Tony Parker reinvents himself. The basketball star will join the investor jury for the fourth season of “Who wants to be my partner?” », the M6 show which connects aspiring entrepreneurs and potential financiers, announced the channel and the former NBA player on Tuesday, the eve of the start of filming.
“This year, you will have to count on me,” said the president of ASVEL, the Villeurbanne basketball club, in a video posted on his social networks and filmed on the set of the show.
From captain to businessman
Since his retirement from sports in 2019, the former leader of the French team and four-time NBA champion has reconverted into a businessman, with the fortune accumulated during his career with the San Antonio Spurs, where his salary reached $12 million per season during his prime.
At the head of the company Infinity Nine Group – named in reference to the number 9 on his Spurs jersey – the forty-year-old invests in areas as varied as audiovisual production, horse breeding, ski resorts and even wine. By joining “Who wants to be my partner?” “, Tony Parker will thus “bring his entrepreneurial spirit” and a “very useful international perspective”, commented the deputy general director of M6 programs (magazines and documentaries) Jonathan Curiel in a statement to AFP.