After a first fruitful version between 2017 and 2025, the French Basketball Federation renews its “Team France”. The extended selection that must take the Blues to a minimum cycle to the Los Angeles Olympics includes 58 players. Proportions similar to that of the 2017-2025 generation, where 61 players had participated in the 36 total qualification campaigns for Euro 2022 and 2025, as well as the 2019 and 2023 World Cups.
The Vices-Olympic Champions of Paris are there, exception make pensioners Nicolas Batum and Nando de Colo. The leaders Victor Wembanyama, Guerschon Yabusele or Rudy Gobert are obviously there, even if they can only be available during summer windows. The new generation Zaccharie Risacher, Alexandre Sarr or Bilal Coulibaly will do the same.
In total, there are a total of 13 to evolve across the Atlantic, among which is also Maxime Raynaud, who will discover the pro world after his NCAA course in Stanford, or Killian Hayes, who has mostly played in G-League this season, and which still does not have the slightest selection.
Le Team France Basket mis à jour
Avant le début de nouvelles échéances, le Team France Basket évolue. 18 joueurs intègrent cette liste dont Alexandre Sarr, Maxime Raynaud, Joan Beringer ou Noah Penda
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This contingent should grow, while Noa Essenue, Nolan Traoré, Joan Beringer or Noah Penda are also in this Team France before being probably retained in the first round of the next draft on June 25. The new faces evolving in particular in Europe are not lacking, with 22 players for the moment not capped and 18 who had never been integrated until then into the France group.
“” The Team France Basket project has proven itself for eight years now and is the illustration of the important French basketball reservoir »» explained the coach Frédéric Fauxoux in a press release. “” With my technical staff we have exchanged at length to update the France Basket team and the many uncertainties around international calendars make it necessary to create a wide group and which will be, I am sure, led to evolve in the coming weeks. French basketball is aware that it will frequently have to do without its NBA and Euroleague players and the performance, involvement and talent of the elements that evolve in other leagues around the world are essential for the success of the Blues. I hope that this France Basket team is a source of motivation for those who are today as for those who aspire to join it.“”
Note that despite his return to the old continent, in Spain, Thomas Heurtel is not in this team France. Another former important player of Vincent Collet who left for a time in Russia, Amath M'baye is not from this list either, even if the rumor of his signature next season in Paris Basketball could open the way to a selection.
The entire French team
Leaders: Andrew Albicy (Gran Canaria), Joël Ayayi (Bourg-en-Bresse), Hugo Benitez (Bourg-en-Bresse), Sylvain Francisco (Zalgiris Kaunas), Killian Hayes (Long Island Nets), Théo Maledon (Asvel), Frank Ntilikina (Partizan Belgrade), Benjamin Sene (Nanterre) Matthew Strazel (Monaco), Nolan Traoré (Saint-Quentin)
Rear: Gérald Ayayi (Cholet), Milan Barbitch (Nanterre), Juhann Begarin (Monaco), Hugo Besson (Manisa), Malcolm Cazalon (Bilbao), Isaïa Cordinier (Virtus Bologna), Bilal Coulibaly (Washington Wizards), Evan Fournier (Olympiakos), Nadir Hifi (Paris) Adam Mokoka (Cluj-Napoca), Elie Okobo (Monaco), Rayan Rupert (Portland Trail Blazers)
AILLEIERS: Melvin Ajinça (ASVEL), Axel Bottle (Bahçehir Koleji), Sidy Cissoko (Portland Trail Blazers), Mohamed Diawara (Cholet), Ousmane Dieng (Oklahoma City Thunder), Sekou Doumbouya (Morabanc Andorra), Noa Essengue (Ratiopharm Ulm), William Howard (Nanterre), Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot (Baskonia Vitoria), Noah Penda (Le Mans), Zaccharie Risacher (Atlanta Hawks)
AILLEIERS-FORTS: Petr Cornelie (Monaco), Moussa Diabaté (Charlotte Hornets), Jaylen Hoard (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Damien Inglis (Yokohama), Yoan Makoundou (Ankara), Amina Noua (Granada), Yves Pons (Girona), Tidjane Salaün (Charlotte Hornets), Alexandre Sarr (Washington Wizards), Armel Traoré (Manresa), Guerschon Yabusele (Philadelphia 76ers)
Pivots: Joan Beringer (Cedevita Olimpija), Brice Dessert (Strasbourg), Moustapha Fall (Olympiakos), Rudy Gobert (Minnesota Timberwolves), Mam Jaiteh (Monaco), Jonathan Jeanne (Poitiers), Mathias Lessort (Panathinaïkos), Bodian Massa (Manresa) (Anadolou Efes), Maxime Raynaud (Stanford), Neal Sako (Asvel), Olivier Sarr (without club), Killian Tillie (Malaga), Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs)
