The Clippers “Explained very clearly to me what they expected from me. As a player, that’s all you can ask for. I am in an environment where there is a culture of winning and a team that really wants to go for the title. We can’t ask for more », said the 35-year-old Frenchman.
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“Share my experience with the guys on the team”
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“No matter my role, I am grateful. It’s not about comparing myself to what I did in the past, but simply being the best I can be physically and sharing my experience with the guys on the team. ”, he continued. He made his NBA debut in 2007 at the Chicago Bulls until 206 when he joined the New York Knicks.
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If the pandemic did not give Noah time to show that he had good minutes left on the floor, after almost a year of absence, the California franchise decided to keep it in its workforce to attack the end of season, from July 31 in the Disney World bubble in Florida.
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Third pivot in the Clippers’ rotation, behind Montrezl Harrell and the Croatian Ivica Zubac, Noah, who has not played since March 23, 2019, will try to bring his combativeness in defense and his experience. The Frenchman, who could even have played at the start of the season in Los Angeles, without a big cut in an Achilles tendon that occurred in late September just before his testing, has never lost sight of his goal, despite an operation and six months lost.
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“I knew if I hadn’t trained and that one day the Clippers called and I wasn’t ready, I would have had a lot of regrets. And that’s what drove me to train, this hope of joining this team. It was not a question of money. It was none of that. It was being able to end my career in a team with a common goal ”, he explained.
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