Alain Digbeu Honored with a Sports Hall in France

Max Potential's Basketball Branch Director Alain Digbeu was honored on March 27, 2026, at a ceremony in Lentilly, France — where the newly expanded sports complex's basketball hall was named "Salle Jennifer & Alain Digbeu" after him and his sister Jennifer Digbeu.

The expansion project, initiated by the municipality of Lentilly in 2022 and launched in 2024, added two new halls to the existing complex. The second hall was named after the late mountaineer Eric Escoffier. The inauguration drew families, local officials, and a large community audience.

Jennifer and Alain Digbeu in front of the Salle Digbeu sign

Alain Digbeu is a legend of French basketball: a two-time French Cup champion with ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne, named France's best player in 1998, and a Spanish League and Cup champion with FC Barcelona in 2001. Capped 68 times for the French national team, Digbeu was selected 50th overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the 1997 NBA Draft — but chose to remain in Europe, going on to play for FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and leading clubs in Italy.

His sister Jennifer Digbeu is equally accomplished — a French international who represented her country at the 2012 London Olympics and competed at the highest level of the women's league for over a decade.

Alain Digbeu and family, ceremony photo inside Salle Digbeu

This moment — a city honoring an athlete and their family — is exactly what Max Potential stands for. Forged across 18 professional seasons from ASVEL to Barcelona and Real Madrid, Alain Digbeu now channels the full weight of that career into the athletes he mentors at Max Potential. BGL champion Ömer Uludağ and U16 national team player Tibet Doruk Evin are building their international foundations on precisely that kind of experience.

As the Max Potential family, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to the entire Digbeu family on this well-deserved honor.