Clément Pédron, Media365, published on Thursday January 2, 2025 at 10:56 a.m.
Until recently, AS Monaco was the overwhelming favorite for the title of French champion along with Asvel. But Paris Basketball has since made a sensational entrance to the point of seriously calling into question the supremacy of the Roca Team.
Who would have believed, in 2018, that six years after its creation, Paris Basketball would have already won a Leaders Cup and a Eurocup, would compete in the finals of the Betclic Élite then the Euroleague with success? Nobody or almost no one. The capital club has made a sensational entry into the French sporting landscape in recent years after its rise to the first division, only three years after its creation. Since then, President David Kahn’s team has been living a real waking dream, the result of thoughtful and astonishing progress at all levels. The success of the Parisians since the 2020-2021 financial year has caused them to constantly lose elements, whether players or members of the staff, but no matter, Paris Basketball continues to reinvent itself. So successfully.
In addition, the club benefits from the support of the population, delighted to see an Ile-de-France team shine after the great epic of the Mets of Boulogne-Levallois. In their brand new room at the Adidas Arena, the men of the capital are stringing together successes like pearls. And if they missed winning the title of French champion last year in the final against AS Monaco (3-1), Tiago Splitter’s players intend to take their revenge. And have already started to do so…
The Roca Team shaken up
ASM has returned to the game for several years and remains the reigning double champion of France after three consecutive successes for ASVEL. Thanks to its budget, the highest in the championship, the Roca Team has acquired the best assets such as Mike James, Élie Okobo, Jordan Loyd and Donatas Motiejūnas. And even if the Rocher players recently had a new coach in the person of Vasílios Spanoúlis (replacing Sasa Obradovic) and have been alternating the good and the less good for many weeks, they remain quite dominant in the French championship. However, this season, we must learn to share since AS Monaco is fighting with Paris Basketball, ASVEL and Cholet. Despite the Betclic Élite, the Roca Team and the “PB” are showing quite a face on a European scale. The first team mentioned is third in the European competition (10 wins, 5 losses) while the second is…first! Above all, Paris Basketball is on an incredible series, as of December 13, of ten victories in a row (11 victories, 3 defeats).
