‘American Dream’ also bleeds French basketball
French basketball is quiet but growing talent. The NCAAThe American University Circuit, above its growing flexibility and the economic opportunities it offers, has become an irresistible attractive destination. As a result, the wave of young promises is crossing AtlanticLeave the National League, LNBHe is helpless on how he is not competing from his future stars or how financially evacuated.
According to Babasket, the size of the problem is evident when reviewing the list of players jumping to the United States only in 2025: Ilias The room (Dizone), Roman A house And Evans Bondur (Gravelins-Dickirk), Wilson Jacques (JL Borg), Clarence Masumba (Monaco), and Johan Guerrilla Beside Paul Baria (Asval). And bleeding may not stop there, because other names like Illian PeatrusBryce Dessert (Strasbourg), Nathan Sousa (Colet) About Muhammad Diakita (St.-Quentin) Weight to follow the same route.
The transformed atmosphere of great magnet NCAA. Since 2021, contracts Nil . If it adds a practically transfer system between universities without restrictions or penalties, the American university scene Europa.
Even players who have never thought of American choice before SousaThey are enclosed by the economic environmental system, which also benefits agents, whose commissions (10-20%) exceed Europeans, encourage them to represent their side Of.u.
For French clubs, implications are obscure. Come on holiday for years trained players with no compensation. Unlike the transfers controlled Fiba Or toward NBAThe NCAA Although the player has a contract in enforcement, it does not require a free letter, which is the possibility of clubs legal resistance. This situation checks the profitability and the sense of investment in the quarry, threatening to reduce the same foundations of the successful French training system.
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This phenomenon also affects NBA. Many now prefer to extend their university stay, income and exposure. Star player from NCAA You can win more than the second round option today Draft. Although university basketball is actual professionalized, the LNBAs with other European leagues, it helps its future march, without capturing the terms or compensation mechanisms NBA.
