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Théo Maledon

January 01, 1970

Théo Louis Maledon (born 12 June 2001; pronounced [teo malɛdɔ̃][1]) is a French professional basketball player for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA G League. He plays the point guard position.

Théo Maledon
Maledon with ASVEL in 2018
No. 11 – Sioux Falls Skyforce
PositionPoint guard
LeagueNBA G League
Personal information
Born (2001-06-12) 12 June 2001 (age 22)
Rouen, France
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight175 lb (79 kg)
Career information
NBA draft2020: 2nd round, 34th overall pick
Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers
Playing career2017–present
Career history
2017–2020ASVEL
2020–2022Oklahoma City Thunder
2021–2022→Oklahoma City Blue
2022–2023Charlotte Hornets
2022–2023→Greensboro Swarm
2023–2024Phoenix Suns
2024–presentSioux Falls Skyforce
Career highlights and awards
Stats  at NBA.com
Stats  at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals

Born in Rouen, Maledon played youth basketball for French sports institute INSEP before joining the youth ranks of ASVEL at age 16. One year later, at the senior level, he became the youngest LNB All-Star in history and won the LNB Pro A Best Young Player award. He helped ASVEL win Pro A and French Cup titles, while being named French Cup Final Most Valuable Player (MVP).

At the youth international level, Maledon won a gold medal with France at the 2016 FIBA U16 European Championship and a silver medal at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 World Cup. He has also played for the senior national team.

Early life and career edit

Maledon was born on 12 June 2001 in Rouen in Normandy, France.[2] He is of Guadeloupean descent.[3] At age three, Maledon began playing basketball with his local club Mesnil-Esnard in Seine-Maritime.[4] After reaching the under-11 age group, he moved to SPO Rouen, the most prominent club in his area.[5] In 2015, at age 14, Maledon joined the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP), a sports institute in Paris, on a scholarship.[6][7] In the 2015–16 season, he played three games for INSEP-affiliated team Centre Fédéral de Basket-ball in the Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1), the amateur third-tier division of French basketball, and two games for INSEP's under-18 team in the Adidas Next Generation Tournament (ANGT).[8]

In 2016–17, Maledon became a regular starter with Centre Fédéral in the NM1, where he averaged 8.2 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 2.7 assists in 25.6 minutes per game.[9] He scored a season-best 20 points, along with five rebounds and four assists, in a 23 April 2017 loss to Union Tarbes-Lourdes Pyrénées [fr].[10] In the same month, Maledon took part in the Jordan Brand Classic Global Showcase at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where he scored 15 points.[11]

Professional career edit

ASVEL (2017–2020) edit

2017–18 season edit

On 16 June 2017, Maledon joined the junior team of LNB Pro A club ASVEL that played in the LNB Espoirs [fr], the French U21 league.[6] In his season debut on 24 September 2017, he recorded 10 points and five assists in a 71–61 win over Espoirs Limoges.[12] Maledon made his Pro A debut for the senior team on 30 September at age 16, playing one minute versus Cholet.[13] He became the second youngest debutant in club history.[14] On 17 October, he made his first appearance in the EuroCup against ratiopharm Ulm.[15] In January 2018, Maledon played for ASVEL's under-18 team at the ANGT in L'Hospitalet.[9] He recorded 35 points and 11 assists on 7 January to help defeat the junior team of Gran Canaria in his final game in the tournament.[16] On 12 May 2018, Maledon scored 26 points against Espoirs Monaco, his season-high in the LNB Espoirs.[17] Through 33 Espoirs games, he averaged 15.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 4.9 assists per game.[9] During summer 2018, he graduated high school one year in advance with major in science.[18]

2018–19 season edit

 
Maledon (left) defends Le Portel's Benoît Mangin in December 2018.

On 13 August 2018, Maledon signed his first professional contract, agreeing to remain with ASVEL for three years.[19] In the 2018–19 season, he assumed a greater role for the senior team and frequently made its starting lineup.[9] On 6 October, Maledon recorded 15 points, four rebounds, and four assists, making six of seven field goal attempts, in an 88–64 victory over Fos Provence.[20] His ranking [fr] of 22 in the game was the most by a Pro A player under age 18 since Tony Parker recorded a ranking of 24 against BCM Gravelines in 1999.[21][22] On 3 November, Maledon recorded a career-high 16 points, four rebounds, and two steals against JDA Dijon.[23] He eclipsed his career high on 18 November versus Le Mans Sarthe, when he recorded 20 points, four assists, and two steals.[24]

On 18 December 2018, against Zenit Saint Petersburg, Maledon had 13 points, along with seven rebounds and three assists, for his best scoring effort in the EuroCup.[25] He recorded 18 points, five assists, two steals, and a career-best ranking of 26, against Levallois on 26 December.[26] Maledon played in the LNB All-Star Game on 29 December, and at age 17 and a half, became the youngest All-Star since the event was created in 1987.[27] On 12 May 2019, he scored a team-high 13 points in a 70–61 win over Le Mans in the French Cup championship and was named Final MVP.[28] He was the youngest to ever win this award at age 17. Maledon was named LNB Pro A Best Young Player at the end of the season.[29] In June 2019, he helped ASVEL win the Pro A finals over Monaco.[30] In a total of 62 games in the season, Maledon averaged seven points, 2.1 rebounds, and two assists in 17.3 minutes per game.[9]

2019–20 season edit

Entering the 2019–20 season, Maledon was considered the favorite to win the EuroLeague Rising Star award by the league's website.[31] In his season opener, a Pro A win over Limoges on 22 September 2019, he recorded six points and eight assists in 19 minutes.[32] On 4 October, Maledon made his EuroLeague debut, playing nine minutes in a victory over Olympiacos. In his subsequent game, two days later against Cholet, he suffered a shoulder injury that forced him to miss over one month of action.[33] On 17 January 2020, Maledon recorded a career-high 10 assists, along with five points and six rebounds, in a 101–74 loss to Anadolu Efes.[34] One week later, he scored 19 points, his best mark in the EuroLeague, in a 100–88 loss to Panathinaikos.[35] On 14 February, Maledon matched his career high in scoring with 20 points in an 88–59 victory over Metropolitans 92 at the LNB Pro A Leaders Cup semifinals.[36] On 5 April, while the basketball season was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he declared for the 2020 NBA draft.[7] Maledon finished the season averaging 7.3 points, 2.7 assists, and 1.9 rebounds in 17.3 minutes per game, through 46 combined appearances in the EuroLeague, Pro A and Leaders Cup.[9]

Oklahoma City Thunder (2020–2022) edit

Maledon was selected with the 34th overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2020 NBA draft.[37] On 8 December 2020, Maledon's draft rights were traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder,[38] and the next day, he signed a contract.[39]

On September 30, 2022, Maledon was traded, along with Derrick Favors, Ty Jerome, Maurice Harkless, and a future second-round pick, to the Houston Rockets in exchange for David Nwaba, Sterling Brown, Trey Burke, and Marquese Chriss.[40] On October 11, he was waived.[41]

Charlotte Hornets (2022–2023) edit

On 15 October 2022, Maledon signed a two-way contract with the Charlotte Hornets.[42]

On 29 September 2023, Maledon re-signed with the Hornets on another two-way contract,[43] but was waived on 14 December.[44]

Phoenix Suns (2023–2024) edit

On 17 December 2023, Maledon signed a two-way contract with the Phoenix Suns.[45][46] However, he did not make his debut with the team until February 8, 2024, playing in only a minute and 14 seconds left of the Suns' 129–115 win over the Utah Jazz.[47] Maledon then recorded 5 points and one rebound for the Suns six days later on Valentine's Day during nearly 10 minutes of playing time in a 116–100 win over the Detroit Pistons.[48]

Maledon was waived on 4 March 2024 after playing in four games with the Suns.[49]

Sioux Falls Skyforce (2024–present) edit

On 11 March 2024, Maledon joined the Sioux Falls Skyforce.[50]

National team career edit

French junior national team edit

Maledon made his youth debut for France at the 2016 FIBA Under-16 European Championship in Radom, Poland. Through seven games, he averaged 8.4 points, four rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game.[51] Maledon played for the French team at the 2017 FIBA Under-16 European Championship in Podgorica, Montenegro.[52] He averaged 14.6 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game through seven contests, scoring 20 points in the final against Montenegro to help France win the gold medal.[53][54] Maledon was named captain for France at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup in Argentina.[55] Through seven games, he averaged 11.1 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game as France finished in second place.[56]

French senior national team edit

On 24 February 2019, Maledon debuted for the French senior national team during the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualification stage. He played 15 minutes, recording three points and three rebounds, in a 76–69 loss to Finland.[57] On 7 August, Maledon scored 14 points, making 4–of–5 field goal attempts, in a 94–56 victory over Tunisia in preparation for the World Cup.[58] He was among the final cuts from France's World Cup roster, in part due to a shoulder injury.[59]

Career statistics edit

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

NBA edit

Regular season edit

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2020–21 Oklahoma City 65 49 27.4 .368 .335 .748 3.2 3.5 .9 .2 10.1
2021–22 Oklahoma City 51 7 17.8 .375 .293 .790 2.6 2.2 .6 .2 7.1
2022–23 Charlotte 44 7 19.4 .402 .295 .851 2.8 3.5 .8 .3 6.7
2023–24 Charlotte 13 1 15.4 .288 .167 .917 1.8 2.2 .5 .0 4.2
2023–24 Phoenix 4 0 3.3 .250 — 1.000 .3 .0 .0 .0 1.3
Career 177 64 21.2 .372 .310 .793 2.8 2.9 .7 .2 7.8

EuroCup edit

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2018–19[60] ASVEL 18 12 17.8 .409 .351 .826 2.4 2.1 .4 .2 7.1

EuroLeague edit

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2019–20 ASVEL 22 12 17.7 .456 .367 .689 1.8 3.1 .3 .1 7.4

Personal life edit

Both of Maledon's parents played basketball: his mother, Sylvie, with the French junior national team, and his father, Claude, in the NM1.[5] His uncle, Dominique Guéret, was an assistant coach for LNB Pro B club ALM Évreux. His older sister, Lena, plays college basketball in the United States and his younger brother Matys plays in Montville, France.[2][5]

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External links edit

  • Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com

January 01, 1970
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Theo Louis Maledon born 12 June 2001 pronounced teo malɛdɔ 1 is a French professional basketball player for the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA G League He plays the point guard position Theo MaledonMaledon with ASVEL in 2018No 11 Sioux Falls SkyforcePositionPoint guardLeagueNBA G LeaguePersonal informationBorn 2001 06 12 12 June 2001 age 22 Rouen FranceListed height6 ft 4 in 1 93 m Listed weight175 lb 79 kg Career informationNBA draft2020 2nd round 34th overall pickSelected by the Philadelphia 76ersPlaying career2017 presentCareer history2017 2020ASVEL2020 2022Oklahoma City Thunder2021 2022 Oklahoma City Blue2022 2023Charlotte Hornets2022 2023 Greensboro Swarm2023 2024Phoenix Suns2024 presentSioux Falls SkyforceCareer highlights and awardsLNB Pro A champion 2019 LNB Pro A Best Young Player 2019 French Cup Final MVP 2019 French Cup winner 2019 LNB All Star 2018 Stats at NBA comStats at Basketball Reference comMedals Men s basketball Representing France EuroBasket 2022 Germany FIBA Under 17 World Cup 2018 Argentina Team FIBA U16 European Championship 2017 Montenegro Team Born in Rouen Maledon played youth basketball for French sports institute INSEP before joining the youth ranks of ASVEL at age 16 One year later at the senior level he became the youngest LNB All Star in history and won the LNB Pro A Best Young Player award He helped ASVEL win Pro A and French Cup titles while being named French Cup Final Most Valuable Player MVP At the youth international level Maledon won a gold medal with France at the 2016 FIBA U16 European Championship and a silver medal at the 2018 FIBA Under 17 World Cup He has also played for the senior national team Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Professional career 2 1 ASVEL 2017 2020 2 1 1 2017 18 season 2 1 2 2018 19 season 2 1 3 2019 20 season 2 2 Oklahoma City Thunder 2020 2022 2 3 Charlotte Hornets 2022 2023 2 4 Phoenix Suns 2023 2024 2 5 Sioux Falls Skyforce 2024 present 3 National team career 3 1 French junior national team 3 2 French senior national team 4 Career statistics 4 1 NBA 4 1 1 Regular season 4 2 EuroCup 4 3 EuroLeague 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and career editMaledon was born on 12 June 2001 in Rouen in Normandy France 2 He is of Guadeloupean descent 3 At age three Maledon began playing basketball with his local club Mesnil Esnard in Seine Maritime 4 After reaching the under 11 age group he moved to SPO Rouen the most prominent club in his area 5 In 2015 at age 14 Maledon joined the National Institute of Sport Expertise and Performance INSEP a sports institute in Paris on a scholarship 6 7 In the 2015 16 season he played three games for INSEP affiliated team Centre Federal de Basket ball in the Nationale Masculine 1 NM1 the amateur third tier division of French basketball and two games for INSEP s under 18 team in the Adidas Next Generation Tournament ANGT 8 In 2016 17 Maledon became a regular starter with Centre Federal in the NM1 where he averaged 8 2 points 2 4 rebounds and 2 7 assists in 25 6 minutes per game 9 He scored a season best 20 points along with five rebounds and four assists in a 23 April 2017 loss to Union Tarbes Lourdes Pyrenees fr 10 In the same month Maledon took part in the Jordan Brand Classic Global Showcase at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn where he scored 15 points 11 Professional career editASVEL 2017 2020 edit 2017 18 season edit On 16 June 2017 Maledon joined the junior team of LNB Pro A club ASVEL that played in the LNB Espoirs fr the French U21 league 6 In his season debut on 24 September 2017 he recorded 10 points and five assists in a 71 61 win over Espoirs Limoges 12 Maledon made his Pro A debut for the senior team on 30 September at age 16 playing one minute versus Cholet 13 He became the second youngest debutant in club history 14 On 17 October he made his first appearance in the EuroCup against ratiopharm Ulm 15 In January 2018 Maledon played for ASVEL s under 18 team at the ANGT in L Hospitalet 9 He recorded 35 points and 11 assists on 7 January to help defeat the junior team of Gran Canaria in his final game in the tournament 16 On 12 May 2018 Maledon scored 26 points against Espoirs Monaco his season high in the LNB Espoirs 17 Through 33 Espoirs games he averaged 15 7 points 4 5 rebounds and 4 9 assists per game 9 During summer 2018 he graduated high school one year in advance with major in science 18 2018 19 season edit nbsp Maledon left defends Le Portel s Benoit Mangin in December 2018 On 13 August 2018 Maledon signed his first professional contract agreeing to remain with ASVEL for three years 19 In the 2018 19 season he assumed a greater role for the senior team and frequently made its starting lineup 9 On 6 October Maledon recorded 15 points four rebounds and four assists making six of seven field goal attempts in an 88 64 victory over Fos Provence 20 His ranking fr of 22 in the game was the most by a Pro A player under age 18 since Tony Parker recorded a ranking of 24 against BCM Gravelines in 1999 21 22 On 3 November Maledon recorded a career high 16 points four rebounds and two steals against JDA Dijon 23 He eclipsed his career high on 18 November versus Le Mans Sarthe when he recorded 20 points four assists and two steals 24 On 18 December 2018 against Zenit Saint Petersburg Maledon had 13 points along with seven rebounds and three assists for his best scoring effort in the EuroCup 25 He recorded 18 points five assists two steals and a career best ranking of 26 against Levallois on 26 December 26 Maledon played in the LNB All Star Game on 29 December and at age 17 and a half became the youngest All Star since the event was created in 1987 27 On 12 May 2019 he scored a team high 13 points in a 70 61 win over Le Mans in the French Cup championship and was named Final MVP 28 He was the youngest to ever win this award at age 17 Maledon was named LNB Pro A Best Young Player at the end of the season 29 In June 2019 he helped ASVEL win the Pro A finals over Monaco 30 In a total of 62 games in the season Maledon averaged seven points 2 1 rebounds and two assists in 17 3 minutes per game 9 2019 20 season edit Entering the 2019 20 season Maledon was considered the favorite to win the EuroLeague Rising Star award by the league s website 31 In his season opener a Pro A win over Limoges on 22 September 2019 he recorded six points and eight assists in 19 minutes 32 On 4 October Maledon made his EuroLeague debut playing nine minutes in a victory over Olympiacos In his subsequent game two days later against Cholet he suffered a shoulder injury that forced him to miss over one month of action 33 On 17 January 2020 Maledon recorded a career high 10 assists along with five points and six rebounds in a 101 74 loss to Anadolu Efes 34 One week later he scored 19 points his best mark in the EuroLeague in a 100 88 loss to Panathinaikos 35 On 14 February Maledon matched his career high in scoring with 20 points in an 88 59 victory over Metropolitans 92 at the LNB Pro A Leaders Cup semifinals 36 On 5 April while the basketball season was suspended due to the COVID 19 pandemic he declared for the 2020 NBA draft 7 Maledon finished the season averaging 7 3 points 2 7 assists and 1 9 rebounds in 17 3 minutes per game through 46 combined appearances in the EuroLeague Pro A and Leaders Cup 9 Oklahoma City Thunder 2020 2022 edit Maledon was selected with the 34th overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2020 NBA draft 37 On 8 December 2020 Maledon s draft rights were traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder 38 and the next day he signed a contract 39 On September 30 2022 Maledon was traded along with Derrick Favors Ty Jerome Maurice Harkless and a future second round pick to the Houston Rockets in exchange for David Nwaba Sterling Brown Trey Burke and Marquese Chriss 40 On October 11 he was waived 41 Charlotte Hornets 2022 2023 edit On 15 October 2022 Maledon signed a two way contract with the Charlotte Hornets 42 On 29 September 2023 Maledon re signed with the Hornets on another two way contract 43 but was waived on 14 December 44 Phoenix Suns 2023 2024 edit On 17 December 2023 Maledon signed a two way contract with the Phoenix Suns 45 46 However he did not make his debut with the team until February 8 2024 playing in only a minute and 14 seconds left of the Suns 129 115 win over the Utah Jazz 47 Maledon then recorded 5 points and one rebound for the Suns six days later on Valentine s Day during nearly 10 minutes of playing time in a 116 100 win over the Detroit Pistons 48 Maledon was waived on 4 March 2024 after playing in four games with the Suns 49 Sioux Falls Skyforce 2024 present edit On 11 March 2024 Maledon joined the Sioux Falls Skyforce 50 National team career editFrench junior national team edit Maledon made his youth debut for France at the 2016 FIBA Under 16 European Championship in Radom Poland Through seven games he averaged 8 4 points four rebounds and 2 4 assists per game 51 Maledon played for the French team at the 2017 FIBA Under 16 European Championship in Podgorica Montenegro 52 He averaged 14 6 points 5 1 rebounds and 3 1 assists per game through seven contests scoring 20 points in the final against Montenegro to help France win the gold medal 53 54 Maledon was named captain for France at the 2018 FIBA Under 17 Basketball World Cup in Argentina 55 Through seven games he averaged 11 1 points 6 1 rebounds and 4 1 assists per game as France finished in second place 56 French senior national team edit On 24 February 2019 Maledon debuted for the French senior national team during the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualification stage He played 15 minutes recording three points and three rebounds in a 76 69 loss to Finland 57 On 7 August Maledon scored 14 points making 4 of 5 field goal attempts in a 94 56 victory over Tunisia in preparation for the World Cup 58 He was among the final cuts from France s World Cup roster in part due to a shoulder injury 59 Career statistics editLegend GP Games played GS Games started MPG Minutes per game FG Field goal percentage 3P 3 point field goal percentage FT Free throw percentage RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game BPG Blocks per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high NBA edit Regular season edit Year Team GP GS MPG FG 3P FT RPG APG SPG BPG PPG 2020 21 Oklahoma City 65 49 27 4 368 335 748 3 2 3 5 9 2 10 1 2021 22 Oklahoma City 51 7 17 8 375 293 790 2 6 2 2 6 2 7 1 2022 23 Charlotte 44 7 19 4 402 295 851 2 8 3 5 8 3 6 7 2023 24 Charlotte 13 1 15 4 288 167 917 1 8 2 2 5 0 4 2 2023 24 Phoenix 4 0 3 3 250 1 000 3 0 0 0 1 3 Career 177 64 21 2 372 310 793 2 8 2 9 7 2 7 8 EuroCup edit Year Team GP GS MPG FG 3P FT RPG APG SPG BPG PPG 2018 19 60 ASVEL 18 12 17 8 409 351 826 2 4 2 1 4 2 7 1 EuroLeague edit Year Team GP GS MPG FG 3P FT RPG APG SPG BPG PPG 2019 20 ASVEL 22 12 17 7 456 367 689 1 8 3 1 3 1 7 4Personal life editBoth of Maledon s parents played basketball his mother Sylvie with the French junior national team and his father Claude in the NM1 5 His uncle Dominique Gueret was an assistant coach for LNB Pro B club ALM Evreux His older sister Lena plays college basketball in the United States and his younger brother Matys plays in Montville France 2 5 References edit Focus on Theo Maledon LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne Euroleague Basketball 20 February 2020 Event occurs at 00 26 Retrieved 3 April 2022 a b Talents du Parisien Basket Theo Maledon comme une evidence Le Parisien in French 15 June 2017 Archived from the original on 28 March 2019 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Le basketteur Theo Maledon candidat a la draft NBA guadeloupe franceantilles fr 28 June 2023 Callier Sylvie 25 August 2017 Le basketteur rouennais Theo Maledon part pour l ASVEL Villeurbanne in French France 3 Normandie Archived from the original on 28 March 2019 Retrieved 26 December 2018 a b c Pantel Jouve Gabriel 9 February 2017 Theo Maledon the Next Episode in French BeBasket Archived from the original on 10 October 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 a b Theo Maledon a l Asvel L Equipe 17 June 2017 Archived from the original on 7 December 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 a b Givony Jonathan 5 April 2020 French guard Theo Maledon files to enter NBA draft ESPN Archived from the original on 8 April 2020 Retrieved 24 May 2020 Theo Maledon Game Logs RealGM Retrieved 26 December 2018 a b c d e f Theo Maledon Player Profile RealGM Archived from the original on 6 August 2019 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Apr 23 2017 Centre Federal Du Basket Ball 61 Union Tarbes Lourdes Pyrennes Basket 82 RealGM 23 April 2017 Archived from the original on 16 January 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Jordan Brand Classic Global Showcase NBADraft net 26 April 2017 Archived from the original on 8 November 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Sep 24 2017 Espoirs Limoges 61 Espoirs Lyon 71 RealGM 24 September 2017 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Sep 30 2017 Cholet Basket 59 ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne 77 RealGM 30 September 2017 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Theo Maledon ASVEL un ado parmi les hommes in French Ligue nationale de basket 14 November 2017 Retrieved 27 December 2018 Oct 17 2017 Ratiopharm Ulm 77 ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne 108 RealGM 17 October 2017 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Great performance in the Euroleague s Adidas Next Generation Tournament CB Gran Canaria 8 January 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 May 12 2018 Espoirs Monaco 90 Espoirs Lyon 81 RealGM 12 May 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Equipe de France de basket Theo Maledon un meneur a suivre 21 February 2019 ASVEL signs young Maledon for 3 years EuroCup Basketball 13 August 2018 Archived from the original on 23 December 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Lupo Nicola 7 October 2018 ASVEL prospect Theo Maledon scores 15 points in win over Fos Sur Mer Sportando Archived from the original on 2 December 2018 Retrieved 26 December 2018 Franck Robin 8 October 2018 Du jamais vu depuis Tony Parker pour Theo Maledon in French Parlons Basket Archived from the original on 31 December 2018 Retrieved 26 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2018 Theo Maledon prodige de l ASVEL et attraction du All Star Game francais L Equipe in French Archived from the original on 30 December 2018 Retrieved 30 December 2018 ASVEL Villeurbanne wins French Cup first since 2008 EuroHoops 12 May 2019 Archived from the original on 12 May 2019 Retrieved 12 May 2019 Theo Maledon ASVEL elu meilleur jeune L Equipe in French 20 May 2019 Archived from the original on 1 July 2019 Retrieved 20 May 2019 Bouranis Yiannis 26 June 2019 ASVEL Villeurbanne is the 2019 French League champion TalkBasket Archived from the original on 29 July 2019 Retrieved 29 July 2019 Top 10 EuroLeague Rising Stars EuroLeague 20 September 2019 Archived from the original on 20 December 2019 Retrieved 20 December 2019 Sep 22 2019 CSP Limoges 84 ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne 94 RealGM 22 September 2019 Archived from the original on 20 December 2019 Retrieved 20 December 2019 ASVEL s Theo Maledon out for a month with shoulder injury EuroHoops 7 October 2019 Archived from the original on 20 December 2019 Retrieved 20 December 2019 Greer Jeff 17 January 2020 Theo Maledon working his way into the NBA and out of the shadow of his mentor Tony Parker in France The Athletic Archived from the original on 15 February 2020 Retrieved 15 February 2020 Panathinaikos overpowers ASVEL EuroHoops 24 January 2020 Archived from the original on 15 February 2020 Retrieved 15 February 2020 Borghesan Ennio Terrasi 14 February 2020 Asvel Theo Maledon da spettacolo in Coppa 20 punti contro Strasburgo Sportando in Italian Archived from the original on 15 February 2020 Retrieved 15 February 2020 Noriega Edith 18 November 2020 NBA draft 2020 Five things to know about international prospect Theo Maledon USA Today Retrieved 8 December 2020 Thunder Acquires Al Horford the Draft Rights to Theo Maledon and Vasilije Micic and 2025 First Round Draft Pick NBA com 8 December 2020 Retrieved 8 December 2020 Thunder Signs Theo Maledon NBA com 9 December 2020 Retrieved 9 December 2020 Peery Hannah 30 September 2022 Rockets Complete Trade with Oklahoma City NBA com Retrieved 1 October 2022 Binkley Lachard 11 October 2022 Rockets cut Moe Harkless Theo Maledon sign Darius Days The Dream Shake Retrieved 12 October 2022 Hornets Sign Theo Maledon To Two Way Contract NBA com 15 October 2022 Retrieved 15 October 2022 Charlotte Hornets Re Sign Theo Maledon NBA com 29 September 2023 Retrieved 30 September 2023 Hornets Waive Theo Maledon NBA com 14 December 2023 Retrieved 14 December 2023 Phoenix Suns Suns 17 December 2023 Welcome to The Valley Theo Tweet Retrieved 17 December 2023 via Twitter Gauruder Dana 17 December 2023 Suns Claim Theo Maledon Off Waivers HoopsRumors com Retrieved 17 December 2023 Utah Jazz vs Phoenix Suns Box Score NBA com Retrieved 5 March 2024 Detroit Pistons at Phoenix Suns Box Score February 14 2024 Basketball Reference com Retrieved 5 March 2024 SUNS SIGN FORWARD ISH WAINRIGHT NBA com 4 March 2024 Retrieved 5 March 2024 Theo Maledon Release NBA com 11 March 2024 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lead France to convincing win over Tunisia EuroHoops Retrieved 30 April 2020 Djordjevic Stefan 27 August 2019 France presents the final World Cup squad EuroHoops Archived from the original on 26 February 2020 Retrieved 30 April 2020 Maledon Theo Welcome to 7DAYS EuroCup EuroCup Archived from the original on 6 April 2019 Retrieved 29 July 2019 External links editCareer statistics and player information from NBA com and Basketball Reference com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Theo Maledon amp oldid 1215296606, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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