Jim Bilba

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Basketball player
Jim Bilba
Player information
Nickname trampoline
birthday April 17, 1968
place of birth Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe , France
size 198 cm
position Power forward
Clubs as active
1988–1992 Cholet Basket 1992–1996 Limoges CSP 1996–2001 ASVEL 2001–2002 AEK Athens 2002–2002 TAU Vitoria 2002–2007 Cholet BasketFranceFrance
FranceFrance
FranceFrance
GreeceGreece
SpainSpain
FranceFrance
National team
1989-2001 FranceFrance France 166 games
Clubs as coaches
2008–2014 Cholet Basket 2014–2017 Limoges CSPFranceFrance
FranceFrance
Jim Bilba medal table

Basketball (men)

France
Olympic games
silver 2000 Sydney

Jim Ruddy Anicet Bilba (born April 17, 1968 in Pointe-à-Pitre ), called trampoline , is a former French basketball player and captain of the French national team . He won the silver medal with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics . Most recently he worked as an assistant trainer at Limoges CSP .

Career as a player

In 1986 Bilba moved from his home island of Guadeloupe to Cholet Basket . With Cholet he took his first steps on the European stage. Bilba made his first international experience in 1988/89 in the European Cup Winners' Cup. Bilba was considered very athletic, but at the same time too small and skinny for fourth position, but at the beginning of his career in Cholet he looked a lot from his teammate, the American Graylin Warner , who was also skinny, but still big Played success in the French league.

In 1992 Bilba moved to Limoges. Coach Božidar Maljković signed him, among other things, because of his strengths in defense. With Limoges he surprisingly won the European Cup in 1993 and shortly afterwards the French championship title. In the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup, he defeated Limoges Real Madrid with Arvydas Sabonis . He went with his team as an outsider in the final against Benetton Treviso with Toni Kukoč . Limoges won the title: Bilba was on the field for 39 minutes in the final, making it Limoges' player with the most playing time, scoring 15 points against Treviso. In the following year Bilba won the French championship again with Limoges, in 1995 he reached the semi-finals of the national championship cup with Limoges, where they failed at Real Madrid.

At the beginning of the 1996/97 season he moved to ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne. In his first season he reached the semi-finals of the European Cup with ASVEL, where it was the last stop against FC Barcelona . During his years in Villeurbanne, he and his team made it to the final of the French championship four times, but never won the title. During this time he also had successes in the national team, in which Bilba was appointed captain in 1996 and with which he won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Bilba was a top European player during his strongest years in defense and was nicknamed the trampoline for his jumping ability.

After the victorious French Cup final in 2001, Bilba moved to Greece for AEK Athens. Here, too, he won the Greek championship in his first year, but left the club due to economic problems.

After a one-month contract with the Spanish club Tau Vitoria, he returned to Cholet Basket. He ended his career in 2007.

Career as a coach

From 2008 to 2014 Bilba was an assistant coach at Cholet Basket . For the 2014/15 season he moved to league competitor Limoges CSP , also as an assistant coach. He stayed in Limoges until 2017 and then retired from coaching. In 2018 he worked in the administration of the city of Cholet for sports matters.

Achievements and Awards

Club (as a player)

Club (as coach)

National team

Personal awards

  • French Championship MVP: 1998, 2001
  • best defender in France: 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/8214/sid/2235/tid/282/tid2//_/2001_European_Championship_for_Men/index.html
  2. ↑ Cholet. L'ex-basketteur Jim Bilba reprend du service! In: ouest-france.fr. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Cup Winners' Cup 1988-89. In: Pearl Basket. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b [France Action] Jim Bilba, l'instant décisif. In: Basket Retro. January 19, 2017, accessed June 15, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ L'Équipe 21: CSP Limoges, le coup parfait. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ # 30ansLNB: Limoges Champion 1993. In: LNB on youtube.com. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  7. ^ Il ya 24 ans, le CSP Limoges devenait champion d'Europe. In: Basket Retro. April 15, 2017, accessed June 15, 2020 (French).
  8. ↑ lingua Sport - Suproleague / Champions Cup (C1) (B). Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ lingua Sport - Suproleague / Champions Cup (C1) (B). Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ lingua Sport - Suproleague / Champions Cup (C1) (B). Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  11. ^ Thibault Bruck: Jim Bilba nommé à la politique sportive de l'Agglomération Choletaise. January 18, 2018, accessed June 15, 2020 (French).
  12. ↑ Qu'est devenu le basketteur Jim Bilba? In: France 3 Pays de la Loire on youtube.com. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bilba, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trampoline (nickname); Bilba, Jim Ruddy Anicet (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Pointe-à-Pitre