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Wikipedia - Nanterre 92

Nanterre 92 is a professional basketball club from the city of Nanterre (a western suburb of Paris), France. The club has played in the top-tier level basketball league in France, the Pro A, since 2011. Founded in 2011 as JSF Nanterre, the club plays its home games in the Palais des Sports, which has a capacity of 3,000 people. The honor list of Nanterre includes one French championship and two French Cup titles as well as a FIBA Europe Cup championship.

History

Nanterre 92 played in the French 2nd Division, for the first time, in the 2004–05 season. In 2007, the club made it to the finals of the French Cup. In 2011, the club won the French 2nd Division championship, and got promoted to the top national domestic level French League.

In the 2012–13 French League season, after finishing in the eighth position of the regular season, Nanterre 92 won its first top-tier national domestic title, and thus qualified to play in the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague, in the 2013–14 season.

In the French League 2013–14 season, Nanterre didn't manage to reach the league's playoffs, after finishing 10th in the Pro A regular season. Despite the disappointment in the national league competition, Nanterre 92 won the French Cup title that season. They beat SLUC Nancy Basket, by a score of 55–50, in the Cup's Final. In the French Leaders Cup, Nanterre 92 also reached the Cup Final, but lost to Le Mans Sarthe Basket. Nanterre also made its debut in the EuroLeague that season.

To start the 2014–15 season, Nanterre won the Match des Champions (French Super Cup). On April 26, 2015, Nanterre won its first European-wide trophy. In the 2015, EuroChallenge Final, it beat Trabzsonspor, 63–64, on a buzzer-beater by T.J. Campbell.

In February 2016, the team's name was changed from JSF Nanterre, to Nanterre 92, with "92" representing the numeric code of the club's home department of Hauts-de-Seine.

Nanterre 92 er et fransk basketballhold baseret i byen Nanterre i det vestlige Paris. Holdet spiller i den øverste franske basketballliga, LNB Pro A, og har vundet den franske pokalturnering to gange, i 2013 og 2017.

Holdet blev grundlagt i 1928 som Racing Club de France Basket og blev til Nanterre Basket i 1999. I 2010 skiftede holdet navn til Nanterre 92 for at afspejle departementet, det ligger i.

Nanterres hjemmebane er Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez, som har en kapacitet på 3000 tilskuere. Holdets farver er rød og hvid.

Nanterre har flere notable spillere på sin nuværende holdliste, herunder den tidligere NBA-spiller Edwin Jackson, den franske landsholdsspiller Nicolas Batum og den unge stjerne Victor Wembanyama, der forventes at blive draftet højt i NBA-draften i 2023.

Holdet er kendt for sin offensive spillestil og har flere spillere, der kan score point fra alle mulige afstande på banen. Nanterre har også et stærkt forsvar, som ofte er blandt de bedste i ligaen.

Nanterre er et af de mest succesfulde basketballhold i Frankrig i de senere år. Holdet har vundet den franske pokalturnering to gange og har været i finalen tre gange. Nanterre har også deltaget i europæiske turneringer, herunder EuroCup, hvor holdet nåede kvartfinalen i 2013.