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When the San Antonio Spurs picked 19-year-old Frenchman Tony Parker in the first round of the 2001 NBA Draft, another French teenager, this one already in Texas as a foreign exchange student, intently watched his ascent.
Parker not only become just the third French player to play in the NBA. He became one of the league’s stars.
“I was a French guy in Texas when Tony was drafted, and I was telling everyone, ‘You should look for this guy!’” documentarian Florent Bodin told the
Current during a discussion of his new film
Tony Parker: The Final Shot. “I was very proud of him!”