Hugo Besson

Position:

Shooting Guard

Height:

195 cm

Age:

23 years (00h00)

Nationality:

France

Team:

Manisa Basket

Stats Games

Hugo Besson (1.95 m, born on 04/26/2001 in Angers) is a male basketball player from France, playing for Manisa Basket in Basketbol Super Ligi and in Basketball Champions League during the 2024-2025 season. In Basketbol Super Ligi, Hugo Besson has stats of 17.1 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists in 18 games played. In Basketball Champions League, his statistics are: 17.5 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists in 12 games played.

Ranking 2024-2025

PointsPTS

17,1

ReboundsREB

#59

AssistsAST

3,1

#50

Statistics 2024-2025

League	Team	GP	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG	2PT	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	TO	BA	PF	FD	+/-
BCL	MAN	12	31:43	17,5	3,9	2,8	1,6	0,2	5,1/12,3 41,5%	3,1/5,8 53,4%	2/6,4 31,3%	5,3/6,5 81,5%	0,4	3,5	1,8	-	1,9	4,7	1,3
BSL	MAN	18	28:15	17,1	4	3,1	0,6	-	5,3/11 48,2%	3,1/5,1 60,8%	2,3/5,9 39,0%	4,2/5,1 82,4%	0,6	3,4	2	-	2,3	-	-

Last Games

Hugo Besson

Date	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	Game	League
00h00	34:16	22	8	4	2	-	V 98-75 vs RYT	Basketball Champions League
00h00	28:47	8	3	2	2	-	D 98-74 @ RYT	Basketball Champions League
00h00	34:00	27	3	4	1	-	V 105-100 vs MER	Basketbol Super Ligi
00h00	12:21	4	3	1	1	-	V 80-89 @ PET	Basketbol Super Ligi
00h00	28:48	10	1	1	1	-	D 85-96 vs GAL	Basketball Champions League
00h00	28:11	12	3	-	-	-	D 86-96 vs DAR	Basketbol Super Ligi
00h00	27:05	10	2	3	4	1	D 91-73 @ MAL	Basketball Champions League

Player Profile

Hugo Besson is a scoring guard who can play point guard. Trained in his home region of Var (at Bandol then Toulon ASPTT, with one season at Roanne in between), the son of Jean-Paul Besson and grandson of Paul Besson joined Chalon at age 15 to enter their youth academy.

The former Antibes Youth Academy player quickly established himself as one of the best scorers in U18 ELITE and then in the Espoirs championship. Not quite ready for the professional team, Hugo Besson was loaned to Saint-Quentin in 2020-2021. Under Julien Mahé, he was the revelation of the season, finishing as Pro B top scorer, best young player and nearly MVP, a title won by his teammate Parker Jackson-Cartwright with whom he formed a thunderous backcourt duo at SQBB.

On NBA teams' radar, Hugo Besson then chose to join the Next Star program in NBL with the New Zealand Breakers. Alongside another young Frenchman, Ousmane Dieng, the Var native stood out despite his team finishing last in the league. The Milwaukee Bucks selected him with the last pick of the 2022 NBA Draft.

However, the 2021 NBA champions didn't invite him to join immediately after the Draft. After some hesitation, Hugo Besson joined Victor Wembanyama and Vincent Collet's Metropolitans 92 for the 2022-2023 season. Important in the first half of the season, he required hip surgery mid-season. Returning to competition in spring 2023, he found himself at the end of the rotation. These performances led him to find a new contract in Serbia with FMP Belgrade. But this experience was also short-lived and he left the club after a final game in mid-January 2024. Hugo Besson then joined Italian team Varese, struggling in Serie A. His start there has been good so far.