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Antoine Diot
	Diot warming-up with Paris-Levallois Basket in 2012
No. 8 – Chorale Roanne Basket
Position	Point guard / shooting guard
League	LNB Pro A
Personal information
Born	17 January 1989 (age 35); Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Listed height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	2011: undrafted
Playing career	2004–present
Career history
2007–2012	Le Mans
2012–2013	Paris-Levallois
2013–2015	SIG Strasbourg
2015–2019	Valencia Basket
2019–2023	ASVEL
2023–present	Chorale Roanne Basket
Career highlights and awards
	2x Pro A champion (2021, 2022); Spanish League champion (2017); Spanish Supercup winner (2017); EuroCup champion (2019); French Leaders Cup MVP (2015); French League Domestic MVP (2014); 4× French League All-Star (2009, 2012–2014); 2× French Leaders Cup winner (2009, 2015); 4× French Cup winner (2009, 2013, 2015, 2021); FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship MVP (2005);
Representing France
FIBA World Cup
EuroBasket
U-19 World Cup
European U-20 Championship
European U-18 Championship
European U-16 Championship

Antoine Camille Diot (born 17 January 1989) is a French professional basketball player for Chorale Roanne Basket of the LNB Pro A. Standing at 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in), he plays the point guard position. He also represents the French national basketball team.

Professional career edit

Diot began playing basketball with the youth teams of the French club JL Bourg en Bresse. He then played with Centre Fédéral, in the French 3rd-tier level league, the NM1, from 2004 to 2007. He began his professional career in 2007, with the French 1st-tier level Pro A League club, Le Mans. He moved to the French club Paris-Levallois Basket in 2012.

On 1 July 2013 Diot signed a two-year deal with the French Pro A team Strasbourg IG, with an opt-out clause after the first year.^[1] He was voted the French League French Player's MVP in 2014. In June 2014, he opted to remain with the team for one more season.^[2] He was voted the French Leaders Cup MVP in 2015.

On 10 July 2015 he signed a two-year contract with the Spanish ACB team Valencia Basket.^[3] With Valencia, he won the Spanish League 2016–17 season championship. On 5 July 2017 he signed a two-year contract extension with Valencia.^[4]

On 11 June 2023 he signed with Chorale Roanne Basket of the LNB Pro A.^[5]

Diot was a member of the French junior national teams. With France's junior national teams, he played at the following tournaments: the 2004 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, where he won a gold medal, the 2005 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, where he won a silver medal, and was named the tournament's MVP, the 2006 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, where he won a gold medal, the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, where he won a bronze medal, the 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, the 2008 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, and the 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship, where he won a silver medal, and was named to the All-Tournament Team.

Diot then became a member of the senior men's French national basketball team. With France's senior national team, he has played at the following major tournaments: the EuroBasket 2009, the EuroBasket 2013, where he won a gold medal, the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, where he won a silver medal, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Tournament	GP	PPG	RPG	APG
EuroBasket 2009	8	5.1	1.9	1.0
EuroBasket 2013	11	4.5	1.6	1.1
2014 World Cup	9	6.9	2.6	2.3
2016 Olympics Qualification	4	4.8	0.8	0.5
2016 Summer Olympics	6	4.0	1.0	1.0

^ "Strasbourg signs Antoine Diot to a two-year deal". sportando.com. 1 July 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
^ "Antoine Diot reste à la SIG". sigbasket.fr (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2015.
^ "Valencia signs Antoine Diot to a two-year contract". sportando.com. 10 July 2015. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
^ "Valencia re-signs combo guard Diot". Euroleague.net. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
^ Skerletic, Dario (June 11, 2023). "Antoine Diot joins Chorale Roanne - Sportando". Sportando. Retrieved June 12, 2023.