The fine flower (almost) of the NBA had met in Paris in order to do battle, in order to discover or rediscover France to the NBA, in order to discover or rediscover the NBA in France. Chicago Bulls vs Detroit Pistons, the poster was not crazy, but let’s not do our precious things and rather send the – quick – summary of this beautiful Franco-American evening!
The stats of this match that will not go down in the annals is right here
Paris was orange on January 19, 2023, Paris was orange, red and blue. Red like the Bulls, blue like the Pistons, and green for fun to finish the rainbow. The game ? As expected, it was as hectic in the stands as on the floor, and if the soccer players glimpsed in 2020 during the last Paris Game were rather stationed on the side of Saudi Arabia, we will still have been able to see in the spans of the Accor Arena these ladies and gentlemen Victor Wembanyama, Pharell Williams, Aya Nakamura and Magic Johnson, yeah we dared.
On the ground, therefore, basketball but not necessarily champagne basketball. TrashTalk had placed its pawns in the room but also commented the game live on YouTubeand all these beautiful people were able to enjoy in Mondovision the enormous performance of Killian Hayes, galvanized by the cheers of his public and author of an incredible… 2/13 in shooting. Whoops. Distribution at the start of the match, risk-taking in attack but everything will have been short this evening, no big deal, we’ll talk regarding it once more when it hits a 26 points at 10/14 on the evening of the final of the Olympic Games in a year and half.
An absent Cunningham, Kiki’s address as well, and therefore the Bulls who logically dominated Detroit, we’re not going to talk regarding it ten years either. Nikola Vucevic had a big start, Zach LaVine had a big second half, DeMar DeRozan was good all the time, Derrick Jones jumps high and we’re pretty much done. The lead remained on the Bulls side all evening, despite Bogdanovic’s shots and the good performance of Diallo, Ivey or Livers’ awakening at the end of the match, yes this sentence exists.
So we go on a 126-108 victory for the Bulls, which remains in the logic of things and anyway it is rarely the content of this kind of match that we remember. Because here we will rather remember Tony Parker, Ronny Turiaf, Mike Pietrus and Joakim Noah on the floor, we will also remember Jooks’ outfit we are not going to lie to each other, and who may well be able to get us the line of Saddiq Bey’s stats in three years, when we don’t even know her right now.
The NBA Paris Game 2023 is – already – behind us, can’t wait for 2024 to see Victor Wembanyama put 30 on the Knicks, or something like that. See you very quickly, La Vie en Rose, croissant baguette, coughed coughed!
