2023-06-25 11:36:00
Selected by the Spurs in 44th position in the 2023 Draft, Sidy Cissoko will help Victor Wembanyama to perpetuate the tradition of the French in San Antonio. At the time of his presentation, the former Ignite team told the bottom of his arrival at Fort Alamo.
We expected to see a Frenchman with the Spurs jersey but it is indeed two Frenchis who will pose at media day with a new tunic. After Spain and Team Ignite in the G League, Sidy Cissoko tried his luck in the Draft and it paid off with a selection in the second round. If no one might really predict that the native of Saint Maurice would join the Spurs, he seemed to believe in his chances. Comments reported by Yann Ohnona of the newspaper The Team.
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“A week ago I was doing my workout [avec les Spurs, ndlr], and it went pretty well and I know they were interested in me for the Draft. I was scared because we were getting close to the end and I thought I wasn’t going to get drafted really. But in the end, they trusted my team, my family. Now I’m here with them and it’s a real pleasure.”
At the Spurs, Cissoko will find Victor Wembanyama, with whom he has often shared the floors but never in the same camp. The time has finally come for young talents to join forces.
“It’s crazy that we’ve come this far. We have always been in rivalry since the U9, U10 until U13. He was with the Hauts-de-Seine, the 92 and I with the 91. He won several tournaments with the Hauts-de-Seine and me too with the 91. It always went well but we didn’t think at all that we would be teammates one day in the NBA.”
It only remains to hope now that the two tricolor nuggets will be able to walk in the footsteps of Tony Parker on the side of Fort Alamo. With Gregg Popovich to launch their NBA careers, they mightn’t have asked for a better mentor.
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Text source: Yann Ohnona / The Team
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