BASKETBALL – All three selected among the first six choices of the 2024 Draft, Zaccharie Risacher, Alexandre Sarr and Tidjane Salaün (19 years old) will take their first steps in this NBA season, which starts on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday
Forget the possible first back to back of the Celtics for more than half a century or hype disproportionate (and so US) around the tandem LeBron-Bronny James to Lakers. No, the main interest of this season NBA 2024-2025, which attacks on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, will be to see how a trio of Frenchies still unknown across the Atlantic will manage to “discard” three almost insignificant franchises in the eyes of the French public. Our basketball has never had two players reach the first six places in the NBA Draft.
Well, imagine that our team is so prominent that it placed three, on June 26, with Zaccharie Risacher (number 1, Atlanta), Alexandre Sarr (No. 2, Washington) and Tidjane Salaün (No. 6, Charlotte). The other side of the coin for these promising 19-year-old players: the higher you are chosen, the more you typically end up in a team in distress, whose meager history in the American league hardly raises the crowds.
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