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ago 22 2026Amid turbulent times, ASVEL renews what it knows. The Villeurbanne club confirmed the contract extension of Edwin Jackson, and the 36-year-old shooting guard will face his eleventh season as a club player in what is already his third stint with the organization.
The numbers explain what he means: Jackson is the sixth player with the most EuroLeague games in ASVEL history, with 91, and the eighth all-time leading scorer, with 479 points. Next season will also be his ninth campaign in the top continental competition.
The role of the veteran of the house
His contribution last season was that of a rotation specialist: 6.5 points, one rebound and 1.3 assists in 21 EuroLeague games. Nobody expects more, and that is precisely the point of the operation in the context the club is going through, under financial control and rebuilding the roster with affordable experience. Renewing a moral captain, French, from the house and at a contained cost is the most coherent move with the summer pattern, the same one that explains the arrivals of Patty Mills, Jae Crowder or Nate Sestina.
A familiar face in the Liga Endesa
Spanish fans know Jackson well, because few foreigners have made as many stops here. He wore Barcelona's jersey in two periods, making his EuroLeague debut with them in 2015; he played for Unicaja in 2015-16; and left his best mark at Estudiantes, with two stints: 2016-17 and the 2020-22 biennium, in which he was one of the few offensive weapons for the team that ended up being relegated. He even played a few months in the LEB Plata, with Hestia Menorca, in 2023, before ASVEL rescued him for the third time.
His history with the French club goes back a long way: he arrived in 2007 at age 18, developed through loans at Nanterre and Rouen, and has always returned. Nineteen years after that debut, he will continue wearing the same jersey.
