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Fabien Causeur

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Fabien Causeur
No. 5 – Olimpia Milano
PositionShooting guard
LeagueLega Basket Serie A
EuroLeague
Personal information
Born(1987-06-16)16 June 1987(age 37)
Brest, France
Listed height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Listed weight86 kg (190 lb)
Career information
NBA draft2009:undrafted
Playing career2005–present
Career history
2005–2009Le Havre
2009–2012Cholet
2012–2016Baskonia
2016–2017Brose Bamberg
2017–2024Real Madrid
2024-presentOlimpia Milano
Career highlights and awards

Fabien Causeur(born 16 June 1987) is a French professionalbasketballplayer forOlimpia Milanoof the ItalianLega Basket Serie A(LBA) and theEuroLeague.Standing at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m),[1]he plays at theshooting guardposition. He was the 2018French player of the year.[2]

Professional career

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Causeur played in theFrench Leaguestarting in 2005. He spent the first four years of his career withSTB Le Havre.Le Havre finished fifth in the French League in the 2007–08 season; as a result Causeur played eight games with the team in theEuroCup 2008–09.Causeur joined the French teamCholet Basketfor the 2009–10 season.[3]He saw action in five games for the team in theEuroCup 2009–10.

He then moved to theLiga ACBclubSaski Baskonia,where he played from 2012 to 2016. On 3 August 2016 Causeur signed withBrose Bambergof the GermanBasketball Bundesligaand theEuroLeague.[4]

In the 2016–17 season, Causeur won theBasketball Bundesligatitle with Bamberg after sweepingEWE Baskets Oldenburg3–0 in the Finals. Causeur was named theBBL Finals MVP,after averaging 14.0 points and 5.3 rebounds in the series.[5]

On 25 July 2017 Causeur signed a two-year deal withReal Madrid.[6][7]In May 2018, Real Madrid won the2017–18 EuroLeaguechampionship, after defeatingFenerbahçe Doğuşin thefinal gamewith 85–80.[8]Over 36 EuroLeague games, Causeur averaged 6.9 points, 1.9 assists and 1.6 rebounds per game. On 3 July 2019 Causeur agreed a contract extension withReal Madriduntil 2022.[9]On 23 July 2024, Causeur parted ways with the Spanish powerhouse after seven successful seasons.

National team career

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Causeur first played with the junior national teams of France at the2007 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.He was selected to the senior men'sFrench national basketball teamfor the first time for the2010 FIBA World Championship.He also played at the2012 Summer Olympics.[10]

Career statistics

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Legend
GP Games played GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
FG% Field-goalpercentage 3P% 3-point field-goalpercentage FT% Free-throwpercentage
RPG Reboundsper game APG Assistsper game SPG Stealsper game
BPG Blocksper game PPG Points per game PIR Performance Index Rating
Bold Career high

EuroLeague

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† Denotes season in which Causeur won theEuroLeague
* Led the league
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2010–11 Cholet 4 3 29.3 .379 .267 .643 3.5 2.3 1.0 — 8.8 8.3
2012–13 Baskonia 28 13 20.8 .503 .375 .692 1.7 1.5 .7 .1 7.7 5.8
2013–14 17 12 23.2 .424 .297 1.000* 2.4 1.5 .5 .1 5.9 6.0
2014–15 23 19 23.9 .506 .345 .700 2.7 2.3 1.3 .3 9.3 11.4
2015–16 21 20 28.2 .444 .395 .810 3.1 2.0 1.1 .3 10.3 11.0
2016–17 Bamberg 29 29 25.3 .502 .347 .776 3.2 2.2 .8 .4 9.9 11.0
2017–18† Real Madrid 36* 24 18.1 .529 .441 .712 1.6 1.9 .4 .1 6.9 7.2
2018–19 35 24 14.1 .476 .415 .703 1.7 1.4 .3 .0 5.8 5.5
2019–20 25 12 16.3 .552 .473 .650 1.5 1.5 .3 .0 7.5 7.3
2020–21 28 8 14.1 .469 .417 .659 1.1 1.4 .4 — 6.3 5.4
2021–22 28 18 20.0 .497 .432 .692 1.6 1.4 .4 .1 8.5 6.7
2022–23† 29 8 12.7 .381 .364 .773 1.1 1.2 .4 .1 4.0 3.1
2023–24 32 18 15.2 .462 .394 .889 1.3 1.1 .4 .2 5.1 4.5
Career 335 208 18.9 .483 .392 .734 1.9 1.6 .6 .1 7.2 6.9

References

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  1. ^CAUSEUR, FABIEN HEIGHT: 1.96.
  2. ^Fabien Causeur remporte le Trophée Alain Gilles 2018(in French).
  3. ^Profileat eurobasket
  4. ^"Basketball-Meister verpflichtet Franzosen Causeur".br.de. 3 August 2016.Retrieved8 August2016.
  5. ^Threepeat und Sweep! Bamberg gewinnt drittes Spiel gegen Oldenburg und feiert den Titel / Causeur Finals-MVP
  6. ^"Official Announcement: Fabien Causeur | Real Madrid CF".Real Madrid C.F. - Web Oficial.25 July 2017.Retrieved3 July2019.
  7. ^"This is how Fabien Causeur plays | Real Madrid CF".Real Madrid C.F. - Web Oficial.25 July 2017.Retrieved3 July2019.
  8. ^"Real Madrid is 2018 EuroLeague champion".euroleague.net.20 May 2018.Retrieved20 May2018.
  9. ^"Official Announcement: Causeur | Real Madrid CF".Real Madrid C.F. - Web Oficial.3 July 2019.Retrieved3 July2019.
  10. ^Fabien CAUSEUR (FRA).
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