In 2021, French basketball is almost immobile on the field. But he’s moving backstage. Thursday, the mayor of Pau, François Bayrou, created a sensation by announcing the imminent takeover of Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez, beautiful asleep for fifteen years, by a group of American investors with three names from the NBA headlining former all-star winger (2003) Jamal Mahsburn
(48), ex-league vice-president and Vancouver coach Stu Jackson (65) and veteran Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino (68), two-time NCAA champion in 1996 (Kentucky) and 2013 (Louisville, title which was withdrawn from the varsity team for financial embezzlement involving Pitino), former NBA coach (New York, Boston), champion of Greece (2019, 2020) with Panathinaikos, currently in exercise at the ‘University of Iona (New York).
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