Evan Fournier

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Basketball player
Evan Fournier
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Player information
Full name Evan Mehdi Fournier
birthday 29th October 1992 (age 27)
place of birth Saint-Maurice , France
size 201 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
High school INSEP
NBA draft 2012 , 20th pick, Denver Nuggets
Club information
society Orlando Magic
league NBA
Jersey number 10
Clubs as active
2009–2010 JSF Nanterre 2010–2012 Poitiers Basket 86 2012–2014 Denver Nuggets Since 2014 Orlando MagicFranceFrance
FranceFrance
United StatesUnited States
0United StatesUnited States
National team 1
Since 02013FranceFrance France 21 games
1 As of January 9, 2015

Evan Mehdi Fournier (born October 29, 1992 in Saint-Maurice , France ) is a French basketball player who has been under contract with the Orlando Magic in the NBA since 2014 .

Career

Fournier was trained from 2007 to 2009 at the French training center for young talent INSEP . He played for the French second division JSF Nanterre in the 2009/10 season , followed by two years with the first division Poitiers Basket 86 . In the 2011/12 season he triumphed for Poitiers in 30 league games with an average of 14.0 per encounter. In 2011 and 2012 he was named the best young player of the year in France.

In the 2012 NBA draft , Fournier was selected by the Denver Nuggets , for whom he played for two years and scored an average of 7.4 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per encounter in 114 games.

On June 26, 2014 Fournier with the draft rights to Roy Devyn Marble for Arron Afflalo was swapped to the Orlando Magic .

National team

Fournier took part in the 2011 U-20 European Championship with the French U-20 national team. He won the bronze medal.

With the national team, Fournier finished third at the 2014 World Basketball Championships in Spain and at the 2015 European Championship. At the 2019 World Cup, he won bronze with France and was the best point collector of his team during the tournament (19.8 points / game).

Personal

Fournier's father François was a French judo champion , and his Algerian- born mother Meriem was also a judoka. The two met in the early 1980s at the French training center for young talent, Insep.

Web links

Commons : Evan Fournier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the international matches (French)
  2. ↑ TEAM FRANCE BASKET. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Trophées LNB: Kunter et Fournier récompensés
  4. ^ Magic Trade Afflalo; Acquire Fournier and Marble
  5. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/Actualites/Mondial-evan-fournier-terriblement-decu-par-la-medaille-de-bronze/1059220
  6. ↑ http://www.fiba.basketball/fr/basketballworldcup/2019/team/France
  7. ↑ Le 28 août 2012 at 07:00: L'enfant de Charenton va jouer en NBA August 28, 2012, accessed July 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Le palmarès du judoka FOURNIER François: résultats, videos, photos. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
  9. ^ Evan Fournier, l'Afrique au coeur - Basket - NBA. Retrieved July 15, 2019 (French).
  10. ↑ Le 28 août 2012 at 07:00: L'enfant de Charenton va jouer en NBA August 28, 2012, accessed July 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fournier, Evan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fournier, Evan Mehdi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Maurice , France