Jean-Pierre Hunckler, president of the French Basketball Federation (FFBB), confirmed the news in an interview with French publication Le Progrès. “He assured me that unless there is a physical ...

He shot well last season for the French basketball team JL Bourg and has ... These aren't stunning numbers for an NBA player, but they're excellent for a teenager in his first NBA season.

“We are witnessing the golden era of French basketball.” The French Pied Piper Ask any of today’s French NBA players how their country became the epicenter of the international game and one ...

French basketball fans can breathe easy - the Spurs organization, perhaps not so much. Victor Wembanyama is all in for EuroBasket 2025.

Bilal Coulibaly gave his old pal Victor Wembanyama a rude welcome to Capital One Arena. On Monday, Bilal put Wemby on a ...

The path from Europe's fifth-most populous country to professional ball stateside isn't a new or rare one; in 2023, Tony Parker became the first French player inducted into the Basketball Hall of ...

San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) dunks over Miami Heat center Kel'el Ware (7) during the second half of an NBA basketball game ... the league's very best players.

In just his second year in the NBA, he returns home as a Spurs player and as ... its borders – and basketball is growing fast in France. Since stepping foot back on French soil, "Wemby" has ...

Tall and slender, French basketball player Dominique Diomande strode into Alaska Airlines Arena before last Wednesday night's Washington-Purdue game and began to get acclimated with his new ...

Their friendship runs deeper than the camp or their French connection. Their fathers were standout basketball players, and both fathers died when their sons were young. When Batum was 2 and ...

The trip is a homecoming for the Spurs' biggest star, and Victor Wembanyama unveiled two basketball courts in ... the president of Wembanyama's former French team. The project was a co-effort ...