TJ Warren wasted no time making himself at home in Paris Basketball colors.
In his first game overseas, the former NC State star poured in 22 points and helped Paris Basketball top Nanterre 92, 95-88, in the French Super Cup season-opening showcase. Warren did most of his damage efficiently, finishing 8-of-12 from the field and 3-of-5 from 3-point range. He also chipped in two rebounds and two blocks.
It was a sharp reminder that the scoring touch never really left.
Warren, who recently turned 33, has not played in an NBA regular-season game over the last two seasons. Instead, he spent the past two years with the Westchester Knicks in the G League, where he kept producing at a high level. He averaged 22.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game there, and his debut in France showed that the bucket-getting still travels.
Paris Basketball is now the first professional stop outside the United States for Warren. The club arrives with plenty of momentum of its own after winning the LNB Elite regular-season championship last season before falling to AS Monaco in the league finals.
Warren’s path to this moment started more than a decade ago at NC State, where he built one of the most impressive scoring résumés in school history across just two seasons in Raleigh.
As a freshman in 2012-13, 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 breakout.
In 2013-14, Warren averaged 24.9 points per game, becoming just the third player in NC State history to win ACC Player of the Year honors. He also earned Consensus Second Team All-American recognition.
That season still stands out all over the NC State record book. Warren’s 24.9 points per game rank fifth in program history for a single season, and his 871 points are the most ever by an NC State player in one season. He also owns the school records for career double-doubles with 34 and 20-plus-point games with 31.
The Suns took him No. 14 overall in the 2014 NBA Draft after that huge sophomore year, and Warren went on to spend nine seasons in the league with the Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers, Brooklyn Nets and Minnesota Timberwolves. He averaged 14.3 points per game in the NBA, with his best run coming in Phoenix in 2019-20, when he posted 19.8 points per game during the Covid season. Warren was the Bubble King.
Now he’s starting another chapter, and the early signs are the same as ever: give him space, and he’ll fill it up.
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