The wait was a little longer than expected for Sekou Doumbouya during the 2019 NBA Draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Announced regularly as a potential top 10 (especially in choice number 9, held by Washington), Sekou Doumbouya was finally chosen in 15th position by the Detroit Pistons, where he will evolve alongside Blake Griffin.
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The former CSP Limoges player will be the first “Frenchie” to wear the colors of the Michigan franchise, eliminated in the first round of the play-offs this year. Doumbouya is also the seventh French to be taken in the top 15 after Frank Ntilikina (8th in 2017), Joakim Noah (9th in 2007), Tariq Abdul-Wahad (11th in 1997), Jérôme Moïso (11th in 2000), Mickaël Pietrus (11th in 2003) and Frédéric Weis (15th in 1999).
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