NBA champion with Milwaukee in 2021, then passed through the G-League box with the Santa Cruz Warriors, where he shot 19.0 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.8 interceptions on average over eight games, Axel Toupane should soon offer a new challenge.
L’Équipe newspaper effectively indicates that the Frenchman is about to engage with Paris Basketball, promoted to the French first division this season and currently 15th in Betclic Élite (5 wins – 9 losses). A club with which he also trained on Monday and where he would find another ex-NBAer, Kyle O’Quinn, in addition to his compatriot Juhann Begarin, probable future NBAer.
At 29, Axel Toupane would rediscover a championship he knows well, since he played there between 2011 and 2015 (Strasbourg), before flying to the United States, Lithuania, Greece and then Spain. The tricolor full-back / winger then returned to France in 2020, still in Strasbourg, the club where he made his professional debut.
The newspaper L’Équipe also specifies that the former player of the Nuggets, Pelicans and Bucks would have refused offers from the NBA and Euroleague, in order to favor the Parisian project.
