Hero of Partizan Belgrade on Monday night in the Adriatic League, Mathias Lessort is in the crosshairs of local rivals, Red Star. The French pivot hovered over the derby won at the Stark Arena (92-81) with 27 points and 8 rebounds. But just after the buzzer, the former Monaco player attacked his counterpart Filip Petrusev, whom he approached before pushing him away vigorously twice.
” We demand the strictest sanction against the behavior of Mathias Lessort who attacked Filip Petrusev with his fists “, rose up the Red Star in a press releasebefore specifying the desired sanction: “ a suspension until the end of the season in the Adriatic League. After the incident, Partizan coach Zeljko Obradovic apologized to Petrusev and the Belgrade club announced on his side that Lessort’s reaction was ” inappropriate » and that he could be sanctioned.
For his second season in Belgrade, the French pivot is one of the darlings of Stark Arena and Partizan’s best player in the Euroleague with 12.5 points and 7.5 rebounds on average for 18.1 rating. World bronze medalist in China with the France team in 2019, Lessort hopes to find the Blues this summer for the World Cup (August 25-September 10).