NBA guard considering EuroLeague offers following Olympic resurgence

Since the Pistons turned down Evan Fournier's 2024-25 team option and made him an unrestricted free agent, Evan Fournier has been seeking potential NBA opportunities. However, approximately two months later, no deal materialized stateside, and Michalis Stefanou of Eurohoops reports that the French swingman is “seriously considering” the possibility of returning to Europe.

According to Stefanou, EuroLeague teams based in Spain, Italy and France have either made Fournier a contract offer or expressed interest in signing him.

As Stefanou points out, Fournier tweeted in 2022 that his top choice would be Olympiacos if he ever returned to the EuroLeague. Whether the Greek club is among those teams interested in the veteran winger is unclear.

Before the Nuggets selected Fournier with the 20th overall pick in the 2012 draft, the 31-year-old spent time with JSF Nanterre and Poitiers Basket 86 in France, so the 31-year-old is no stranger to playing overseas. He has been in the NBA for the past 12 seasons, appearing in more than 700 regular-season games for Denver, Orlando, Boston, New York, and Detroit.

Fournier was a reliable starter and scorer for several years in his prime, averaging over 15 points per game for six consecutive seasons from 2015 to 2021 and setting a Knicks team record for most three-pointers in a single season in 2021-22 with 241 (Donte DiVincenzo broke that record this past season).

He fell out of Tom Thibodeau‘s rotation in New York during the 2022-23 season, and after eventually getting the change of scenery he sought, he struggled to make an impact in Detroit during the second half of the 2023-24 campaign, averaging just 7.2 points in 18.7 minutes per game across 29 outings, with a .373/.270/.794 shooting line.

During the second week of July, Marc Stein reported that the Wizards may be interested in Fournier as a potential veteran mentor to young Frenchmen Alex Sarr and Bilal Coulibaly. Nothing came of that, though, and there haven’t been any reports linking Fournier to any specific NBA teams since then.

He probably didn’t help his stock much by posting modest numbers (9.8 PPG on 34.0% shooting, including 32.4% on three-pointers) during France’s silver medal run at the Paris Olympics.