The prospect of playing for the San Antonio Spurs alongside Victor Wembanyama would greatly please Evan Fournier, who would be “very surprised” to stay with the New York Knicks next season.
It will soon be a month since Victor Wembanyama landed in San Antonio. An experience that the young French interior (19 years old, 2.26 m), first choice of the NBA Draft, did not live alone since the Spurs also welcomed another Habs, Sidy Cissoko, selected in 44e position. Will the two neo-Texans soon be joined by a third Frenchy, him more experienced?
The rumor of a transfer of Evan Fournier circulates across the Atlantic and this prospect would please the current back of New York, completely boarded up on the side of “Big Apple”. “I would be very surprised to be a Knick next year. They pay me 18 million (dollars per season, editor’s note), they have no interest in keeping me.entrusted the framework of the Blues in the columns of the daily The team.
“Being with Victor would be great”
A rebound in San Antonio would be beneficial for him on two counts. Personally, he could already revive a stalled career. “I want a spot where I have fun again, where I can be myselfhe said. Would their game be more suited to me? It’s not the Spurs of 2014 anymore, huh. But it is sure that playing for Pop (Gregg Popovich), learning from him, it would be a pleasure, an honor. »
One year from the Paris Olympic Games, which he intends to play with the French team, playing alongside “Wemby” would also allow him to create automatisms with the nugget of French basketball: “Being with Victor, with a view to the Olympics, to start an agreement on the pitch, that would be great. But compared to my career, it will not change the job that I will have to accomplish. »
