Radhouane Slimane

Radhouane Slimane (born 16 August 1980) is a Tunisian basketball player who currently plays for Sagesse SC of the Lebanese Basketball League. Standing at 2.05m, Nicknamed "Sekka" in the Tunisian basketball scene, Slimane mainly plays as power forward.

Born in Kairouan, he started out his career playing six seasons with his hometown team JS Kairouan. Slimane then played in Portugal, the United Arab Emirates as well as other Arab countries. He spent significant time with ES Sahel before signing with US Monastir. He captained Monastir to their first BAL championship in 2022.

Slimane played for the Tunisia national basketball team during his career, winning three AfroBasket tournaments in 2011, 2017 and 2021.

Early life
Slimane was born in Kairouan, a city in which basketball is very popular and picked up the sport at a young age. After succeeding in the junior level, he joined JS Kariouan's senior team that plays in the Championnat Pro A.

Career
Slimane has played for several teams in his ten-year basketball career, including stops in Portugal, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and his native Tunisia. He is known for his rough, physical style of play.

Slimane is a member of the Tunisia national basketball team and made his most recent appearance at the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Prior to that, he competed at the 2007 FIBA Africa Championship before having a fallout with the Tunisian Federation. Shortly before the 2010 World Championship, he made amends with the Federation and joined the team in Turkey.

In September 2018, Slimane signed a 2-year contract with US Monastir for a second stint with the team. He led Monastir to their first-ever BAL championship in the 2022, and was named to the All-BAL First Team following a season in which he averaged 14.4 points per game.

On 3 October 2023, Slimane joined Sagesse Club for the 2023-24 season.

National team career
When playing for JS Kairouan, scouts noticed his talent and subsequently Slimane played with the Tunisia senior team at 2001 FIBA Africa Championship at age 21. At the 2001 tournament, Tunisia lost to Algeria in the semi-finals. In the 2005 and 2007 Afrobasket tournaments, Slimane was the leading scorer. He missed the 2009 tournament due to issues with the national federation. At AfroBasket 2011, Slimane and Tunisia won their first gold medal. Slimane then played with Tunisia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Slimane missed the 2015 after he left the team three days ahead of the tournament due to a disagreement with the head coach.

He won a second gold medal at AfroBasket 2017 and a third at AfroBasket 2021.

Club

 * JS Kairouan
 * 3× Championnat National A: (2001, 2002, 2003)
 * 2× Tunisian Cup: (2002, 2005)
 * Maghreb Championship: (2003)
 * ES Sahel
 * Championnat National A: (2011)
 * 2× Arab Club Basketball Championship: (2015, 2016)
 * 2× Tunisian Cup: (2011, 2016)
 * US Monastir
 * Basketball Africa League: (2022)
 * 4× Championnat National A: (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
 * 3× Tunisian Cup: (2020, 2021, 2022)

National team

 * Tunisia
 * AfroBasket: 🥇 Gold medal in 2011, 2017, 2021

Individual

 * All-BAL First Team: (2022)
 * Tunisian Cup Final MVP: (2022)
 * Championnat National A Best Forward of the Season: (2019)

BAL career statistics

 * style="text-align:left;"|2021
 * style="text-align:left;"|Monastir
 * 6 || 6 || 22.4 || .488 || .481 || .818 || 4.0 || 2.7 || .5 || .0 || 10.3
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:left;" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|2022†
 * style="text-align:left;"|Monastir
 * 8 || 8 || 31.0 || .424|| .294 || .903 || 5.0 || 3.9 || 1.1 || .6 || 14.4
 * style="text-align:left;"|2023
 * style="text-align:left;"|Monastir
 * 5 || 5 || 28.9 || .304 || .207 || .889 || 5.4  || 1.6 || 1.0 || .2 || 10.0
 * style="text-align:left;"|Monastir
 * 5 || 5 || 28.9 || .304 || .207 || .889 || 5.4  || 1.6 || 1.0 || .2 || 10.0