The 27-year-old has looked right at home in Europe's premier club basketball competition
TJ Shorts is showing he means business in the EuroLeague
“Of course I believe I can play at the highest level, which is the EuroLeague. If you ask me if I’m a EuroLeague player, I definitely believe that and I know in the future my time is coming.”
That’s what Paris Basketball guard TJ Shorts told Eurohoops in January 2024. Back then, he wasn’t a EuroLeague player and was only speaking in semantic terms. Shorts had every right to feel that way and the actual game to back up his claims.
Paris Basketball was rolling over the competition in the BKT EuroCup behind Shorts’s leadership on the floor. The French side was looking so unstoppable that winning the title and with it the ticket to the 2024-25 EuroLeague seemed to be just a formality, waiting to be stamped and sealed.
A few months later, that is pretty much what happened. Paris won the EuroCup, Shorts added the EuroCup Finals MVP award to his trophy case next to the EuroCup MVP he had already claimed and was EuroLeague-bound, together with his club.
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