Parisian supporters can check the date and already reserve their day. According to our information, Paris Basketball will once again settle, the time of a Betclic Elite match – and if the health situation allows it – at the Accor Arena (Paris XIIth). The lair of the French indoor sports spectacle.
After having thought of settling there to welcome its neighbors from Boulogne-Levallois (January 15) or Nanterre (January 23) for the first and expected derbies in history against these clubs, the capital club finally opted for for March 20, 2022 and the arrival of Monaco. One of the two French representatives in the Euroleague – with Asvel – and cador of the French Championship. A poster which corresponds, moreover, to one of the three matches of the promoted one broadcast on France 3 Paris Île-de-France and which will be marked by actions in favor of women through the “Women’s day”.
The postponement of many sports or musical shows due to the health situation and then the organization of Tony Yoka’s boxing match on January 15 finally limited the available dates. But not enough to stop the Parisian club, always quick to bring the basketball out of its anonymity and to resonate the big orange ball on the floor of the Accor Arena.
This is not the first time that Paris Basketball will play a match in the Parisian hall. On January 26, 2020, the club had in fact attracted around 5500 curious and basketball lovers to see a modest meeting of… Pro B against Aix-Maurienne (defeat 83-102). At the time, the club was able to take advantage of the organization of the first regular season NBA game in France – between Milwaukee and Charlotte – two days before to put their baskets in a room already set up for basketball. Against Monaco the hall will be adapted to accommodate 6,900 spectators. In 2021, Paris Basketball was unable to play a match under the spotlight of the Accor Arena due to the health situation.
This gala poster will be the first match of a 100% Parisian club in Elite in this hall since January 28, 2007. At the time the Arena was still called Bercy and the players wore the Paris Basket Racing jersey. 6850 spectators – according to the organizers – had attended the rout of the players of the new coach Ron Stewart against Gravelines (64-97). The following year it was under the patronymic of Paris-Levallois that a Ile-de-France club had played a first division meeting in this den.
As a reminder, the club managed by the American duo David Kahn, president and co-owner, and Éric Schwartz, main owner, will leave the dilapidated Halle Carpentier at the start of the 2023 school year to settle permanently in Arena 2 – which could be called the Arena Alice Milliat for the Paris Games in 2024 – located at Porte de la Chapelle and with a capacity of 8,000 seats.
