Martin Paasoja (born 4 January 1993) is an Estonian professional basketball player for Tartu Ülikool of the Korvpalli Meistriliiga. He is a tall shooting guard. He also represents the Estonian national basketball team internationally.
Professional career In September 2022, Paasoja signed with ÍR of the Úrvalsdeild karla.
In April 2023, Paasoja joined Venezuelan top-tier team Centauros de Portuguesa.
Estonian national team Paasoja was a member of the junior Estonian national team that finished 15th in the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship and 19th in the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.
Career statistics
Domestic leagues
Season Team League 2009–10 Pärnu KML 18 12.0 .361 .316 .435 1.8 .2 .6 .1 4.2 2010–11 30 24.1 .371 .364 .585 4.1 .8 1.5 .2 8.5 2011–12 3 28.2 .235 .222 .800 4.3 1.0 2.3 .0 8.7 2012–13 Rapla 37 23.5 .425 .320 .702 3.5 1.6 1.0 .2 7.6 2013–14 33 20.7 .354 .229 .646 3.1 1.1 1.3 .3 7.0 2014–15 20 25.4 .405 .306 .769 3.8 1.8 .9 .1 8.9 2015–16 39 25.9 .397 .252 .775 2.9 2.3 1.0 .2 8.5 2016–17 38 30.3 .416 .333 .791 3.9 2.7 1.0 .2 11.5 2017–18 SCM CSU Craiova Liga Națională 30 23.6 .481 .392 .810 2.1 2.4 1.2 .0 11.0 2018–19 Psychikou Greek A2 30 32.9 .459 .299 .771 4.8 2.1 1.7 .1 15.5 2019–20 Kalev/Cramo LEBL 19 15.2 .438 .308 .829 1.6 2.3 1.1 .1 8.2
Estonia national team
| style="text-align:left;"| 2010 | style="text-align:left;"| 2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia U-18 | 8 || 0 || 13.4 || .489 || .125 || .538 || 2.0 || .4 || 1.1 || .5 || 6.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2011 | style="text-align:left;"| 2011 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship Division B | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia U-18 | 3 || 1 || 22.7 || .125 || .000 || .667 || 2.7 || 3.0 || 1.3 || .0 || 2.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2012 | style="text-align:left;"| 2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia U-20 | 9 || 5 || 28.4 || .424 || .270 || .733 || 6.2 || 1.2 || 1.0 || .0 || 11.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2013 | style="text-align:left;"| 2013 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia U-20 | 9 || 8 || 28.5 || .350 || .319 || .567 || 5.3 || 1.2 || 2.2 || .4 || 11.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2015 | style="text-align:left;"| 2015 Summer Universiade | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia Universiade | 7 || || 14.0 || .258 || .083 || .800 || 1.7 || .3 || .6 || .0 || 3.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2016 | style="text-align:left;"| EuroBasket 2017 Qualification | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia | 6 || 0 || 6.5 || .444 || .000 || 1.000 || .8 || .5 || .2 ||.2 || 1.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2017 | style="text-align:left;"| 2019 Basketball World Cup Pre-Qualifiers | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia | 4 || 2 || 17.6 || .571 || .333 || .571 || 2.8 || 2.2 || .6 || .0 || 5.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2017–19 | style="text-align:left;"| 2019 Basketball World Cup Qualification | style="text-align:left;"| Estonia | 11 || 6 || 15.3 || .488 || .286 || .600 || 1.5 || 1.0 || .9 || .1 || 5.5
References
External links Martin Paasoja at basket.ee Martin Paasoja at fiba.com