The guard finished with a double-double in yet another MVP-level performance
TJ Shorts stars as Paris comes out on top against Milan, 92-79

Paris Basketball downed EA7 Emporio Armani Milan 92-79 in Round 30 to grab the tiebreaker between these two sides, which could be crucial come the end of the regular season. Ettore Messina's men won by five points back in Round 2, but Tuesday night's 13-point victory gave Tiago Splitter's squad the head-to-head advantage. Both Paris and Milan entered this clash with an identical 16-13 record, but Paris now improved to 17-13 while Milan dropped to 16-14.
TJ Shorts was outstanding for the hosts, posting a 24-point, 10-assist double-double in addition to 6 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block. Sebastian Herrera and Maodo Lo both added 13 points, and Tyson Ward poured in 11. Milan's leading scorer was Fabien Causeur with 18 points, followed by Nico Mannion with 17, Zach LeDay with 14 and Shavon Shields with 10.
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It was a perfect start for Paris, which opened the game with a 12-0 run that included threes by Mikael Jantunen, Ward and Yakuba Ouattara. Paris debutant Mathis Dossou-Yovo entered the contest and made a near-instant impression with a dunk to give Paris a 14-6 edge. Milan was starting to get some momentum thanks to the threeball, and Mannion knocked down two in quick succession – his second and third triples of the game – before Stefano Tonut’s pull-up three made it 16-15. Shorts then scored four points in the remainder of the period as Paris led 22-18 after 10 minutes, with all of Milan’s points coming on three-pointers.
Shorts and Ward combined for five points as Paris went up 27-18 to start the period, but Tonut hit back with four points of his own, 27-22. Mannion moved to 11 points as Milan kept up with Paris, 30-24, but the hosts continued to find ways to score, first through Doussou-Yovo and then Nadir Hifi, 35-24. Nikola Mirotic got his first points of the game from the line, 35-26 before a layup by Giampaolo Ricci and back-to-back scores by Mannion, with a Lo three-pointer in between, made it a six-point ballgame, 38-32. A strong finish to the half by Paris, however, saw Tiago Splitter’s side go on an 11-0 run, featuring five points from Shorts and a pair of threes by Herrera and Jantunen as the lead swelled to 48-37 at the break.
Things only got worse for Milan after halftime, with Paris going on an 8-2 stretch to lead by 17 points, 56-39. Shorts responded to a Shavon Shields score to retain that 17-point advantage at 58-41 before Causeur took over. The Frenchman scored 15 points for Milan as the momentum began to swing the way of the visitors, who trailed by just four points at 69-65. Yet, Ward, Herrera and Shorts stepped up in the latter stages of the period in a 7-2 run, which made it 76-67 entering the final frame.
Mannion took his tally to 17 points with a mid-range jumper at the start of the fourth, 76-69, but Herrera continued his impressive night with a deep three, 79-69, then Shorts recorded just his second block of the season by rejecting Mannion. Some bad news befell Paris as Jantunen went down with a lower leg injury and had to make his way back to the locker room, but Ward and Shorts kept Paris in control at 84-71. LeDay tried his best to breathe fire into Milan’s comeback attempt, scoring all eight of his team’s points in a three-and-a-half-minute stretch, but Paris still led 87-77. The game was effectively put to bed when, following a pair of Lo free throws, the German point guard had all the time in the world to knock down a three-pointer, which gave Paris a 92-77 lead. Shields’s layup with 1:27 proved to be the final points scored in the contest.