France coach Vincent Collet has selected 13 players for the primary squad for the upcoming Eurobasket Qualifiers matches vs Great Britain and Germany, without including any NBA or Euroleague players.<\/p>\n
Collet stated, in a press release of the French Basketball Federation, the following: \u201cWith Patrick Beesley we anticipated a number of things. I had contacted the NBA players in the weeks leading up to this announcement, all the players I was able to contact were very excited to be able to play in this window. Unfortunately, the NBA refused to release players for this window and so we built a team accordingly. Evan Fournier, Nicolas Batum, Vincent Poirier, Frank Ntilikina, and Timoth\u00e9 Luwawu-Cabarrot were contented, all were enthusiastic. I called them today to explain the situation, most have already answered me. I am also disappointed, I think it was a good opportunity, both to strengthen our team but also to work for the future, knowing that we did not have a meeting in the past summer. We have to take note\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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