The question has come up many times for 48 hours, since the announcement of Victor Wembanyama’s package for EuroBasket. “The perfect opportunity to bring in Joel Embiid? » Spoiler not at all, already because Victor was not at all guaranteed to be in the twelve and, more importantly, Joel does not have a passport and he has just had surgery on his hand.
This is obviously the favorite topic of conversation for French basketball players in recent weeks. Since the idea put forward to see one day Joel Embiid put on the jersey of the French team, wrestling fights have been going well between the followers of ethics with a capital E and those who, after all, believe that the ethic… is rather comfortable when you sit on it, “ear anyway the others do it too”. But that is not the debate, an interminable debate which will come back to the table very quickly, because the news of the day will above all be able to allow us to move on and to project ourselves for good towards what interests us: Euro Basket in September. And concerning the Euro and the absence of Wemby who could have… in short, you have understood, the GM of the Blues Boris Diaw (it slaps) answered questions from the team yesterday and he quickly set the record straight.
“His application for naturalization has been accepted. We know that he is still waiting for a French passport. When he has obtained it, he can start the process and apply for a FIBA license for the national team. He would have liked to play this summer if he had not been injured. But he underwent hand surgery and did not return to basketball. For him as for Victor Wembanyama it would be too fair (for the Euro). »
Go shoo, that’s done, thank you for moving on, to Vincent Collet’s racket at the Euro for example. Rudy Gobert, Moustapha Fall and Vincent Poirier should play the lighthouses, Guerschon Yabusele and Amath MBaye have a good chance of coming to support the big guys at post 4 and Mam Jaiteh can also believe it. It is in these six that Vince Coco will have to draw to impose French power on the post, so no Jojo, not this time, not yet, we take the opportunity to give you the list of the 16 preselected players here ( 17 minus Vic) for the future title of European champions.
Everything in its time, and for the moment Joel Embiid will therefore concentrate in order to jump as well as possible in his 2022-23 season with the Sixers, while not forgetting to stream the matches of the Blues at the Euro. Don’t forget to activate the Twitter notifications, because when you see how Jojo analyzes the Tour de France, you can’t wait to see him take aim at Thomas Heurtel’s shots.