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Aurelien CANOT

06/01/2022 11:14 am | UPDATED ON 01/06/2022 11:35 AM

Arrived in the capital at the beginning of the week, Axel Toupane (29 years old, 2.01 m) signed up on Thursday in favor of Paris basketball. The reigning NBA champion with Milwaukee signed a three-year contract extending until 2024. A huge blow for the Parisian club.

From the NBA champion’s ring to the Eiffel Tower. Sacred last season with the Milwaukee Bucks alongside the superstar of the Wisconsin franchise Giannis Antetokounmpo, Axel Toupane (29 years, 2.01 m) returns to the French championship. Present in the capital since the beginning of the week to finalize the last details of his arrival at Paris basketball, the French international winger has signed a three-year contract in favor of the club Parisian who will link him to the current fifteenth of the Betclic Elite ranking until 2024

, the year of the Olympic Games in Paris. A huge blow for Paris, who managed to convince the native of Mulhouse to return to France, he who had left our championship in 2015 while playing in Strasbourg for Canada and the 905 Raptors G-League franchise. Toupane has indeed known three NBA teams during his career, Denver, New Orleans and therefore Milwaukee, where he had already been in 2017, his career essentially boils down to experiences in G-League, the antechamber of the famous North American league.

Passed quickly through Strasbourg in 2020

Welcome 🏠 @ toups_33 🖤❤️💙

3️⃣3️⃣ flocked on the jersey, the international 🇫🇷, NBA champion in ’21 with the @ Bucks , @ toups_33 brings his experience and talent to Paname.

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– Paris Basketball (@ParisBasketball) January 6, 2022

This season, the bronze medalist of the last Worlds with the Blues (he has 25 caps), absent on the other hand this summer in Tokyo, had also started in G-League, under the colors of the Warriors of Santa Cruz. Wishing to find playing time, the son of the coach of the French women’s team Jean-Aimé Toupane asked be released from his contract to survey Europe and therefore Paris, where he landed in the skin of a luxury recruit who could allow Parisians to quickly find color in the rankings. “Toups comes to bring his experience and his talent to Paname”, assures Paris basketball in its tweet this Thursday, which says a lot about the happiness of the club of the capital to have succeeded in attracting in his nets the one who had made a brief hook by France and Strasbourg last season before returning to the United States. And to win the best trophy ever with the Bucks. Holy CV!