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 Szaniel. 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.

ES Avignon Basket

Notable players

Didier Dobbels

Alain Larrouquis

Philip Szanyiel

Franck Cazalon

Antoine Cerase

Vince Taylor

Horace Wyatt

Tom Snyder

Pat Burtey

Bernard Van den Broeck

Emmanuel Schmitt

References

Basketball teams in France

ES Avignon Basket