{"id":18437,"date":"2025-07-24T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18437\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:54:10","slug":"paris-basketball-brings-in-20-year-old-center-mouhamed-faye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18437\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Basketball brings in 20-year-old center Mouhamed Faye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Eurohoops team \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1849103\/mouhamed-faye-paris-basketball-euroleague\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following a solid season in the Basketball Champions League, it\u2019s now time to progress to the EuroLeague for the 20-year-old Mouhamed Faye.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese athletic freak has officially signed with Paris Basketball, joining Francesco Tabellini\u2019s team to improve his status in European basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was announced on Thursday.\u00a0He marked the ninth completed offseason transfer, following Joel Ayayi, Ismael Bako, Allan Dokossi, Amath M\u2019Baye, Jeremy Morgan, Justin Robinson, Lamar Stevens, and Derek Willis.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Welcome to Paris Mouhamed Faye \ud83d\udda4\u2764\ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>Le Paris Basketball est fier d\u2019annoncer l\u2019arriv\u00e9e dans ses rangs du pivot S\u00e9n\u00e9galais pour s\u00e9curiser la raquette. Des points, des rebonds, des contres, Mouhamed va beaucoup apporter du haut de ses 20 ans \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jmrRfZVoy8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jmrRfZVoy8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paris Basketball (@ParisBasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ParisBasketball\/status\/1948334323481944168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 2024-25 Basketball Champions League campaign, reaching the Quarter-Finals with Reggio Emilia but losing to then-champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/unicaja-malaga\/?lang=en\" title=\"Unicaja\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unicaja<\/a> Malaga, he put up\u00a06.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>This was his first-ever European campaign, as he started picking up some playing time in the 2023-24 season on the red-and-white side, coached by Dimitris Priftis.<\/p>\n<p>Moving for the first time away from Italy, he will find a new project in the French capital, with several members of the team parting ways and entering new chapters elsewhere: TJ Shorts went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/panathinaikos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Panathinaikos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panathinaikos<\/a>, Tyson Ward to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/olympiacos\/?lang=en\" title=\"Olympiacos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olympiacos<\/a>, Collin Malcolm to Hapoel Tel Aviv, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Set to debut in the near future with the Senegalese national team, the Dakar native dominated at the\u00a0FIBA U18 African Championship 2022, averaging\u00a018.2 points and 13.7 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2025-26 season, the promising upstart is expected to make himself available for NBA teams by completing the process to become eligible for the annual draft.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CREDIT: Basketball Champions League<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read all the latest news from the basketball world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Following a solid season in the Basketball Champions League, it\u2019s now time to progress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-18437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}