It was the place to be in France to vibrate on a Monday August 15th. One of those exhibition matches that are mounted almost under the coat, between a selection of the best high school students from California on tour in Europe and some young French hopefuls, most of them international in the youth field. 3,000 spectators at the Maurice Thorez gymnasium in Nanterre, including Batum, Wenbyamana, or PSG striker Ekitikewho only had eyes for one man: a certain “Bronnie” James, son of LeBron, and himself not too bad at basketball.
If he could not prevent the final defeat of his team, the 17-year-old young man, who could soon find his father in the NBA, feasted as best he could (25 points), notably sending a smash space in the first half that lifted the public and even padre LeBron, warm on his sofa in LA And yes, because “Bronnie” obliges, ESPN 2, specialized in broadcasting high school matches since the chain was the first to show on television a match of… LeBron James in 2002, had started on the spot, hurrying, according to our colleagues of the’Crew, Paul Biancardi, THE specialist in high school basketball in the US media. Do you even see the phenomenon.