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Seven months of work. A weight of 1.8 kg for a little over 30 centimeters. Rest assured: this premature baby is doing wonderfully. Road Trip NBA, 258 pages, is the baby of Rémi Reverchon, journalist Bein Sports.
Posted to editions Amphora and officially released on Thursday, October 21, 2021, Road Trip NBA is a logbook. Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Memphis, Dallas, Detroit… Rémi Reverchon makes you discover the cities of the 30 NBA franchises and their culture. In a fun and entertaining way.
Nicolas Batum, Pau Gasol, Joakim Noah and company as guides
All while giving the floor to guides and witnesses; like Nicolas Batum, captain of the France team, who tells about his Charlotte (North Carolina), where he lived between 2015 and 2020. Pau Gasol, Joakim Noah, Nikola Vucevic, Isiah Thomas… The big names of the NBA have collaborated, for the occasion, with Rémi Reverchon.
The journalist from Bein Sports, in love with the orange ball, realizes his dream here:
“In my list of things to do before you die, I had two things: jump in a parachute and write a book. It was really on top of the things I dreamed of doing.”
Because if Rémi Reverchon is known for his passion for the NBA -and also for crossfit-, the journalist is also a book lover. “My mother always taught me to have a book in my hands,” he admits. I am someone who reads a lot. “
Rémi Reverchon in brief
Rémi Reverchon was born in 1985. Originally from La Rochelle, he spent a year studying in Colorado, in Greeley, before settling down for three years in Los Angeles, where he followed the Lakers of a certain Kobe Bryant .
In 2012, he returned to France for the launch of Bein Sports. Since then, he has participated in NBA Extra, the channel’s daily show, hosts the SNL every Sunday evening, and also comments on games. “There was a first golden age of the NBA, in France, with the Dream Team in 1992 [l’équipes américaine qui a participé aux JO de Barcelone, ndlr]. Today, assures Rémi Reverchon, we are experiencing a second golden age. There is a crazy craze. We can see that more and more French people are following the NBA. “
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How did it all start? “Amphora editions contacted me,” narrates Rémi Reverchon. Their project was to make a beautiful basketball book before the Christmas holidays. ”
But the initial project does not really convince Rémi Reverchon. He is not excited by the idea of creating a dictionary of NBA legends. For an entire weekend, the native of La Rochelle is racking his brains and sketching the outlines of his future book.
“I wanted to make a book that suits me”
Rémi Reverchon will take advantage of the NBA to tell about the United States and US culture. All of US culture. The spectrum is wide: the myth Prince in Minneapolis, the 2,238 meat restaurants in Texas, the amusement parks in Orlando, the assassination of Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the importance of Atlanta on the scene. hip-hop… We prefer to stop there so as not to spoil the pleasure of reading.
“I really wanted to make a book that suited me, with things that I love.”
For writing Road Trip NBA, Rémi Reverchon also opened the memory box and reveals some stories of his years spent in the United States.
Small and big moments, like this love letter to Carmelo Anthony, NBA figure he crossed paths with, in 2006, when he was still a young journalist… “There are personal anecdotes, he smiles. I tell about these cities, with my memories, but also my favorites. “
“To write, I put myself in a bubble”
But don’t think that “the birth” was easy. Between the daily show on Bein Sports, the play-off matches in the middle of the night and the writing of his book, Rémi Reverchon did not have time to be bored during the first half of the year 2021. Job, work, work… And a serious conditioning.
Like the NBA franchises that lock themselves in disney world in the middle of a pandemic to end the season, Rémi Reverchon puts himself in a bubble.
“Before I wrote a single line about a city, I would educate myself and learn everything there was to learn about it; the music, the local gastronomy, the great figures, the small and the big stories. I had to read. as much as possible, feed me on all the information. It really took a lot of research. “
Come on, the dates of the Road Trip NBA signing tour my good lady. I expect to eat and drink in each of your townships, and the local, thank you very much! #roadtripNBA pic.twitter.com/Ts4WnLgt1D
— Remi Reverchon (@SoFrenchProd) October 6, 2021
The result ? So he’s a beautiful baby. “During the signing sessions with the public, there is really excitement, enthuses the author. The people are delighted, they have big smiles. It’s super cool ! Rémi Reverchon’s book should be adopted by many NBA fans.
Road Trip NBA, by Rémi Reverchon, published by Amphora. Price: € 34.95.
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