It's official: the NBA will therefore broadcast all the championship matches of Boulogne-Levallois, where the great French hope Victor Wembanyama (18), the announced star of the next few years, plays.
The NBA today announced that all Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 games – featuring French star and top 2023 NBA Draft prospect Victor Wembanyama – will be available for free on the new NBA App.
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The meetings of the Metropolitans 92 during the regular season of Betclic Elite (as well as possible play-offs) will be offered "free" and "live" on the NBA App from Saturday and their trip to Bourg-en-Bresse at occasion of the 7th day (20 hours).
Will also be broadcast on this new application launched a month ago the Leaders Cup, which will take place from February 17 to 19 in Saint-Chamond (Loire) the eight best teams of the first leg, the All Stars Game on December 29 in Bercy, and some play-off matches.
The prestigious American basketball league contacted its French counterpart less than a month ago, for a deal closed extremely quickly due to the excitement around the French prodigy and the desire to be able to broadcast its matches very quickly.
Officially, the NBA has also got hold of all the rights to the Betclic Elite, but can obviously choose which match will be broadcast on its channels.
And she has made clear her intention to focus on the Wembanyama "Mets".
The broadcast of geo-blocked matches in France
The matches will be geo-blocked in France in particular, where BeIn Sports broadcasts the championship: “The matches will be accessible on the NBA App on the North American continent and other regions of the world” explains a press release from the National Basketball League. (LNB).
The Betclic Elite will be “the first championship not affiliated with the NBA” to be broadcast live on the NBA App.
Above all, this agreement will give the Frenchman better exposure on the American market, as well as higher quality images than those currently running on all social networks since the buzz about the young French prodigy began.
This new exposure will also, of course, apply to all the teams and players who will cross his path, while the French League remains one of the major pools of talent for the NBA in Europe.
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The National Basketball League should also, with this unprecedented agreement, begin to reflect on the quality of its production since certain matches, which are not broadcast on BeIn Sports, are only filmed using a single automated camera that tracks player movement.
Changes that, however, may take time to materialize.
Wembanyama (18 years old, 2.21m) has been panicking the American league since a promotional tour with the "Mets" at the beginning of October near Las Vegas, organized at the initiative of the NBA in order to make him better known to fans, players, recruiters and managers.
His two performances against the Ignite team of G-League, a league created and managed by the NBA, reinforced his status as a big favorite for the next draft, in June 2023.
After these two meetings, punctuated by 37 and 36 points and class action, almost never seen for a player of this size and wingspan (2.43 m), LeBron James compared him to "an alien ".
For his part, Tony Parker, the president of Asvel, was also enthusiastic about the one who spent last season in his club: “The most important thing is that he stays in good health.
If he does, he'll be number one in the 2023 draft and change the franchise he'll go to.
I wish him a career like Tim Duncan
(his ex-teammate in San Antonio)
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