Antoine Diot
No. 8 – ASVEL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Point guard / Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | LNB Pro A EuroLeague | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Bourg-en-Bresse, France | 17 January 1989|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2011 / Undrafted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2004–present | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2007–2012 | Le Mans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Paris-Levallois | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | SIG Strasbourg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015–2019 | Valencia Basket | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019–present | ASVEL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antoine Camille Diot (born 17 January 1989) is a French professional basketball player for ASVEL of the LNB Pro A. Standing at 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in), he plays the point guard position. He also represents the French national basketball team.
Professional career[]
Diot began playing basketball with the youth teams of the French club JL Bourg en Bresse. He then played with Centre Fédéral, in the French 3rd-tier level league, the NM1, from 2004 to 2007. He began his professional career in 2007, with the French 1st-tier level Pro A League club, Le Mans. He moved to the French club Paris-Levallois Basket in 2012.
On 1 July 2013 Diot signed a two-year deal with the French Pro A team Strasbourg IG, with an opt-out clause after the first year.[1] He was voted the French League French Player's MVP in 2014. In June 2014, he opted to remain with the team for one more season.[2] He was voted the French Leaders Cup MVP in 2015.
On 10 July 2015 he signed a two-year contract with the Spanish ACB team Valencia Basket.[3] With Valencia, he won the Spanish League 2016–17 season championship. On 5 July 2017 he signed a two-year contract extension with Valencia.[4]
National team career[]
Diot was a member of the French junior national teams. With France's junior national teams, he played at the following tournaments: the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, where he won a gold medal, the 2005 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, where he won a silver medal, and was named the tournament's MVP, the 2006 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, where he won a gold medal, the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, where he won a bronze medal, the 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, the 2008 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, where he won a silver medal, and was named to the All-Tournament Team.
Diot then became a member of the senior men's French national basketball team. With France's senior national team, he has played at the following major tournaments: the EuroBasket 2009, the EuroBasket 2013, where he won a gold medal, the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, where he won a silver medal, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
French senior national team stats[]
Tournament | GP | PPG | RPG | APG |
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EuroBasket 2009 | 8 | 5.1 | 1.9 | 1.0 |
EuroBasket 2013 | 11 | 4.5 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
2014 World Cup | 9 | 6.9 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
2016 Olympics Qualification | 4 | 4.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
2016 Summer Olympics | 6 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
References[]
- ^ "Strasbourg signs Antoine Diot to a two-year deal". sportando.com. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Antoine Diot reste à la SIG". sigbasket.fr (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Valencia signs Antoine Diot to a two-year contract". sportando.com. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ "Valencia re-signs combo guard Diot". Euroleague.net. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
External links[]
- Antoine Diot at acb.com (in Spanish)
- Antoine Diot at draftexpress.com
- Antoine Diot at eurobasket.com
- Antoine Diot at euroleague.net
- Antoine Diot at fiba.com (archive)
- Antoine Diot at fibaeurope.com
- Antoine Diot at lnb.fr (in French)
- Antoine Diot at the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (in French)
- Antoine Diot at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Antoine Diot on Instagram
- Antoine Diot on Facebook
- 1989 births
- 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- ASVEL Basket players
- Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Centre Fédéral de Basket-ball players
- FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
- French expatriate basketball people in Spain
- French men's basketball players
- Le Mans Sarthe Basket players
- Liga ACB players
- Living people
- Olympic basketball players of France
- Metropolitans 92 players
- People from Bourg-en-Bresse
- Point guards
- Shooting guards
- SIG Basket players
- Sportspeople from Ain
- Valencia Basket players