As the host team this summer, Les Bleus will field a roster with a 7-foot, MVP-level vacancy they were certain would be occupied.
PARIS — Jean-Pierre Siutat’s sixth-floor office at the French Basketball Federation is a 30-minute walk from Accor Arena, the 16,000-seat Parisian venue where the Olympic medal round will play out this summer. Siutat, 65, has been president of French basketball since 2010. You can see Chinatown and the River Seine from his corner office suite, which is adorned with pictures and memorabilia from the considerable success he has enjoyed with Les Bleus .
19 paragraph 6 of the Civil Code which provides that nationality can be granted to “a foreigner whose naturalization is of exceptional interest.” But that “exceptional interest” never materialized for France. The European championship, known as EuroBasket, was in September 2022, and when the French officials and Embiid began discussing a passport the previous spring, Team France wanted Embiid in the fold for that. , and were among the NBA stars playing for their respective home countries.
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