This weekend witnessed the Leaders Cup 2024.
An event organized by the LNB and which brought together the best of French basketball at the Arena Saint Etienne Métropole.
- Pro B Leaders cup
To reward their excellent start to the season, the JA Vichy players took victory in a match of extreme intensity!
Still trailing with a few minutes to go, they managed to reverse the Momentum and pull off an overtime win over the valiant Champagne basketball team, who fought to the very end.
Nothing could have stopped Sébastien Cape, voted MVP of this final, who was decisive with several long-range shots. He finished the game with 24 points, 11 assists and 32 valuations.
JA Vichy is now crowned winner of the ProB 2024 Leaders Cup with a score of 97-90, and has already booked its ticket for the Pro B Playoffs.
- Betclic Elite Leaders cup
The Betclic Elite Leaders Cup featured a new and unexpected final!
It was a 100% Parisian final.
On one side, the players from Nanterre 92 who successively ousted the defending champions, LDLC ASVEL, then JL Bourg, and on the other, the players from Paris Basketball who created a surprise by upsetting the Monegasque ogre.
40 minutes of a crazy final in which the two teams gave blow for blow!
A match crystallized by a top-level duel between the two teams’ playmakers: on one side Justin Bibbins, who scored 20 points, and on the other T.J Shorts II, scorer of 24 points and awarded MVP of the game!
At the end of this unbearable suspense, Paris Basketball won the first trophy in the club’s elite history, 90-85.
Congratulations to all the players who took part in the Leaderscup weekend.
We now wish you a well-deserved rest before the final stretch of this 2023/2024 season.
📸 LNB/ JAV/ Paris Basketball