Within the wake of the report contingent of 14 French gamers presently within the NBA, notably Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs, coaches in the identical nation try to settle within the extremely aggressive North American basketball league.
“French contact intrigues,” mentioned Max Lefère, deputy coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, the place his compatriot Rudy Gobert performs. However worldwide coaches – no matter their nationality – are properly conscious of the difficulties in integrating into the “huge league”, the place the common season ends on Sunday, April 13. “Individuals are much more patriotic in coaching than on the degree of gamers. They’re very pleased with basketball schooling,” mentioned Guillaume, coach of the French membership Le Mans, who maintains fixed contact with “this different world”.
The NBA opened as much as the remainder of the world on the flip of the 2000s, below the course of former curator David Stern, however the franchises and their house owners stay reluctant to belief worldwide coaches, whose basketball tradition is completely different. Solely three of the 30 NBA groups are led by Europeans: the Brooklyn Nets, with the Spaniard Jordi Fernandez, the Raptors of Toronto, with Darko Rajakovic from Serbia, and the Grizzlies of Memphis, with Tuomas Iisalo de Finland, a former coach of Paris, who was promoted two weeks in the past.
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