For years, Jonathan Jeanne was an unwanted person. The former great hope of French basketball, promised a golden future in the NBA, had become a pariah. His name and his “atypical physique”, as he himself defines it – with his 2.17 m under the gauge for barely 100 kg and 2.35 m wingspan – had disappeared from the professional landscape.
His life changed in 2017, just a few days before the NBA draft where he was expected in the first round. After a series of medical tests, he was told that he suffered from Marfan syndrome. A systemic connective tissue disease that affects tall people and can cause dilation of the aorta. The diagnosis is final. Definitive… Even though it would have required a battery of additional tests to be validated. He can’t play basketball anymore. Neither in the NBA, nor in France… “Completely stopped. »
