at Rhénus Sport. The players wear white and red uniforms. History The club was founded in 1929, and reached the top-tier of French basketball for the first time in 1938. Starting from the 2004–05 season, new head coach Éric Girard took over the team. In the regular season, SIG finished 3rd and Giard was named Coach of the Year. Strasbourg won the top-tier French League for the first time in the 2004–05 season. SIG beat its rival SLUC Nancy 72–68. In the 2005–06 season, Strasbourg played in the EuroLeague. The team had some outstanding results, as they beat top-tier team Saski Baskonia. In the Pro A, the team was defeated by Nancy 1–2 in the Semi-finals. In the 2006–07 season, the team woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez
Elan Corporation plc was a major drugs firm based in Dublin, Ireland, which had major interests in the United States. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ELN, the Irish Stock Exchange as ELN.I, and the London Stock Exchange as ELN.L. In 2013, the company merged with Perrigo to form Perrigo Company PLC. History The company was founded in Ireland by American businessman Don Panoz in 1969. In the late 1990s, its value on the Irish Stock Exchange reached over €20bn. However, in 2002, an accounting scandal and investor reactions to the global slump, caused a major devaluation resulting in a share price slump of over 90%. In July 2010, Élan was fined $203m for its marketing of epilepsy drugs. In February 2013, Elan decided to dispose of the rights to sell Tysabri to Biogen Idec for $3.25 billion. Products in development In neurology, Elan was focused on building upon its research and experience in the area of neuropathologies such as Alzheimer’s disease, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris-Levallois Basket
Metropolitans 92 is a French professional basketball club that is based in Levallois-Perret, in the Paris metropolitan area. The club currently plays in the LNB Pro A, the highest-tier level in French basketball. The club was established in 2007, as Paris-Levallois Basket. Its home arena is the Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan, which has a seating capacity of 4,000 people. Levallois has won two titles thus far, winning the French Federation Cup and the Match des Champions (French Supercup), both in 2013. The team is most known for being the former club of Victor Wembanyama, who went on to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA) after being selected number one in the 2023 NBA draft after his sole season with Metropolitans. In 2024, the team, after finishing in last place, was relegated to the Nationale Masculine 1 league. History Named after the French Revolution, the club was founded in its current form in 2007, with the merger of Paris Basket Racing, from the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entente Orléanaise
Entente, meaning a diplomatic "understanding", may refer to a number of agreements: History * Entente (alliance), a type of treaty or military alliance where the signatories promise to consult each other or to cooperate with each other in case of a crisis or military action * Entente Cordiale (1904) between France and the United Kingdom * Anglo-Russian Entente (1907) between the United Kingdom and Russia * Triple Entente, an informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance (1894), the Entente Cordiale (1904), and the Anglo-Russian Entente (1907) ** Allies of World War I, sometimes referred to as "The Entente", "The Entente Powers", or "The Entente Forces" * Little Entente (1920–1938), between Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia * Balkan Entente (1934–1938), between Greece, Turkey, Romania and Yugoslavia * Baltic Entente (1934–1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASVEL Basket
ASVEL Basket, currently known as LDLC ASVEL for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional basketball team located in the commune of Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, France. The club, which is the basketball section of the ASVEL multi-sports club, competes at the highest level of French basketball, the LNB Élite. The club's home games are played in both the OL Arena and the Astroballe which have a seated capacities of 12,523 and 5,560 respectively. Founded in 1948, the team is the most successful in French basketball with 21 LNB Élite championships and 10 French Cup titles. In 2014, Tony Parker became the president of the club. In 2017, Nicolas Batum became the club's director of basketball operations. In June 2019, football club Olympique Lyonnais's holding company OL Groupe purchased a 25% stake in the ASVEL men's team, plus a 10% stake in the ASVEL women's team, in a deal worth around €3.7 million. The deal also included a plan for a new EuroLeague-standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limoges CSP
Limoges Cercle Saint-Pierre, commonly referred to as Limoges CSP or CSP, is a French professional basketball club based in the city of Limoges. History The club was founded in 1929, but its peak was during the 1980s and 1990s, when they became the first French club to win a major European-wide title in a team sport, by winning the EuroLeague, FIBA European League (EuroLeague) in 1992–93 FIBA European League, 1993. In the 1999–2000 season, Limoges won its 9th French basketball league system, top-tier level LNB Pro A, French League title, but it was promotion and relegation, relegated to the French second division LNB Pro B, after winning it, because of financial problems. The club didn't get back to its old state for a long time, as it spent the next 3 years in the Pro A, but was relegated again in 2004 after finishing dead last. Starting with the 2004–05 season, Limoges played in the Nationale Masculine 1, NM1, the French third division, due to continued financial problems. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Mans Sarthe Basket
Le Mans Sarthe Basket, commonly known as MSB or Le Mans, is a professional basketball club that is from the city of Le Mans, France. The team plays in the French League and internationally in the Basketball Champions League. Established in 1939, the team has been a regular in the Pro A, as well as in European competitions. The team has won five national championships, four French Cups and four Leaders Cups. History The Modern Sport Club (1939–1993) In 1928, French businessmen, Léopold Gouloumés arrived at the city Mans and founded the food association: the Société des Comptoirs Modernes. Like many other industries at the time, him and Bernard Gasnal, founded their own sport club called Goulou Club in 1938. But in September 1939 the Second World War broke out and the men were needed to fight. With the male absent, women decided to persuade the Goulou Club into creating a basketball team for them. In 1941, the French government prohibited sport clubs to use the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BCM Gravelines
Basket Club Maritime Gravelines-Dunkerque, commonly referred to as BCM Gravelines-Dunkerque, is a French professional basketball club based in Gravelines. They currently play in the Pro A, the highest professional league in France. The team formerly played its home games at Sportica, before that arena was destroyed by fire on 24 December 2023. History During the summer of 2012, Gravelines secured the services of a player who would become a club legend, Dwight Buycks. His teammates included Ludovic Vaty, JK Edwards, Ousmane Camara, and Yannick Bokolo, and they formed one of the greatest teams in the club's history. Only real regret, this "Dream Team" will not go after the title of Champion of France, and will be eliminated in the 8th final. But she will still win the "LeadersCup" formerly "Semaine des As" for the 2nd time in its history. The 2020–21 season brought severe challenges as the club struggled with the Covid breaks plus had to compensate the injuries of key players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
