Evan Fournier

BirthOctober 291992

Evan Fournier

Evan Fournier, French basketball player

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When
Thursday, October 29 199234 years ago
Category
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Era
20th century · 1990s
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Evan Fournier

Who they were

Evan Mehdi Fournier is a French professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. After a twelve-year stint in the NBA he returned to Europe, where he was named to the All-EuroLeague Second Team in his debut season.

Early life

Early life Fournier was born on 29 October 1992, in Saint-Maurice , a small suburb outside of Paris, to a French father and a mother of Algerian descent. [ 1 ] He became interested in basketball in 2002, thanks to the 2001–02 Sacramento Kings team. Fournier wore the number 10 on his jersey in honor of then-Sacramento King, Mike Bibby . [ 2 ] He played junior basketball at the French INSEP academy from 2007 to 2009. [ 3 ] ^ Panara, Marlène (1 July 2018).

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Evan Fournier appears on our October 29 calendar for 1992 as a birth entry.

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October 29 1992 — 34 years ago, on a Thursday.

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