| Matthew Strazel | |
| Position: | Point guard |
| Height M: | 1.82 |
| Weight Kg: | 81 |
| Team: | AS Monaco |
| League: | LNB Pro A EuroLeague |
| Number: | 32 |
| Birth Date: | 2002 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Bourg-la-Reine, France |
| Career Start: | 2017 |
| Years1: | 2019–2022 |
| Team1: | ASVEL |
| Years2: | 2022–present |
| Team2: | AS Monaco |
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Matthew Nelson Strazel (born 5 August 2002) is a French professional basketball player for AS Monaco of the LNB Pro A and EuroLeague. He plays for the France national team as well, and played at the 2024 Olympics.
Strazel was born in Bourg-la-Reine, in the southern suburbs of Paris, into a family with roots in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe.[1] He signed a contract to join the youth sections of ASVEL after starting his career with its partner club, Marne-la-Vallée.[2] In the 2017–18 season, he split time between the club's under-18 team and with Espoirs Lyon in LNB Espoirs, the French under-21 league, where he came off the bench.[3] In 2018–19, he became a regular Espoirs player, averaging 14.5 points, 4.7 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game.[4] On 6 May 2019, Strazel scored 44 points for the U18 ASVEL in a 110–100 loss to U18 JL Bourg during the semifinals of the French U18 Championship.[5]
On 31 July 2019, when he was 16 years old, Strazel signed his first professional contract with ASVEL.[6] He made his senior debut on 6 October, playing five minutes in an 85–76 win over Cholet.[7] On 29 October, Strazel made his EuroLeague debut, scoring nine points with three three-pointers in 13 minutes to help defeat Baskonia, 66–63.[8] On 10 March 2020, he scored a season-high 17 points in a 95–83 victory over Monaco.[9] On 10 June 2020, Strazel signed a contract extension with the team until 2025,[10] but left in 2022, when signing a three-year deal with AS Monaco on June 21, 2022.[11]
Strazel was part of the France national team in the 2024 Olympics. He hit a crucial four-point play in the final minutes of the group stage game against Japan, which brought the game to overtime in which France managed to win.[12] [13]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019-20| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="3"| ASVEL| 16 || 2 || 13.9 || .396 || .414 || .769 || .7 || 1.6 || .2 || || 4.0 || 2.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020-21| 20 || 3 || 13.1 || .355 || .324 || .850 || 1.1 || 1.4 || .2 || || 3.6 || 2.6|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021-22| 30 || 1 || 15.3 || .305 || .327 || .826 || .7 || 1.9 || .3 || || 3.4 || 2.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2022-23| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"| Monaco| 25 || 3 || 8.1 || .440 || .320 || .667 || .2 || .6 || .2 || || 2.5 || 1.0|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023-24| 17 || 11 || 13.1 || .387 || .308 || .792 || .6 || 1.8 || .5 || || 4.4 || 4.9|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career| 108 || 20 || 12.7 || .364 || .337 || .789 || .7 || 1.4 || .3 || || 3.5 || 2.5
| Year | Team | League | ||||||||||
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| 14 | 11.4 | .324 | .350 | .882 | .6 | 2.0 | .6 | 3.1 | ||||
| 34 | 17.1 | .404 | .337 | .836 | .9 | 2.2 | .4 | .0 | 5.5 | |||
| 37 | 17.1 | .403 | .373 | .773 | 1.1 | 2.1 | .4 | .0 | 5.3 | |||
| 42 | 21.3 | .402 | .326 | .771 | 1.8 | 3.2 | .5 | .0 | 7.4 | |||
| 42 | 21.3 | .402 | .326 | .771 | 1.8 | 3.2 | .5 | .0 | 7.4External links |