[HIGHLIGHTS] Basketball: 5 minutes to understand the affair which pits Thomas Heurtel against the Federation and deprives him of the Olympics

Thomas Heurtel is no longer selectable for the France team. The reason: the playmaker plays in Saint Petersburg.

However, due to the war in Ukraine, the French federation prohibits any player playing in Russia from wearing the tricolor jersey. The player and the Federation are now accusing each other of lying about the origin of the story. The affair has poisoned French basketball for eighteen months. The former leader of the Blues has no longer been selectable since he joined Zénith Saint-Petersburg in the fall of 2022.