Position Point guard NBA draft 2014 / Undrafted Weight 86 kg Nationality French Name Leo Westermann Career start 2010 | Listed height 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) Role Basketball player Pro career 2010 Listed weight 86 kg (190 lb) Height 1.96 m | |
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League French League
Euroleague Born July 24, 1992 (age 31)
Haguenau, France ( 1992-07-24 ) Current team KK Partizan (#9 / Point guard) Profiles | ||
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Léo Joseph Paul Westermann (born July 24, 1992) is a French professional basketball player for Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League and the EuroLeague. He is a 1.97 m, or 6'5¾" tall (6'7" in shoes) point guard.
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Early years
Westermann started his professional career in 2008, playing for Centre Fédéral de Basketball at the Nationale Masculine 1, the third division of French basketball. He played for Centre Fed for two seasons, averaging 10.1 points, 2.6 assists and 1.1 steals per game in 48 games.
ASVEL
He signed with ASVEL Basket in 2010. He stayed there for two seasons, playing in the French Pro A and EuroCup. In 2012, Westermann was selected to play for the World Team at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Oregon. He left the team just few hours before he signed a contract with different team.
Partizan Belgrade
On July 2, 2012, it was reported that Westermann signed a three-year contract with Partizan Belgrade. He was one of the candidates for the prestigious award EuroLeague Rising Star, which eventually went to Kostas Papanikolaou. In his first season, he averaged 9.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists in the EuroLeague. In the ABA League, Westermann helped his team to win the title, averaging 6.9 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 28 games. In November's away game against CSKA Moscow, he tore his ACL on his knee, which sidelined him for the remainder of the season. As the result of the injury, Partizan had to find a replacement for him in Milenko Tepić, a former member of the team.
Barcelona / Limoges
On July 17, 2014, Barcelona acquired the player rights of Westermann. On July 25, 2014, he was loaned to the French EuroLeague team Limoges CSP for one season. Over 10 EuroLeague games, he averaged 7.7 points, 2.3 rebounds, a career-high 4.3 assists, and 1.3 steal per game. On July 11, 2015, Westermann signed a one-year extension, with the option of another year, with Limoges.
Žalgiris Kaunas
On May 30, 2016, Westermann signed a one-year contract, with the possibility to extend it for one more year, with Žalgiris Kaunas.
Career statistics
Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the player participated for the team during the season. He also played in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.
National team
Westermann won a silver medal at the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. Westermann also played at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, where he helped France to win a bronze medal. At the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, Westermann won the silver medal, and was named the tournament's MVP. He was on the senior French national basketball team's candidate list to compete at the EuroBasket 2013, but unlike his teammate in Partizan Belgrade, Joffrey Lauvergne, he did not make it onto France's final 12-man squad for the tournament.
He played at EuroBasket 2015.