The 28-year-old American leader Paris Lee has signed up for next season with ASVEL. He is thus making his return to France after having worn the jersey of Orléans and Monaco.
The last time we saw him play a match in France was in June 2022 on the Astroballe court, where his Monaco team lost, leaving ASVEL to win their third straight Betclic Elite title. A little over a year later, it is again at the Astroballe that we will find Paris Lee, since the 28-year-old American leader has signed up with ASVEL for next season.
Last season, he wore the jersey of Panathinaikos, where he shot 11.5 points and 4 assists in a team that finished penultimate in the Euroleague (just ahead of…ASVEL) and vice-champion of Greece. “Paris will bring us a lot of things on the pitch: its high-level experience, its great defensive qualities in one-on-one, its sense of creation in attack. He is a player who also knows the French championship very well, who knows how to be decisive as well as to put himself at the service of his teammates, ”rejoiced his new coach TJ Parker.
Lee best passer in the French championship in 2021
Born in Illinois and passed by the University of his State from 2013 to 2017, Paris Lee had not been drafted when he presented himself in 2017. But he rebounded in Belgium (Antwerp) then in Germany (Bamberg), before being recruited by Orléans in the summer of 2020. The point guard immediately adapted to the French championship, since he finished the season with 14.7 points and 7.8 assists of average within the OLB, finishing best passer of Betclic Elite. This made AS Monaco want to recruit him as a replacement for Mike James. And he did not disappoint for the Roca Team, averaging 11 points and 4.7 assists in the league in 24 minutes.
But Paris Lee decided to go to Greece, where he had signed for one season plus an option. He chose not to exercise the option, and here is the one who has a Cameroonian passport (he played in the qualifications for the World Cup last year) back in France. This is ASVEL’s sixth recruit, after Noam Yaacov, Frank Jackson, John Egbunu, Boris Dallo and Mbaye Ndiaye. What to reconnect with the title of champion of France and play in the play-offs in Euroleague?
