Victor Wembanyama still wants to play at the Eurobasket?

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Preparations for Euro 2025 are set to begin at the end of July—five months after Wembanyama’s last game. In addition to the 2024 Rookie of the Year, other French NBA players have expressed their interest. “Boris (Diaw, general manager of the French team) saw them during two or three trips to the U.S. this season. As of now, 100% of the players have told us they’re interested in joining,” added Fauthoux, who also spoke about Zaccharie Risacher (Atlanta) and Alexandre Sarr (Washington), both in the race for Rookie of the Year. “They’re close to being pre-selected. These are two very promising players with a lot of talent, and both are getting playing time in the NBA, which is very important for me. For potential selection, it’s essential, especially considering the competition from EuroLeague, EuroCup, and Champions League players,” Fauthoux emphasized.

The unreal triple boosted an already monster night for Giddey, who earned his fifth triple-double of the season with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists. Giddey’s game-winner also capped a game-changing Bulls shooting performance to earn the comeback win, which saw them hit 11 of 14 3s to best the Lakers’ 1-of-9 mark in the final frame. “As soon as it left my fingertips, it looked good,” Giddey said of his game-winning shot. “And that’s kind of why I held my follow-through the whole time. I had that feeling when it left. It looked straight. It felt good. It was a special night, obviously. A great comeback win. I’ll enjoy this one.”

The bar to clear for anything to register as truly shocking for this season’s Los Angeles Lakers is pretty high after their Luka Doncic trade stunned the basketball world last month, but the buzzer-beating results of back-to-back games in the past 48 hours certainly would qualify. A day after LeBron James was L.A.’s hero with a tip-in to beat the Indiana Pacers as time expired, he was part of the Lakers’ unraveling in a 119-117 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night that Josh Giddey won with a 47-foot 3-pointer from beyond half court. “Devastation,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said after the loss. “It’s a hell of a way to lose a basketball game.”

Sarr’s scoring is night and day compared to the start of the season. The No. 2 overall pick averaged just eight points per game on 29.7 percent shooting (23.8 percent 3 PT) across 24.2 minutes in October but is posting 17.2 points on a 41.8 percent clip (36.4 percent 3 PT) across 27.6 minutes in March. “I feel like we’ve just been playing really good basketball, team basketball,” Poole continued. “Everybody’s been on the court long enough to learn each other’s strengths. I think we got a really good chemistry going on on both sides of the ball. Credit to Alex for sticking with it and continuing to improve and shush a lot of the noise that we heard coming into the season.”

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