Nicolas Batum

Nicolas Batum
Player information
Nickname	Nic
birthday	December 14, 1988
place of birth	Lisieux , France
size	203 cm
position	Small Forward / Shooting Guard
NBA draft	2008 , 25th Pick , Houston Rockets
Club information
society	Charlotte Hornets
league	NBA
Jersey number	5
Clubs as active
2005–2008 Le Mans Sarthe Basket 2008–2015 Portland Trail Blazers 2011 → SLUC Nancy Since 2015 Charlotte Hornets 00000 00
National team 1
Since 200900	France	114 games
1 As of September 29, 2015

Nicolas Batum (born December 14, 1988 in Lisieux ) is a French basketball player who currently plays in the NBA on the position of small forward for the Charlotte Hornets .

career

The 2.03 m tall small forward started his professional career in 2005 with the team of Le Mans Sarthe Basket , in the French LNB Pro A plays. In the 2005/06 season was able to win the French championship straight away . In the following two years he took part in the ULEB Euroleague . There he was able to achieve an average of 8.5 points and 3.5 rebounds in his 13 missions in the 2007/08 season .

In the draft process of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Houston Rockets secured the rights to the French, but then gave them to the Portland Trail Blazers . On July 22, 2008, Batum signed a contract with the Portland Trail Blazers and moved to the NBA. Already in the first season he moved up to the starting five of the team. In his second year in the NBA, he was out for a long time due to a shoulder injury that resulted in an operation and therefore only played 37 main round games, in which he almost doubled his points average compared to his first year in the North American league.

For the 2011/12 season, Batum signed a contract with SLUC Nancy in his native France. Due to the existing lockout and the associated failure of game operations, he moved to other leagues like many other NBA players. After the lockout ended, Batum returned to the Blazers.

On June 24, 2015, Batum moved to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Gerald Henderson and Noah Vonleh . In the first two years in Charlotte he recorded the best points of his previous NBA time before the numbers fell in the 2017/18 game year and in the 2018/19 season with 9.3 points per match, the second worst value of his previous NBA- Career achieved.

National team

Batum already played in the U16 and U18 national teams of his country. In 2006 he was able to win the gold medal with the French junior selection at the U-18 basketball European championship and he was voted the best player of the tournament ( MVP ) of the tournament. In the same year he also won the Albert Schweitzer tournament , also as the MVP of the competition.

With the French senior team , Batum took part in the European Championships in 2009 , 2011 , 2013 and 2015 and the 2010 World Cup.

While he failed in the final with the national team at the 2011 European Championships , he became European champion in 2013 . In the final against Lithuania he was the French best thrower with 17 points. At the 2014 Basketball World Cup , Batum won the bronze medal with France, which he repeated in 2019.

Achievements and Awards

society

• French champion : 2006
• Winner of the Semaine des Ace 2006

National team

• . Place at the 2011 European Basketball Championships in Lithuania
• . 3rd place at the 2013 European Basketball Championships in Slovenia
• . 1st place at the 2014 Basketball World Cup in Spain
• . 1st place at the 2015 European Basketball Championship
• . Place at the Basketball World Cup 2019

Entrepreneurial activity

In late March 2017, Batum joined Tony Parker's company, Infinity Nine Sports, as a shareholder . Among other things, the company operates the French basketball club ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne . Batum also took over the position of sporting director at ASVEL.

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Batum  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Nicolas Batum - player profile on NBA.com
• Nicolas Batum - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Euro League profile (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International match statistics
2. ^ Ajinca 20e, Batum 25e. June 27, 2008, accessed June 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Tim Daniels: Nicolas Batum Out 8-12 Weeks with Elbow Injury. Retrieved June 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Nicolas Batum. Retrieved June 16, 2019 . 
5. ↑ France is AST Champion 2006 Report on the AST website
6. ↑ https://www.lequipe.fr/Basket/Actualites/Nicolas-batum-apres-l-obtention-de-la-medaille-de-bronze-j-espere-qu-on-a-plu-au-peuple -francais / 1059218
7. ↑ Nicolas BATUM, new actionnaire de l'ASVEL Basket - Asvel Basket . In: Asvel Basket . March 29, 2017 ( asvelbasket.com [accessed March 31, 2017]).