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The beautiful adventure in play-offs NBA ended on 1is July 2021 for Nicolas batum and the Los Angeles Clippers, eliminated in the final of the Western Conference by Phoenix.
Now place for Tokyo Olympics! The Norman basketball player trained in Pont-l’Évêque and in Caen (Calvados) will meet the Blues this Friday, in Paris, before flying to Japan next week.
In the meantime, we come back in a few key figures on the superb American season of our national Batman, that of the renaissance.
1
Like the first time Nicolas Batum reached the NBA conference finals. It was also a big first for the Los Angeles Clippers, who had never made it past the semi-finals.
And Californians could have hoped for better if their star Kawhi Leonard had not been injured against the Utah Jazz, and had not missed the entire series against the Phoenix Suns.
2,564
This is in millions of dollars the salary received by the French this year. This amount corresponds to the veteran minimum, the “minimum wage” for players with more than 10 years of experience in the American league. Yes, it makes you dream …
Batum has accumulated 155 million earnings to date in his 13-year career in the United States. Free, the Norman will now be able to monetize his talent on the “free agents” market. His “3-and-D” profile, these good defenders and skilful players from afar, is currently in high demand and should allow him to receive some great offers.
3
Like the third Olympic Games that Nicolas will play with the France team this summer. Eliminated in the quarter-finals in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016, each time by the Spanish archenemy, the Blues will be keen to win a medal in Tokyo.
Behind the untouchable American team, there is room, especially as the various Olympic qualifying tournaments have already ruled out serious candidates for the podium: neither Serbia, nor Croatia, nor Greece, nor Lithuania and nor Canada. will not be traveling to Japan.
4
Like post 4, that of a strong winger, which Nicolas Batum has regularly occupied this season. A winger by training, the Frenchman has adapted perfectly to the evolution of the game in the NBA, always more focused on the outside shoot.
Adept at “small ball”, a tactic which consists of playing with a small 5 major and without a real interior, his coach Tyronn Lue has often used it at post 4. This will undoubtedly also be the case with the Blues in Tokyo.
8
As the number of days off Nicolas Batum had between the end of his season with the Clippers, the 1is July, and the start of his preparation with the France team, which he joins this Friday, July 9.
It is little, very little, but the Norman had no real choice, the coronavirus pandemic having generated a very tight international schedule.
Thx to all the #ClipperNation for the support. Thx to the organization, the fans and my teammates for believing in me. Thank you for welcoming me and my family as one of your own since day one.
Nothing can be taken for granted in life. The journey continues, next stop: Tokyo! pic.twitter.com/Z9CexahJrX
– Nicolas Batum (@ nicolas88batum) July 1, 2021
40,4
This is Nicolas Batum’s three-point success percentage this year, the 2e best of his career. It is generally considered that a 40% player constitutes a real danger at long distance.
In distress during his last seasons with the Hornets, the Norman has regained confidence in his shoot in Los Angeles. Bodes well for the Blues.
86
This is the number of NBA matches played by Nicolas Batum in just over 7 months: 67 regular season and 19 play-offs. A hell of a rhythm, interspersed with endless plane trips across the United States.
The Norman spent an average of 27 minutes on the floor. At first, he became 6e man in february. Far from being a sanction, this adjustment allowed the American Marcus Morris to find a place in the 5 that suited him better.
And as we often say in the NBA: what matters is to finish the matches, not to start them. And be sure of one thing, when a meeting was close, Batum was on the pitch in the “money time”.
135
This is Nicolas Batum’s “+/-” differential over all of the 2021 play-offs, the highest of the Clippers.
This data corresponds to the points gap widened by his team when he was in the field, proof of the essential contribution of the French despite statistics far from being flamboyant: 8.1 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2, 1 assists.
145
The number of selections of Nicolas Batum before starting a new campaign with the Blues. At 32, the Norman can legitimately aim for 200 capes by the end of his career with the France team, which should lead him to the Paris Olympics in 2024.
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