The basketball player is the first Frenchman to start the NBA All-Star Game, an annual match between the best players. “It’s perfectly deserved,” applauds the sports journalist.
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Victor Wembanyama “is destined to become the best basketball player in the world”estimates George Eddy, interviewed Tuesday January 20 by the sports department of Radio France. The historic voice of basketball in France reacts to the selection as a starter of the 2m26 French player in the NBA All-Star Game, an annual match between the best players from the Eastern and Western Conferences of the NBA. This year, the formula is modified, it will be the United States against internationals. The Spurs interior is the first Frenchman to have this honor in NBA history.
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“He’s the new LeBron James, the new Michael Jordan,” enthuses the sports journalist, even though neither Rudy Gobert, nor Joakim Noah, nor even Tony Parker, had started an All-Star match. “He is among the ten best players in the NBA today,” whatever “in points, in rebounds, in blocks”. “He’s the best defender in the NBA for all experts,” continues George Eddy, who highlights the qualities of a “2m26 player” who has so much ease with the ball “only a playmaker, who shoots three points, who dominates the game on defense.”
“He’s very young, it’s an achievement early in his career. It’s perfectly deserved,” judge George Eddy, while Victor Wembenyama begins his third season in the American championship, after a second season “marred by medical problems.” “If he avoids serious injuries, he is destined to become the best basketball player in the world”prophesies the Franco-American commentator.
