How French basketball turned so many young talents into NBA players
The talent pool has never been richer.
For all sports, but especially for basketball.
And I think that there have been some NBA success stories now,
so that some kids that might have grown up thinking about playing football,
now start thinking about playing basketball.
Success breeds success.
These Olympics will be yet another sort of jumping up,
you know, trampoline effect.
This is the first time Wemba Nyama is playing with the senior team.
He's never played with the senior team,
including last summer when he decided to prepare for the NBA season.
And so I think that there will be an outsized attention
placed on the French basketball team.
Honestly, it can only be pleasant,
because finally we have the light on us.
And frankly, it's something really good.
Basketball here in France,
before it wasn't something that the French liked.
Now it's starting to grow, so it's great.