He will be able to live his American dream! According to information from The teamVincent Collet would be on the verge of signing with the <a href="http://www.archysport.com/2022/01/omer-faruk-yurtseven-made-a-double-double-in-the-nba-miami-heat-won/" title="Ömer Faruk Yurtseven made a 'double-double' in the NBA, Miami Heat won”>Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA. The former coach of the Blues, who concluded his fifteen years on the bench of the French basketball team with a silver medal at the Paris Games this summer, should join the organizational chart of the Ohio franchise, in an external consultant role.
The person concerned has never hidden his desire to discover this universe. “There is curiosity,” he confided at the beginning of September during a press conference marking the end of his mandate at the head of the Blues.
In Cleveland, Collet will find Kenny Atkinson. The American coach, who has just been named head of the team, was his assistant on the French team during the Games. A collaboration appreciated by both coaches to the point that Atkinson asked his eldest to join him. A request which had been rejected by the leaders of Cleveland, the latter having already finalized the team’s staff.
“Kenny (Atkinson) would have liked to integrate me into his staff but he was unable to do so for political reasons, the GM made other choices,” Collet explained in September. Number 1 coach in the NBA? You can’t say that when you arrive, but if I go, it’s all in! If I had been one of Kenny’s first assistants, I would have been there to help him succeed and then…” Obviously the different parties ended up reaching an agreement.
Appointed special advisor to the National Technical Directorate within the French Federation at the end of the Games, Collet, who is currently in the United States, should retain his new functions and hold both hats.
