Jonathan Jeanne, basketball player broken by an illness he did not have: “My story can inspire”. Suffering from Marfan syndrome and banned from playing in France for years, Jonathan Jeanne now plays in Poitiers, in Pro B.
The former great hope of French basketball, promised a golden future in the NBA, had become a pariah. His name and his “atypical physique”, as he himself defines it – with his 2.17 m under the gauge for barely 100 kg and 2.35 m wingspan – had disappeared from the professional landscape.