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Watch the journey of Paris Basketball in ‘The Making of a EuroLeague Team’

The third episode will be out on YouTube tonight

Paris Basketball was founded just six years ago and has only spent three seasons in the French top flight, yet it now finds itself preparing for its first campaign among Europe’s elite – in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague. The journey has been stratospheric, and ‘The Making of a EuroLeague Team’, a documentary series by Euroleague Basketball Originals, takes viewers behind the curtain as Paris prepares for its debut EuroLeague season.

EuroLeague fans have already been able to watch episode one and episode two on YouTube, with the remaining three episodes set to be released on September 27 (21:00 CEST), October 6 (21:00 CEST), and October 13 (21:00 CEST). The entire series, which provides unprecedented access to all areas of Paris Basketball, will be available to stream via the EuroLeague’s official YouTube channel.

The first episode features some of last season’s protagonists, namely TJ Shorts, Nadir Hifi and Tyson Ward, explaining what it meant to be crowned the 2023-24 EuroCup champion, as well as footage from some of the key moments during their run to the title.

David Kahn and Eric Schwartz, Paris’s owners, are the stars of the second episode, before the club’s history and the current landscape of French basketball takes center stage in the third episode.

As the EuroLeague season nears ever closer, the preparations Paris is undertaking is focused on in the fourth episode, then the fifth and final episode closely looks at how new head coach Tiago Splitter is getting his troops ready for what awaits in the EuroLeague.

‘The Making of a EuroLeague Team’ by Euroleague Basketball Originals is the perfect series for any basketball fan to watch, wetting the appetite for what should be a thrilling 2024-25 season.

Euroleague Basketball (EB) is a global leader in the sports and entertainment business, devoted to running the top European competitions of professional basketball clubs under a unique and innovative organizational model. Owned and administered by some of the most successful and historic clubs in the world, EB manages the continent’s two premier men’s basketball competitions, the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and the BKT EuroCup, as well as the sport’s premier under-18 showcase, the EB Adidas Next Generation Tournament.

The EB competitions bring the elite of European basketball to all five continents and to the entire sports community through the OTT platform EuroLeague TV. EB also organizes a series of community and educational activities, led by the One Team program, in alignment with the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. On the academic side, the EB Sports Business MBA trains future professionals in sports management.