ES Avignon Basket explained

Entente Sportive Avignon Basket
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Location: Avignon, France
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Entente Sportive Avignon Basket is a French former basketball club that was based in Avignon. Thereafter, it became the Athletic Union Avignon-Le Pontet Basket, which is the leading club in the city, and becoming in 2014, Grand Avignon Sorgues Basket.

History

At the end of the 1976-77 season, ES Avignon rose to the French Division 1, under the leadership of its captain, Antoine Cerase, the American Mike Hopwood, and the great French hope of the time, Philippe Szanyiel. The club competed for 12 seasons in the elite level championship of France, and had a record of 110 wins, 7 draws, and 199 losses in 316 games.[1]

Notable players

Notes and References

  1. http://www.basketarchives.fr/superclassproa.htm Site de Basketarchives.fr, page sur le superclassement de 1ère division