Basketball: Boris Diaw "confident" for the arrival of Joël Embiid in the French team

Will play, won't one day play in the France team with Rudy Gobert and Victor Wembanyama in a racket that will make the whole planet green with envy?

Boris Diaw the general manager of the France team sweeps the question of a pirouette: "No, he is not selected for this international window" laughs the former captain of the Blues with 247 selections on the sidelines of the gathering of the France team for the qualifying matches for the 2023 Cup this November 11 in Lithuania then November 14 in Pau against Bosnia.

"He" is the pivot of the Philadelphia Sixers in the NBA, Joël Embiid, in other words one of the best players on the planet.

Cameroonian by birth, the pivot obtained French nationality this summer.

He only needs a Fiba license (the international federation) to be able to be called up to the France team.

It is normally a formality.

Except that at the beginning of the fall, Joël Embiid threw a chill by also becoming naturalized American.

So, what's new in the file?

“There is no development compared to the last time we spoke, reports this November 8 the 2014 NBA champion. American nationality was something committed for quite some time, more for facilities of life in the United States.

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Does this new passport nevertheless call into question the one stamped with the motto "Liberty-Equality-Fraternity"?

Not in the eyes of the staff of the Blues who see no obstacle.

Relaunched on the fact of knowing if confidence was in order despite possible competition from the selection of the United States, which lacks a pivot of the very first order, Diaw answered a "yes" which does not suffer from any challenge.

Discovering Embiid in Blue during the 2023 World Cup and then for Paris 2024 therefore remains a high probability at this time.