The ex-NBA star and former French international qualified with his club Biscarosse this Saturday against Coteaux du Luy (92-79).
Former NBA champion Boris Diaw, who came out of retirement this season to compete in the Coupe des Landes, qualified on Saturday with the Biscarrosse club for the semi-finals of this amateur event which stirs up passions.
Diaw’s team, which plays in Departmental 3, dismissed the Coteaux du Luy club (National 3) 92 to 79 in the Parentis arenas (Landes) in front of nearly 3,000 spectators, after starting the match with 42 points. advance due to the six divisions difference between the two teams. Diaw, 41, returned to competition this season with a group of friends at the end of their careers or retirees, including several former professionals, met as teenagers during his training years in Bordeaux, Mont-de-Marsan and Pau. He finished the game with 8 points.
The departmental competition, driven by historic village rivalries and nicknamed the “Landes World Cup”, arouses great enthusiasm locally. It should attract 8,000 people during the final organized in the Mont-de-Marsan arenas, twice as many as the average spectator for French championship matches.
“When we grow up here, that’s all we talk about. I always wanted to play it but my career took another path”Boris Diaw told AFP at the start of the season. “The only opportunity was now, in retirement, coming back with a group of friends.”
