Paris Basketball plays in the LNB Pro A league, the top tier of pro basketball in France, and also competes in the EuroCup. They are coming off a highly successful 2023-24 season in which they won two trophies (the 2024 LNB Pro A Leaders Cup and the 2023-24 EuroCup title).
As for Splitter, he is a former European basketball star himself who later made the leap to the NBA. He played for the Spurs from 2010-15 and was a starter on the team that made the 2013 NBA Finals and then won the 2014 NBA championship. Splitter would eventually play for the Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers too, finishing his NBA career with averages of 7.9 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.
After retiring as a player, Splitter became an assistant coach for both the Brooklyn Nets (from 2019-23) and for the Houston Rockets (for the 2023-24 season). While most still remember Splitter for being on the wrong end of an iconic NBA highlight, he is now ready to make a new name for himself as the head coach for one of the top teams in Europe.
