Mickaël Gelabale

Mickaël Gelabale
Player information
birthday	22nd May 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Pointe-Noire , France
size	201 cm
position	Small forward / power forward
NBA draft	2005 , 48th Pick, Seattle SuperSonics
Club information
society	Élan Sportif Chalonnais
league	LNB Pro A
Clubs as active
2001–2004 Cholet Basket 2004–2006 Real Madrid 2006–2008 Seattle SuperSonics 2008 Idaho Stampede ( NBADL ) 2008 Seattle SuperSonics 2009 Los Angeles D-Fenders (NBADL) 2009–2010 Cholet Basket 2010–2011 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2011–2012 BK Chimki 2012 KK Cedevita 2012–2013 Valencia BC 2013 Minnesota Timberwolves 2013–2014 BK Chimki 2014–2015 Strasbourg IG 2015 Limoges CSP 2015–2017 Le Mans Sarthe Basket Since 2017 Élan Sportif Chalonnais 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00
National team
2005-2016	France	147 games

Mickaël Gelabale medal table
Basketball (men)
France
European Championship
bronze	2005 Serbia and Montenegro
silver	2011 Lithuania
gold	2013 Slovenia

Mickaël Gelabale (born May 22, 1983 in Pointe-Noire , Guadeloupe ) is a French basketball player .

Career

Gelabale began playing basketball in his homeland, the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe. Ronny Turiaf was one of his youth team- mates . In 1999 he moved to the youth department of Cholet Basket , in the 2001/02 season he made his debut in Cholet 's men's team in the French first division. In the 2003/04 season he scored 10.4 points and 4.6 rebounds per game for Cholet and was then committed by Real Madrid.

After winning the Spanish championship with Real Madrid in 2005, Gelabale was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the subsequent NBA draft . In late summer 2005 he also won the bronze medal with the French national team at the European Championship finals . He stayed in Madrid for another year and only moved to the NBA after the 2006 World Basketball Championship in Japan , where he was eliminated with France in the quarter-finals against eventual runners-up Greece and ended up in fifth place.

At the Sonics in the NBA, he did not get beyond the role of a supplementary player in the following two seasons and was temporarily given up in February 2008 in the lower class NBA D-League . After returning to the Sonics in March 2008, Gelabale tore a cruciate ligament in his right knee.

After attempting a comeback in March 2009 in the D-League in Los Angeles , Gelabale finally left the United States and returned to Cholet Basket, where he began his professional career. With this club he won the French championship, where he was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final game. After a disappointing running 2010 World Cup , where in the second round against the hosts Turkey was eliminated, he transferred to league rivals and champions from ASVEL Villeurbanne where he was the French MVP of the 2010/11 season in the LNB Pro A was excellent. ASVEL itself was eliminated in the semi-final play-offs for the French championship.

Before the 2011 European Championships , Gelabale signed a contract with the Belgian champion Spirou BC Charleroi . After an ankle injury at the European Championship finals, in which he won the silver medal with the French national team , he was not fit in time, so the contract with the club participating in the ULEB Euroleague 2011/12 was terminated . In December 2011, he then signed a contract with the Russian runner-up BK Chimki, with whom he won the ULEB Eurocup in 2012.

After further positions at KK Cedevita and Valencia BC , he signed a contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves in January 2013 , for which he was active until the end of the season. Gelabale then returned to Khimki. In September 2013 Gelabale became European champions for the first time with France .

In 2014 he returned to France and played for different clubs in the following years. With Limoges CSP , which he joined in January 2015, he became French champion in 2015. At the end of June 2016, he ended his national team career. He played 147 full internationals for France.

Web links

• Eurocup: Gelabale, Mickael - player profile on the ULEB website (English)
• Mickael Gelabale - player profile on NBA.com
• Mickael Gelabale - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Tous les résultats des équipes de France: Mickaël (French) - Overview of missions in the French national team (French)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Mickael GELABALE (FRA) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.cholet-basket.com/personne/mickael-gelabale
2. ↑ https://www.lnb.fr/fr/pro-a/statistiques-joueur-40.html?player=A65099
3. ^ NBA Development League: 2007-08 Transactions. (No longer available online.) NBA , archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on February 17, 2012 (English). 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.  
4. ↑ Sonics' reserve Mickael Gelabale out for season with torn ACL. The Seattle Times , March 28, 2008, accessed February 9, 2010 . 
5. ^ NBA Development League: 2008-09 Transactions - March 25: LOS ANGELES. (No longer available online.) NBA , archived from the original on December 19, 2015 ; accessed on February 17, 2012 (English). 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.  
6. ↑ Gelabale To Miss Rest Of Round 2 / EuroBasket 2011. FIBA Europe , September 8, 2011, accessed on February 17, 2012 (English). 
7. ↑ BC KHIMKI lands veteran forward Gelabale. (No longer available online.) ULEB , December 13, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 17, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Khimki, Gelabale join forces a second time. (No longer available online.) ULEB , July 31, 2013, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; accessed on September 22, 2013 (English). 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.  
9. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/Actualites/Gelabale-a-limoges/526061
10. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/Actualites/Les-plus-de-mickael-gelabale-limoges/568360
11. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/Actualites/Equipe-de-france-la-der-pour-gelabale-et-pietrus/700637
12. ↑ https://www.ffbb.com/deux-legende-celebrees-sur-leurs-terres