🏀0️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ Vincent Collet
Meet Vincent Collet, the former player-turned-coach whose transatlantic hoops influences and relationships inform his work with professional teams, as well as that with Team France.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Melissa Diawakana
Meet Melissa Diawakana, a former professional player-turned-skills trainer, graduated professional coach, speaker, and media consultant who spun a passion for basketball into a career and passport to the world.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣6️⃣ Mah Minthe
Meet Mah Minthe, a student-athlete transcending transatlantic ties through basketball to live her version of the “American Dream” on and off the court.
⛳🏀📺0️⃣3️⃣4️⃣Sébastien Audoux
Meet Sébastien Audoux, a veteran broadcast journalist who with Canal + helped translate via golf and basketball.
🏀0️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ Bob Riley
Meet Bob Riley, the former Atlanta Hawk who helped enrich the French game and national team as one of the first U.S.-born naturalized Frenchmen to play for Les Bleus in the 1970s.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣8️⃣ Bill Cain
Meet Bill Cain, the New York native who translated his NCAA student-athlete activist experience into a role as a sports ambassador for the United States, France, and Les Bleus in basketball.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ Tariq Abdul-Wahad
Meet Tariq Abdul-Wahad, the basketballer who, following an NCAA career with the University of Michigan and San Jose State, was the first Frenchman to play in the NBA in 1997.
🏀🗞0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ Arnaud Lecomte
Meet Arnaud Lecomte, a basketball journalist for L’Équipe who has covered and translated the NBA for French audiences since 1992.
🏀🔍0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Jon Pastuszek
Meet Jon Pastuszek, an international basketball scout helping to identify the next wave of players looking to realize their hoops dreams in the NBA.
Mapping the Connections
The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.
Blue = From the United States to France. Red = From France to the United States.