Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs warms up prior to the game against the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center on Oct. 20, 2023 in San Francisco
n Oct. 25, one of the most highly anticipated NBA rookies will debut in the San Antonio Spurs’ opening game of the 2023-24 season: 19-year-old Victor Wembanyama.
The team, composed mostly of university students from around the French capital, was one of the country’s elite of the era. It won French league titles and tournaments and featured members of the men’s national team on its roster, including longtime captain Roger Antoine,. The club also traveled throughout Europe, including behind the Iron Curtain, and North Africa, exposed along the way to different styles of play.
Several years later, another American, recruited by Feinberg, came to Paris to connect its basketball style to that flourishing across the Atlantic: Henry “Gentleman” Fields. By the 1960s, players like Boston Celtics star Bill Russell transformed the U.S. game into an ever-more vertical one, whereas its French counterpart was still centered on passes akin to a"ballet on the court." Fields broughtand techniques to France. Fields also modeled a U.S.
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