2023-11-15 17:07:04
Marked by the passage of a generational comet named Victor Wembanyama, 2023 was a total year. “Wemby”, designated number 1 in the NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs, dazzled France, and even more so, the entire basketball world during a weightless season.
Monaco was the other big story, undisputed champion on the national scene undefeated in the play-offs and first representative of the French championship since 1997 to reach the Final Four of the Euroleague, relying on a team with firepower unprecedented.
The sign of the good health of French basketball, with growing media interest and golden prospects. Wembanyama’s absence from the France team for the World Cup seemed all the more damaging, in hindsight, as the Blues delivered their worst campaign of the modern era, eliminated in 48 hours flat. A resounding fiasco, which calls for an equally spectacular rebound in view of the Paris Olympic Games.
Yann Ohnona is a senior reporter, basketball specialist at L’Équipe, for whom he has covered, since 2010, the French Championship, the Euroleague, the NBA and the French teams. Yann Casseville, specialist journalist for more than a decade (Basket News, Basket Hebdo). He has also been the editor-in-chief of Basket Le Mag since 2016.
Basketball 2023 Guestbook – Yann Ohnona and Yann Casseville – Solar Editions – 128 pages – 29.99 euros – Publication on November 16, 2023
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