Created on July 12, 2018, Paris Basket celebrates its four years this Tuesday. At the dawn of the entry of the ambitious Parisian club into the Arena at Porte de la Chapelle and as a match at Roland-Garros is looming.
Happy birthday to Paris Basketball! More commonly known as Paris Basket, the capital club founded on July 12, 2018 celebrates its four years this Tuesday. To mark the occasion as the PB blows out its four candles, a press day was notably organized on Tuesday. David Kahn, the emblematic president of the Parisian club who finished the last exercise of Betclic Elite in fifteenth position, will speak, before sharing the four-year cake. The strong man of Paris Basket will reveal in passing the name of the opponent who will face the Parisians on October 16 in the grounds of Roland-Garros. After having already had the pleasure and the honor of treading the floor of the AccorArena twice, the PB and its star player Axel Toupane, who arrived last year from Milwaukee, where he was crowned NBA champion, will cross a additional course by performing this time in the mythical enclosure and usual ground of tennis, which will spend the time of an evening in basketball configuration. “I’m a big believer in the logic of doing things outside the box, especially when you’re in the process of building a brand. The opportunity we were given to work with Roland Garros, an iconic brand, came when the tournament put a roof over Le Chatrier and started looking to the market, with the aim of making it a facility that will be used all year round,” Kahn said recently in an interview with the Greek media SDNA. This new era for the club will also be marked by the entry into the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, another essential chapter for the American leader even if Paris Basket, which currently plays at Halle Carpentier, could alternate receptions at home between the Arena and the AccorArena.
Kahn: “Paris will be a must in European basketball”
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Paris Basketball will play next October 16 at the Roland-Garros stadium 🎾
The complex will host a basketball game for the first time 🏀 pic.twitter.com/mBfWAbfMcT
— Paris Basketball (@ParisBasketball) June 17, 2022
“The city of Paris is building a new 9,000-seat stadium for the Olympic Games at Porte de la Chapelle, located in the northern part of the city. We will be the exclusive tenants of this domain for ten years. Also, the company that manages the new stadium is the same as that which manages the Accor Arena, with a capacity of 17,000 spectators. This can help us in the years to come if we are asked to change venues for a match, whether for revenue or accounting reasons. » All with the same objective of making Paris Basket, which will compete in the Eurocup at the start of the school year, a great player in French basketball and even in Europe, looking further afield., and this in this city of Paris which asks only to shine and is made to shine, according to David Kahn himself, still in the columns of the SDNA site. “Paris is the epicenter of European basketball. Ask Adidas, Nike, Jordan, ask the NBA. The number of players, the brilliant basketball culture, the fashion, the music, it’s all there. It is no coincidence that the NBA now organizes its regular season games in Paris and no longer in London. We are working tirelessly with the aim of making Paris another reason why Paris will be a must in European basketball. A future “must of European basketball” which will first take the time to savor its four years of existence.
