Zacharie Risacher (left) facing Kevon Looney during the NBA game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Golden State Warriors on November 20, 2024 in San Francisco. KYLE TERADA / USA TODAY SPORTS VIA REUTERS CON At only 19 years old, Zaccharie Risacher experiences the major life change he has experienced with quite disconcerting serenity
At only 19 years old, Zaccharie Risacher is experiencing the major life change he experienced in 2024 with rather disconcerting serenity. First called up, on June 27, during the NBA draft – the scholarship for players wishing to join the American league basketball – the young Frenchman, 2.07 meters tall, passed, in a few moments, from Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain prefecture, 62,000 inhabitants, in Atlanta, capital of the state of Georgia, a megalopolis of more than 6 million inhabitants in the south of the United States. A nugget of secular youth in Bourg-en-Bresse, it suddenly became rookie and number 10 of the Atlanta Hawks, who host the Cleveland Cavaliers, Friday November 29 at 8:30 p.m. (Paris time), in the NBA Cup.
“I am a simple person, and I really want to keep this simplicity. I am careful that no situation overwhelms me”explains Zacharie Risacher to Mondeat the end of November, after training. If basketball of course occupies the majority of his life, the Hawks winger makes a point of understanding the new world around him.
“I need to explore and get to know my surroundings to feel comfortablehe says. This new beginning allows me to assert myself more as a man and to discover new things, whether in terms of culture, language or the sporting world. » “When he arrived in Atlanta, he preferred to visit the Martin Luther King museum rather than the Coca-Cola museum, which he found a little fanciful”confirms Anthony Brossard, his individual trainer in Ain, who followed him to Georgia.
Carrying on the family tradition
Passionate about contemporary history, Zaccharie Risacher is particularly interested in the question of slavery and the history of Martinique, where his father, Stéphane, a former French international, is from. The young man satisfied his need for knowledge through reading: The Rebel. The America of Mohamed Aliby Judith Perrignon (Grasset, 2019) or Rue Cases-Nègres, by Joseph Zobel (Editions Présence Africaine, 1950), are among his bedside books. In his library, we also find the autobiographies of the former Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and the former Guadeloupean basketball player Florent Piétrus. “Biographies captivate me, because we have access to someone’s words, which are often a source of inspiration”he explains.
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