T.J. Warren is heading overseas for the first time in his professional career, and he’s doing it with one of France’s top clubs.
The former NC State star has signed a one-year deal with Paris Basketball in the LNB Elite, the highest level of professional basketball in France. Warren, now 32 and turning 33 in September, is set to begin the 2026/2027 season with a team that reached the top of the regular season standings last year before losing to AS Monaco in the finals.
Paris Basketball announced the move on July 13, 2026, and sources said Warren passed on several more lucrative offers in Europe to land in Paris. The appeal was clear: a bigger role and the city itself were major factors in his decision.
After spending the last two seasons in the NBA G League, Warren now gets a fresh start on the international stage. It’s a new setting, but the same old selling point - he still knows how to score.
With the Westchester Knicks over the past two seasons, Warren averaged 22.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Before that, he put together a nine-year NBA career that included stops with the Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers, Brooklyn Nets, and Minnesota Timberwolves, and he finished with a 14.3-point scoring average.
There’s also a familiar NC State thread in France. Warren will be in the same league as former Wolfpack forward Mohamed Diarra, who currently plays for Cholet.
Warren’s résumé in Raleigh still stands out all these years later. He spent only two seasons at NC State, but both left a mark. As a freshman, he made the ACC All-Freshman Team after averaging 12.1 points and 4.2 rebounds while shooting 62.2% from the field.
Then came the season that pushed him into school history.
In 2013-14, Warren became just the third player in NC State history to win ACC Player of the Year. He also earned Consensus Second Team All-American honors.
That sophomore year, he averaged 24.9 points per game, the fifth-highest single-season average in program history, and scored 871 points, the most by any player in a single season at NC State. He also owns the school records for career double-doubles with 34 and 20-plus-point games with 31.
Warren has built his career on one thing: getting buckets. From Raleigh to the NBA to the G League, that part has never changed. Now Paris Basketball gets the next chapter.
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