Sacred Sunday evening with OKC at the expense of Indiana, Ousmane Dieng, Thunder’s end of rotation player, has become the seventh French in history to be titled NBA champion.
And seven! Ousmane Dieng (22) joined the list of French champions of NBA on Sunday evening after the title of OKC (the first of the Oklahoma franchise), validated Sunday evening with the Thunder at home during the match 7 at the expense of private pacers from the start of the meeting of their leader and leader Tyrese Haliburton.
The former resident of the INSP drafted in eleventh position by the New York Knicks in 2022 was not one of the most used players this season by Mark Daigneault. No more than in this final (with six minutes of play in total, or even play-offs, in general, with 33 minutes in all and for everything on the seven games) which therefore saw the team in which he has been playing for three years (even if the French winger also regularly defended the colors of Blue Oklahoma City, in G League) to have the last word against Pascal Siakam and his teammates.
Twenty-two years after Tony Parker…
Nevertheless, the former resident of the JSA Bordeaux, who was treated just under eleven minutes of play per game this season, as had already been the case since his arrival in the NBA, is a good part of the rotation of the Thunder, certainly as a player at the end of the rotation.
In the same way as Tony Parker, four times titled with the San Antonio Spurs (in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014), Rodrigue Beaubois and Ian Mahinmi, crowned with Dallas in 2011, Rony Turiaf (Miami in 2012), Boris Diaw, who was one of the Parker teammates in 2014, and Axel Toupane, Milwaukee Bucks in 2021 and last French to add his name to the record before Dieng on Sunday evening, the native of Villeneuve-sur-Lot who is still waiting to know a first selection in the French team is now part of the closed circle of the Habs of NBA. Probably the promise of a career that should take off quickly.
