Joel Embiid, a player with triple passports – Cameroonian, French, and American – left doubt surrounding his choice of selection for the Paris 2024 Games basketball tournament. At the end of a long suspense, he finally announced in October 2023 that he was opting for Team USA.
Just a few days after Jean-Pierre Siutat, president of the French Basketball Federation, was given an ultimatum to the native of Yaoundé in Cameroon. This Wednesday, during a press conference, Grant Hill, manager of the American team, announced the list of 12 American players selected for this summer's Olympics. Obviously Embiid is one of the twelve players called up, forming a new "Dream Team," 32 years after that of the Barcelona Games, with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, and even Kevin Durant. The way the former Olympic champion in 1996 went about seducing him.