Armel Traoré was not selected in the 2024 NBA Draft, but his adventure in the Major League will still be able to begin. The Frenchman has signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The disappointment only lasted a few seconds. As soon as the Draft was over, Armel Traoré, a 21-year-old French 3/4 position player who did not find a buyer during the ceremony, signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. The former teammate of Victor Wembanyama and Bilal Coulibaly in Boulogne-Levallois will become that of LeBron James and Anthony Davis in the City of Angels, no less.
It is Shams Charania himself who announced the arrival of the Frenchman in the NBA.
The Lakers are signing French forward Armel Traore on a two-way NBA contract, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 27, 2024
Armel Traoré joins the recent tradition of French players signing this type of contract in the purple and gold franchise. But to avoid the experience being as short-lived as those of Sekou Doumbouya and Joël Ayayi, the one who played at ADA Blois this season will have to quickly show his best side. (Moving from Blois to Los Angeles, some have already had a vagal seizure for less than that.)
He will quickly have a golden opportunity to show what he can do on the court during the Las Vegas Summer League, which will take place from July 12 to 22. The winger will be right in the thick of things and will give us one more reason to follow the summer games in Nevada.
Armel Traoré was expected towards the end of the second round and given the speed of his signing with the Los Angeles Lakers, we want to be chauvinistic and bad tongues. If Bronny James was not his father’s son, the Frenchman would surely have been selected with the 55th pick. That’s it, it’s said.
Regardless, he joins Zaccharie Risacher, Alexandre Sarr, Tidjane Salaün, Pacôme Dadiet and Melvin Ajinça in the NBA and that’s a wonderful reason to be happy. The 2024 NBA Draft is definitely historic for French basketball.
Source texte : Shams Charania
2024-06-27 23:02:00
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