Basketball: A George record dominates Capela’s Hawks in NBA

Another case still open, but certainly impossible to beat: this Wednesday evening in the American capital, five French-speaking basketball players competed against each other on the floor of the Capital One Arena. Together, the French Bilal Coulibaly and Alexandre Sarr as well as the Swiss George, with the Wizards, as well as the Blue Zacharie Risacher and the Genevan Clint Capela, of the Hawks, compiled the trifle of 78 points and 138 minutes for French-speaking players .

Hard to beat in the history of this game… Especially since Sarr, George and Risacher were drafted this year and Coulibaly the year before. Opposite, Capela, who is entering his 11th NBA season, clearly looks like a glorious veteran. But at the Capital One Arena this time, it was Valaisan George who broke the screen. The former Monthey player, for his 4th NBA game, beat his benchmarks in terms of minutes of play (31), points (11), and stolen balls (3).

A few hours earlier, near his apartment in the Washington suburbs, the 20-year-old Swiss explained how much he was in his element in the North American league. This was confirmed by seeing him in a sadly empty room, with probably less than one place in three of the approximately 20,300 seats used. It’s a shame, because the young guard from the District of Columbia delivered the goods and ended up paying the scalp 133-120 of a team qualified for the play-in a few months ago.

Having the chance to go see Kyshawn George’s 5th game in the NBA was something fascinating, after being able to talk to him the day before. Because the young Helvetius showed the same qualities on the court as in the interview. On the pitch, despite his young age, he does not hesitate to bully his teammates, to make big gestures to replace them and to try his luck when the opportunity is there. It didn’t always work out and he ended up faltering at three points after two failures at the start of the game. But such a character is rare.

With two of his teammates drafted before him this summer, Montheysan is not yet in the marketing papers of his franchise. Despite the number of Swiss in the bays – we met plenty of them! – it was mainly French fans who could buy jerseys adorned with the names of their favorite players. So we still managed to bring back two precious overcoats. And given his meteoric progress in recent days, there is no doubt that Kyshawn George will sell a lot of jerseys with No. 18 in the coming weeks.