Alexis Ajinça

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Basketball player
Alexis Ajinça
Alexis Ajinça
Player information
birthday May 6, 1988
place of birth Saint-Etienne , France
size 218 cm
position center
NBA draft 2008 , 20th place, Charlotte Bobcats
Jersey number 42
Clubs as active
2006–2007 Élan Béarnais Pau-Lacq-Orthez 2007–2008 Hyères-Toulon Var Basket 2008–2010 Charlotte Bobcats 2010–2011 Dallas Mavericks 2011 Toronto Raptors 2011 Hyères-Toulon Var Basket 2011–2013 Strasbourg IG 2013–2018 New Orleans Pelicans 2019 ASVEL Lyon-VilleurbanneFranceFrance
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Since 02009FranceFrance France 28 games
1 As of August 6, 2014

Alexis Ajinça (born May 6, 1988 in Saint-Étienne , France ) is a French basketball player who was most recently under contract with the French first division club ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne .

Career

Ajinça ​​began his career with Élan Béarnais Pau-Lacq-Orthez before moving to Hyères-Toulon Var Basket in 2007 . In 2008 he was selected 20th in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Bobcats . In Charlotte he received little playing time and was often sent to the training teams , Sioux Falls Skyforce and Maine Red Claws , in the D-League . The 2010-11 season he played with both the Dallas Mavericks and the Toronto Raptors . He returned to France in the summer of 2011 and played again for Hyères-Toulon and Strasbourg IG . With the Alsatians, Ajinça ​​reached the final series of the French championship in 2013. On December 20 of the same year, he returned to the NBA and signed with the New Orleans Pelicans . He achieved the highest point average of his time in New Orleans in the 2014/15 season when he scored 6.5 points per game.

He missed the start of the 2017/18 game year because of knee problems that made an operation necessary in December 2017. Due to the intervention, Ajinça ​​missed the entire game year. In the run-up to the 2018/19 season, he was transferred from New Orleans to the Los Angeles Clippers , but immediately removed from the squad there in mid-October 2018. At the beginning of 2019 he signed a contract with the French first division club ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne . At the beginning of March 2019, Ajinca and ASVEL split again after the player and coach Zvezdan Mitrovic clashed.

National team

Ajinça ​​played for the French national team from 2009 . With this he won the European Basketball Championship in Slovenia in 2013 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the international matches ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.ffbb.com
  2. ↑ Pelicans sign center Alexis Ajinca. In: nba.com. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alexis Ajinca Stats. In: basketball-reference.com. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Blessé, Alexis Ajinca ne jouera pas cette season. In: lequipe.fr. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Clippers' Alexis Ajinca: Dealt to Clippers, will be waived. In: CBS Sports. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ RMC SPORT: NBA: Alexis Ajinça ​​cédé aux Clippers, puis coupé. Retrieved February 10, 2019 (French).
  7. ↑ Alexis Ajinça ​​a signé avec l'Asvel. In: Le Progress. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jeep Elite: Alexis Ajinça ​​quitte l'ASVEL. Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ajinça, Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Etienne , France