For the first time, the NBA has secured the rights to broadcast a team outside its universe, which includes the G-League.
Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 was, until very recently, an unknown name for most basketball lovers, but a kid with a French passport, who celebrates his 19th birthday this Wednesday and measures 2.23 meters, put the formation of the outskirts of Paris on the map, and the pavilion fills up to watch them play.
Family of giants, with a past and present in sport
The reason for the sudden shift in attention has a name: Victor Wembanyama. Born in Le Chesnay, also on the outskirts of the French capital, he is the son of a former long jumper, Felix Wembanyama, and Elodie de Fautereau, who was a professional basketball player – for the record, his father is 1.98 meters and the mother has 1.91 meters. The eldest sister, Eve, was the first to follow the legacy of basketball and won, in 2017, the under-16 European championship with France.
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