NBA superstar LeBron James is attentive to everything that happens on the basketball planet. And the performance of this athlete did not leave him indifferent.
Double gold medalist with Team USA, LeBron James arrives in Paris this summer with a new Dream Team to go for a third golden trinket, which would be the fifth consecutive for the United States team after 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021. With to accompany it a team worthy of the team that conquered the world in 1992, during the Barcelona Games…
It has been many years since we have seen so many NBA stars come with the selection for an international competition. LeBron James will team up with Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, Tyrese Haliburton, Kawhi Leonard and even Joel Embiid and Jayson Tatum, recently winner of the NBA with the Boston Celtics.
A basketball connoisseur, LeBron James is on the lookout for the slightest performance and does not hesitate to highlight performances from other leagues, particularly the WNBA, the American women’s basketball league. During the WNBA finals last October between the New York Liberty and the Las Vegas Aces, he notably split a tweet to praise the guard of the franchise of the Big Applea certain Marine Johannès.
Considered fast, very creative and even surprising, Marine Johannes started playing basketball in Pont-l’Évêque before joining Mondeville and then Bourges in 2016, where she would explode. Since 2019, she has shared her time between ASVEL in Lyon and the New York Liberty. In October 2023, she will become the best French scorer in the history of the WNBA finals from Game One.
The French guard has indeed splashed New York with her talent, with several spectacular actions. During the WNBA finals, the sixth player of the New York team notably showed the quality of her three-point shot, at more than 40% during the playoffs. During game 1 of the finals, the trained guard thus scored four long-distance shots, making the crowds at Madison Square Garden stand up and therefore LeBron James in front of his television. “She has an arm!!!! Her one-legged shot made me get up from my seat,” he wrote.
The 29-year-old Norman was this summer in Paris the playmaker and leader of a French team that won bronze in 2021 in Tokyo. Even if her address was tricky during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and even if the American team, which has won the last seven Olympic tournaments, remains unbeatable, the Bleues took a nice silver medal.