Nicolas Batum (; born December 14, 1988)
is a French professional

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player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the

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. He is also a member of the French national team and earned a silver medal in the

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in Tokyo.

Early life

His father, Richard, of Cameroonian origin, was a professional basketball player in France. Richard died during a game in 1991 after suffering an

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. Nicolas, at only 2 1/2 years old, and his mother were in the crowd to witness Richard’s death.

Recruiting

Batum delivered an impressive performance2007 Nike Hoops Summit recap, ''usabasketball.com''
/ref> at the 2007 Nike Hoop Summit2007 Nike Hoop Summit, ''usabasketball.com''
/ref> scoring 23 points (9/13 FG, 3/5 for 3 pointers) in 28 minutes. He also grabbed four rebounds and recorded four steals. As a youngster, Nicolas Batum was considered one of the most talented young players in Europe, as he was ranked #17 among international players born in 1988, by the scouting website DraftExpress.com at the time he entered the 2008 NBA draft."Nicolas Batum,"
DraftExpress.com.

Professional career

Le Mans Sarthe (2006–2008)

Batum was part of the junior French national team that won the

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. He was named the MVP of the

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, as France won the gold medal at that tournament. In 2006, Batum was named the most valuable player of the Under-18

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, Germany, as part of the tournament-winning French national team. Batum averaged 19 points, over 5 rebounds, and over 2 steals per game, during the seven game tournament. Nicolas batum tournoi douai 2007 06 10

While playing for

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, Batum averaged 3.4 points (65.9% FG), 2.5 rebounds, 0.5 assist per game in 13 minutes for the 2006–2007

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season,Nicolas Batum statistics in the French League, ''lequipe.fr''
/ref> and 12.3 points (52.3%), 5.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game in 28 minutes for the 2007–2008 season.

Portland Trail Blazers (2008–2011)

Upon being selected with the 25th pick in the 2008 NBA draft by the

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, Batum was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for the rights to

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and

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. After coming off the bench for the first three games of his NBA career, Batum moved into the starting lineup in place of

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in Portland's fourth game of the 2008–09 season, a 103–96 loss to the Utah Jazz. On March 13, 2009, Batum recorded a season-high 20 points to go along with a clutch three-pointer with 29.9 seconds left, en route to a 109–100 victory over the New Jersey Nets. Batum missed the first 45 games of the 2009–10 season due to torn cartilage in his right shoulder. He played in his first game of the season on January 25, 2010. Batum scored more than 30 points for the first time with a 31-point performance (including 7 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals) on February 27, 2010 against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

SLUC Nancy (2011)

In August 2011, during the 2011 NBA lockout, he signed a one-year contract with

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in French Basketball League which was valid until the NBA lockout ended.

Return to Portland (2011–2015)

Batum returned to Portland after the lockout ended. On June 25, 2012, the Portland Trail Blazers extended a qualifying offer to Batum, making him a restricted free agent. Less than three weeks later Batum signed a $46 million/4 year offer sheet with the Minnesota Timberwolves. On July 18, 2012, the Trail Blazers elected to match the Timberwolves' offer, signing Batum to the team through the 2015–16 campaign. On November 16, 2012, Batum tied a career-high of 35 points in a 119–117 overtime win against the Houston Rockets. This was followed exactly one month later by a game in which Batum recorded the 15th "

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" in the NBA since the 1985–86 season, and the first since Andrei Kirilenko in January 2006. In this effort Batum scored 11 points while racking up 10 assists, 5 rebounds, 5 blocks and 5 steals in a 95–94 win against the New Orleans Hornets. On January 21, 2013, Batum recorded his first triple-double in a 98–95 loss to the

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, scoring 12 points and adding 10 rebounds, and 11 assists, in addition to 3 steals and 2 blocks. Batum had a career year in

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, as he finished with career-highs in nearly every statistic. His biggest improvement was his passing; he averaged 4.9 assists, more than triple his previous career-high (1.5 assists per game during the 2010–11 season).

Charlotte Hornets (2015–2020)

On June 24, 2015, Batum was traded to the

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in exchange for

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and

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. On August 1, 2015, Batum played for Team Africa at the 2015 NBA Africa exhibition game. He made his debut for the Hornets in the team's season opener against the Miami Heat on October 28, recording 9 points and 6 rebounds in a 104–94 loss. On November 15, he scored a season-high 33 points in a 106–94 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. The following day, he was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, November 9 through Sunday, November 15. It was the first career Player of the Week award for Batum, who led the Hornets to a 3–1 record on the week. On December 9, he recorded his fifth career triple-double with 10 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in a 99–81 win over the Miami Heat. In early January, he missed four games with a right toe injury. Later that month, he missed three more games with the same injury. On March 29, he recorded his second triple-double of the season with 19 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists in a 100–85 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. On April 20, Batum's first season with the Hornets came to an end after he suffered another injury, this time a sprained left ankle in Game 2 of the Hornets' first-round playoff series with the Miami Heat. On July 7, 2016, Batum re-signed with the Hornets on a five-year, $120 million contract. On December 23, 2016, he recorded his first triple-double of the season with 20 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a 103–91 win over the Chicago Bulls. On October 5, 2017, Batum was ruled out for six to eight weeks with a tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow. Batum made his season debut on November 15, 2017, scoring 16 points in 32 minutes as a starter in a 115–107 loss to the

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. A week later, Batum left the Hornets' game against the

in the second quarter with a left elbow contusion and did not return. On January 31, 2018, he had 10 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a 123–110 win over the Atlanta Hawks. On March 10, 2018, he recorded 29 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in a 122–115 win over the

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. Five days later, he recorded a career-high 16 assists to go with 10 points and 10 rebounds in a 129–117 win over the Hawks. On October 24, 2019, Batum was sidelined for two to three weeks due to an avulsion fracture on the third finger of his left hand. Batum found out he was waived by the Hornets, on Twitter, on November 29, 2020.

Los Angeles Clippers (2020–present)

On December 1, 2020, after clearing waivers, Batum signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. On August 13, 2021, Batum re-signed with the Clippers. On July 6, 2022, Batum re-signed with the Clippers on a two-year deal.

Player profile

Lanky and agile, Batum is regarded as a highly skilled defensive player and one of the NBA's best executors of the

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.Joe Freeman, "A Lifelong Fondness for Rejection: Nicolas Batum's Signature Chase-Down Block Has Its Roots in his Youthful Appreciation of an All-Star's Prowess," ''The Oregonian,'' March 27, 2013, pp. D1, D4. Growing up in Pont-l'Évêque,

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, the lanky Batum was among the tallest boys of his age group and began his basketball career as a center. Inspiration had been drawn from NBA shot-blocking specialist

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, known for theatrically wagging his finger after rejections — an affectation which Batum emulated. Batum noted in a 2013 interview with the Portland ''Oregonian'' that, as he got older, he was moved from the

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to the wing, where he was no longer able to make the face-up block, a signature component of his game. "I couldn't block it like I used to when I played inside, so when I would see a guy going down the court on a fast break, I used to run behind him and get the block". The chase-down block thus became a fundamental part of Batum's game and was a skill brought with him to the NBA. Through March 2013, only two players in the 2012–13 season who did not play center or power forward had performed more blocks than Batum —

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and

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. On May 31, 2021, Batum started for Los Angeles Clippers as a center of the lineup against

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in game four of the 2021 NBA playoffs.

National team career

2012 Summer Olympics

Batum played for the senior men's French national basketball team at the

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. Late in a 66–59 quarterfinal loss to

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, a frustrated Batum punched Spanish player Juan Carlos Navarro in the groin. After the game, Batum said, "I wanted to give him a good reason to flop." Batum later apologized on

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, writing, "I showed a bad image of France and myself. and the city of Portland Oregon. Congrats to team Spain."

2014 FIBA World Cup

Batum was a member of the French national team that finished third-place in the

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, becoming the first French team to win a medal in a

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competition. In the final two games he averaged 31.0 points and was subsequently named to the all-tournament team.

2020 Summer Olympics

Batum blocked Klemen Prepelič at the last second of the

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giving victory to

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. France eventually lost the

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82–87 to the

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stated that Batum's game-saving play was one of the best blocks he had ever seen. His block was ranked as one of the unforgettable moments of the 2020 Summer Olympics.

French national team individual awards and honors

: (2014) * FIBA EuroBasket: (2013) * FIBA EuroBasket: (2011) *

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* FIBA Under-19 World Cup: 2007 *

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: 2014 * FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship MVP: 2006 * FIBA Europe Under-18 All-Tournament Team: 2006

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

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, 82 , , 82 , , 36.0 , , .465 , , .361 , , .803 , , 7.5 , , 5.1 , , .9 , , .7 , , 13.0 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;",

, 71 , , 71 , , 33.5 , , .400 , , .324 , , .857 , , 5.9 , , 4.8 , , 1.1 , , .6 , , 9.4 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;",

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, 77 , , 77 , , 34.0 , , .403 , , .333 , , .856 , , 6.2 , , 5.9 , , 1.1 , , .4 , , 15.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;",

, 64 , , 64 , , 31.0 , , .415 , , .336 , , .831 , , 4.8 , , 5.5 , , 1.0 , , .4 , , 11.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;",

, 75 , , 72 , , 31.4 , , .450 , , .389 , , .865 , , 5.2 , , 3.3 , , .9 , , .6 , , 9.3 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;",

, 22 , , 3 , , 23.0 , , .346 , , .286 , , .900 , , 4.5 , , 3.0 , , .8 , , .4 , , 3.6 , - , style="text-align:left;", , style="text-align:left;",

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, 59 , , 54 , , 24.8 , , .463 , , .400 , , .658 , , 4.3 , , 1.7 , , 1.0 , , .7 , , 8.3 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:center;" colspan="2", Career , 915 , , 806 , , 30.6 , , .436 , , .363 , , .837 , , 5.1 , , 3.5 , , 1.0 , , .6 , , 11.1

Playoffs

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, 11 , , 11 , , 41.7 , , .472 , , .350 , , .800 , , 7.6 , , 4.8 , , 1.3 , , .5 , , 15.2 , - , style="text-align:left;",

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, 5 , , 5 , , 41.8 , , .343 , , .333 , , .769 , , 8.6 , , 5.2 , , .2 , , .2 , , 14.2 , - , style="text-align:left;",

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EuroLeague

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Personal life

His father, Richard, of Cameroonian origin, was a professional basketball player in France. Richard died during a game in 1991 after suffering an

. Nicolas, at only 2 1/2 years old, and his mother were in the crowd to witness Richard’s death. Batum has a younger sister named Pauline. In March 2017, Batum became a shareholder in Infinity Nine Sports, the company owned by Tony Parker, which runs French basketball club

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, and took over the position as director of basketball operations at ASVEL.

References

External links

Nicolas Batum
at euroleague.net

at fiba.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Batum, Nicolas 1988 births Living people 2010 FIBA World Championship players 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup players 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup players Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Black French sportspeople Charlotte Hornets players French expatriate basketball people in the United States French men's basketball players French sportspeople of Cameroonian descent Houston Rockets draft picks Le Mans Sarthe Basket players Los Angeles Clippers players Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics National Basketball Association players from France Olympic basketball players of France Olympic medalists in basketball Olympic silver medalists for France People from Lisieux Portland Trail Blazers players Shooting guards SLUC Nancy Basket players Small forwards Sportspeople from Calvados (department)

Early life

Recruiting

Professional career

Le Mans Sarthe (2006–2008)

Portland Trail Blazers (2008–2011)

SLUC Nancy (2011)

Return to Portland (2011–2015)

Charlotte Hornets (2015–2020)

Los Angeles Clippers (2020–present)

Player profile

National team career

2012 Summer Olympics

2014 FIBA World Cup

2020 Summer Olympics

French national team individual awards and honors

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

Playoffs

EuroLeague

Personal life

See also

References

External links