This is going to be a two part post…too much information to lay it all out at ounce.I
PART-1 “A Rebirth, From The Ashes…”
The future is bright for French basketball. Of course, Paris Basketball is not the only organization doing work in the shadows. But it IS the capital team. When you take a step back, and look at the path and the current success they have achieved, how far they have come in only eight years...you have to take your hat off to all involved.
With the phenomenal launch of the new stadium ready for the 2024 Olympic Games, this new ultra modern gymnasium is what basketball in Paris needed for over three decades…We finally got it!
My old gym in Levallois, Marcel Cerdan (Mets92), named after the historic love interest of Edith Piaf "The Môme” - I swear I didn’t make this up - was at the time, the most modern and sexiest gymnasium a professional team could play in, in all of France. I kid you not. My home for three seasons.
Proximity to the action on the floor, blue Italian marble exterior, limited court-side seating. One of the few gyms IN THE ENTIRE PARIS REGION, that was modern, had a parquet floor, equipped to record all of our games. That gym was 30 years old (LOL). I’ll give it to my other old team Nanterre 92, they get props for their renovation, but Marcel Cerdan was built from scratch!
Just look at how far Paris Basketball has come in such a short time!
Here is the game plan. How low, and how far, the organization, and basketball, have come. You be the judge…
STEP-1 : ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (Franceinfo : 3 Paris ile-de-frane - May 17th, 2016) "Paris City Hall Wants to Suspend Its Subsidy for Patrick Balkany's Paris-Levallois Basket” - https://lnkd.in/gRKv_M_8
On Tuesday, May 17 (2016), the Paris council will vote on a motion requesting the removal of the city's subsidy to the Paris-Levallois basketball club. For political reasons. (…)
That decision by the governing body and political leadership, overseen by the mayor’s office, to cancel the partnership and remove that €800,000 ($905,112) subsidy, set the stage for future, longterm investment and the arrival of David Kahn. Thus solidifying the future development of the Paris Basketball organization and team.
With that moral and ethical “Sword of Damocles" hanging over the proverbial neck of basketball, no longer in the picture and the reboot accomplished, phase two could now be implemented…
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