The high octane glitz of NBA basketball will descend on Paris on Thursday night as the San Antonio Spurs - who feature the French star Victor Wembanyama - take on the Indiana Pacers in the first of two regular season games.
VICTOR Wembanyama returned home to be the star of the show at the NBA’s games in Paris. Wemby, 21, paid a visit to the team which helped him kick start his basketball career. He played two
A group of Wembanyama’s former coaches, teammates and trainers greeted him and the Spurs at Palais des Sports Maurice Thorez on Monday.
The centerpiece of the Spurs’ trek to Paris has been Tuesday’s sojourn to Le Chesnay, where Wembanyama was on hand as the city cut the ribbon on an outdoor basketball court adjacent to the gym where he took some of his first fledgling jump shots as a kid.
In France, basketball is rapidly growing, and as the NBA looks to capitalize on that, they sent the San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers to Paris to play a series of two games this week. While Accor Arena would likely be sold out anyway, the draw of Victor Wembanyama has been enough for the entire City of Lights to be abuzz with excitement.
The French basketball star arrived in the Paris region on Monday with his partners from the San Antonio Spurs for two NBA games, and returned to his old club, Nanterre.
The NBA’s decision to bring two regular-season games to Paris, featuring the San Antonio Spurs and the Indiana Pacers, is more than just a strategic play to expand its global footprint. It’s a celebration - of basketball’s growing influence in France and of one of its brightest stars,
The Texas-based basketball franchise will play the first of its two NBA games in Paris against the Indiana Pacers on Thursday.
The San Antonio Spurs play the Indiana Pacers in Paris. The teams match up Saturday for the first time this season. San Antonio is 12-10 at home, and Indiana is
All Victor Wembanyama needed to do to get the fans in Paris into a full-blown frenzy was, it turned out, say hello into a microphone.
Victor Wembanyama scored 30 points in his first NBA game on his native French soil, Devin Vassell added 25 and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Indiana Pacers 140-110.