page_title: ASVEL Basket
section_title: Notable players
hierarchical_section_title: ASVEL Basket / Players / Notable players
caption_attribution_description: English: Alain Gilles, professional basketball player.
context_page_description: ASVEL Basket, commonly known as ASVEL or sometimes as ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne, and also known as LDLC ASVEL for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional basketball team that is located in the city of Villeurbanne, which is a suburb of Lyon, France. The club, which is the basketball section of the ASVEL multi-sports club, competes in the top-tier level French Pro A League. The club's home games are played at L'Astroballe, which seats 5,556 people.
  In 2014, Tony Parker became the president of the club. In 2017, Nicolas Batum became the club's director of basketball operations. In June 2019, football club Olympique Lyonnais purchased a 25% stake in the ASVEL men's team, plus a 10% stake in the ASVEL women's team, in a deal worth around €3.7 million. The deal also included a plan for a new Euroleague-standard arena.
context_section_description: Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
   Éric Beugnot
   Jim Bilba
   Yann Bonato
   André Buffière
   Alain Digbeu
   Alain Durand
   Alain Gilles
   Henri Grange
   Charles Lombahe-Kahudi
   Jacques Monclar
   Tony Parker
   Laurent Pluvy
   Henri Rey
   Gérard Sturla
   Philip Szanyiel
   Alain Vincent
   Nikola Radulović
   Nikola Vujčić
   Robert Gulyas
   François Németh
   Kristjan Kangur
   Rolandas Alijevas
   Mindaugas Lukauskis
   Mantas Kalnietis
   Hüseyin Beşok
   Bobby Dixon
   Steve Bucknall
   David Andersen
   Adrian Uter
   Norris Bell
   Brian Howard
   Bob Purkisher
   Willie Redden
   J. R. Reynolds
   Leslie Reynolds
   Delaney Rudd
   Ronnie Smith
   Casper Ware
caption: Alain Gilles played 21 years with the club, and coached the team for 9 years.
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