The carnage continues for the French basketball team.
The leader of the French men’s team Frank Ntilikina will not participate in the Euro basketball (September 1-18), due to “pains“, announced Friday the French Basketball Federation (FFBB).
«Frank Ntilikina (1.93 m, 24 years old) suffers from pain which does not allow him to be physically at 100%. (He) is forced to forfeit“Wrote the FFBB in a press release published on Friday.
Ntilikina (22 selections) will not participate in the friendly match scheduled for Friday in Bologna against Italy (8:30 p.m.), the second of the preparation after Sunday’s victory against the Netherlands (89-65). He will leave the groupSaturday“, continued the FFBB.
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The package of the leader of the Dallas Mavericks is added to those of the interior phenomenon of Boulogne-Levallois Victor Wenbanyama (18), affected in the psoas and the pivot Moustapha Fall, injured in a knee. Point guard Andrew Albicy (thigh) was forced out of the rally early in preparation. The Olympic vice-champions therefore find themselves at 13 players three weeks before the start of the Euro.
Silver medalist at the Tokyo Games and bronze medalist at the 2019 World Cup in China, Frank Ntilikina won in the Blues group thanks to his qualities as a defender. France, 12th in the last Euro in 2017, will face Germany, Lithuania, Hungary, Bosnia and Slovenia in the group stage of the Euro.
