Overview
- Paris Basketball announced the hiring of 39-year-old Maxime Lefèvre as head coach for the 2026–27 EuroLeague campaign.
- Lefèvre spent seven seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves organization and moves to Paris for his first head-coaching job.
- He has worked daily as Rudy Gobert’s personal coach and earned public praise from Timberwolves coach Chris Finch for his relationship skills and tactical work.
- Lefèvre named Pierric Poupet as his chief assistant and will be joined by Bienvenu Kindoki and Giovanni Spessotto on the staff.
- The club framed the appointment as part of a broader project to use NBA-linked coaching knowledge to attract international players and accelerate Paris’s rise in domestic and European competition, continuing a recent pattern of transatlantic coach movement.