The match between Cholet and Asvel has not finished making waves. This Sunday, during the Villeurbanne victory (82-73), Norris Cole played for 40 seconds while the Asvel staff knew that his US leader had just been declared positive for Covid-19.
“He was listed in the starting five on the scoresheet. We could not remove it, “said Freddy Fauthoux, who replaced coach TJ Parker, himself affected by the virus, thus taking refuge behind a point of settlement of the National Basketball League.
This gruesome situation had the gift of angering Gilles Bourdouleix, the mayor of Cholet. In a tweet published several minutes after the meeting, the town councilor announced that he intended to initiate criminal proceedings against the LNB and the Lyon-Villeurbanne club.
As Ouest France recalls, Gilles Bourdouleix “had already got carried away two weeks ago against the League in the management of the positive then negative test of Lasan Kromah, the US winger of Cholet.”
In a second message posted on Twitter, he went even further by asserting that the Meilleraie room will no longer host “any match … as long as French basketball is managed by the irresponsible of the National League.”
