NBA: the missed love story between Joakim Noah and New York

« Made in New York ». It is marked on his cap, in very large calligraphy letters, this beautiful day in July 2016 when Joakim Noah is presented to the Knicks, with whom he has just signed, on the eve of his tenth NBA season. The face of the double All-Star – with the Bulls, who drafted him in 2007 – radiates a smile magnified by his teeth of happiness, a family and familiar sign. The same as that of his father Yannick, a tennis player who fell in love with a city that will define the trajectory of his son, where little Joakim was born. Then returned, as a teenager, after an early childhood in France.

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