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Great interview! Boris is one my favorites.
And I love "I crashed on Tony's couch for 6 months until my contract
was extended." What TP doesn't have a guest room?
That's a joke, I think I read somewhere he was in the guest HOUSE.
Over the summer, Boris Diaw was interviewed by French sports news behemoth L'Equipe. Thanks to Olivier Friker, our special foreign correspondent, we have a translation of the revealing conversation in which Bobo answered a number of questions around the theme of "The Day."
THE DAY you delivered a perfect game.
- There is no perfect game. Once, with the junior French national team, during a tournament in Mannheim
(Germany), we played the US in quarter-finals. Tony was absent, I scored 30. We lost by one. A good
performance... individual performance!
THE DAY of your first "Marseillaise" (French National Anthem).
- Junior European championship, in Zadar. Moving. They didn't play it before the podium. I didn't make
believe and I didn't sing along then. Nowadays, I do sing.
THE DAY you first heard about the NBA.
- Saying I was born with a basketball in my hands sounds cliché, but it's exactly that. My mother [Elisabeth
Diaw-Riffiod, generally accepted as the greatest post player of her generation] was a fan of Julius Erving. I was still in the cradle when she took me to her training sessions and games in Mont-de-Marsan.
THE DAY you made her the proudest.
- Last year, when we won the European championship. I know because she had never said it before.
THE DAY you joined Spurs.
- A turning point. I left Charlotte in March 2012, in good terms, I gave up some of my salary to sign in a
club where I'd have a chance to contend for a le. I crashed on Tony's couch for 6 months until my contract
was extended.
Read the rest on http://www.poundingtherock.com/2014/...iaw-translated
Great interview! Boris is one my favorites.
And I love "I crashed on Tony's couch for 6 months until my contract
was extended." What TP doesn't have a guest room?
That's a joke, I think I read somewhere he was in the guest HOUSE.
Boris is a fun fun man.
bobo-ing
Boris is one cool character
Boris is a fine individual.
ya indeedGreat interview! Boris is one my favorites.
And I love "I crashed on Tony's couch for 6 months until my contract
was extended." What TP doesn't have a guest room?
That's a joke, I think I read somewhere he was in the guest HOUSE.
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