Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
A city of tourism and culture and also of football, probably with the addition of Leo Messi to the city's big team.
But starting next season basketball is also starting to be a factor in the French capital, with three teams in the first domestic league: Paris Le Blois Metropolitans 92, Nanterre and Paris Basquette.
Metropolitan 92, may go far on two fronts: league and Eurocup.
The Israeli forward Tomer Ginat, an opening player in his second season at the club, is a partner in these great ambitions.
Although Wheelerban is the champion and senior team in the league playing in the Euroleague and its future is guaranteed for the coming years, Metropolitan 92 also has ambitions to reach the senior factory where they will have a hard time ignoring the growing trend of Paris as a basketball city.
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Ginat's team is closer to there than the other two in the city, and will try to qualify for the Eurocup final this season, a status that guarantees a ticket to the Euroleague of the 2022/2023 season.
Ginat: "I unequivocally think that there will be a team from Paris in the Euroleague in the coming years. This city is special and central, and I am sure that the Euroleague will also be happy for the team from Paris, I hope I will be a part of it."
Aim high
As mentioned, with three teams in the senior league, we are guaranteed quite a few Parisian derbies this season.
Metropolitan 92 and Nanterre were joined this season by Paris Basquette, who was promoted from the second division just three years after its establishment and is emerging as a new force in French basketball.
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She is already making signs that she wants to go far and aim high with the signing of a high-ranking player in the form of Kyle O'Quinn, a senior NBA player who played in the Euroleague last season in the Fenerbahce uniform.
Another signing of Gard with a lot of European experience is that of Ryan Boothright and the president of Paris Basket is the American David Kahn, who has worked on a number of separations in several NBA teams.
Ginat: "Paris Basquet is building a very good team, and wants to have a good season that will bring it to European competition next year.
"Our real derby is against Nanterre, who are in the suburbs next to us, but the game against Paris Basque will also be full of emotions and I am very much looking forward to it."
According to Ginat, the strengthening of basketball in the French capital is a trend, but there is no agenda behind it: "I do not think there is a special reason for this. The ambition of the teams in Paris in general is always to aim upwards. For example: "More money is coming into the industry and good teams are being built here and we are striving to go far."
Mission Statement
And back to Ginat's team, which already last season convinced with a performance in the EuroCup quarterfinals and sixth place in the league.
According to the reinforcements she has made this summer, she is not satisfied with her achievements so far and wants to go all the way on all fronts.
An example of this was given by the Lithuanian "Basket News" website, which selected the ten most prominent transfers of the Eurocup teams and two of them of Metropolitans 92: forward Jordan McRae, with a nice resume in the NBA, and center Vince Hunter, with a European resume that includes winning the trophy FIBA champions with AK Athens and a period in Virtus Bologna.
To these will be added another player with a high-profile European career in the form of quarterback Will Cummings who came from the Cuban locomotive, as well as French forward Bendjia C and American scorer Keith Hornsby. The president of the team, Boris Dio, a French basketball legend, was not satisfied with this and appointed the person who has coached him several times in the team, Vincent Cola, who has coached France for the last 12 years - this is also a kind of statement of intent.
