Evan Fournier in New York, the challenge of a lifetime

STORY – After the silver medal at the Tokyo Games, the French full-back made his dream come true by joining the Knicks.

Good things come to those who wait for. “It would be fun to play for the Knicks», Declared Evan Fournier in March 2020. At the time, the French international back of 28 years was still under contract in Orlando and the franchise of New York swimming in the doldrums, without prospect, with an owner, James Dolan, who concentrated all the criticisms. “There is not the time“, Fournier added, even if New York is his”favorite city in USA“And Madison Square Garden, its”favorite room“. A year and a half later, the planets are aligned. Free at the end of his freelance of a few months in Boston, the Parisian signed a contract of 78 million dollars over four seasons in favor of the Knicks in the middle of an Olympic campaign which saw the Blues rise to the final in Tokyo. . The two parties had already flirted in recent months, so that the person concerned did “not surprisedTo see knocking on his door. “I was very happy», He confides to Figaro.

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