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Tony Parker: "To last, that's what makes the difference between the good guys and the legends"

2021-11-09T16:20:10.705Z


INTERVIEW - For a young retiree, his agenda remains precise. Half an hour flat with the basketball star, serial entrepreneur and mentor of French youth.


He's supposed to be retired ... But only basketball courts.

Tony Parker prepared his post-NBA life so well in advance that he gave himself no respite before diving at 100 per hour in all-out projects.

His credo: learn, undertake and give back what he has received to a new generation.

The greatest champion in the history of French basketball, now 39 years old, will have spent 17 seasons at the highest level in the NBA, won four titles, been six times All-Star and was named once MVP (best player of the year).

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While waiting to invest in French vineyards, or even to succeed Jean-Michel Aulas at the head of Olympique Lyonnais, he is both president of the Asvel basketball club, shareholder of a ski resort in the Vercors and at the origin of the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy in Lyon, a training center for 14-20 year olds combining sport and education.

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Source: lefigaro

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