In the 2023-24 season the Metropolitans under Victor Uebaniama reached the finals of France and this year that Alien is in the NBA, the team from the suburbs of Paris… was relegated to the PROB.

The conquest of the Eurocup by Paris kept the… light produced by basketball in the capital of France. But nothing can compare to what happened last season. When Victor Ubanyama was not in America, he was not shining in the NBA with the jersey of the San Antonio Spurs , but he was living in the suburb of Paris, Levallois-Perret and playing with the Metropolitans ’92 .

The 20-year-old, who suddenly became a superstar in the USA, from his very first year on the “magic planet”, in the 2023-24 season made the Metropolitans a terror on French soil. For everyone except Monaco .

Together with his friend and also rookie NBAer, Bilal Koulibaly (Washington Wizards), they had led the team to the finals of the French championship. Where they were defeated by Mike James and company, they nevertheless put on the map – especially Alien, as Ubanyama’s nickname is – a group that until then did not… exist. And it will hardly… exist again in the near future.

After Sunday’s (14/4) home defeat by Salon , Metropolitan, five games before the end of the LNB regular season, was also mathematically relegated to the second division of the country’s national championships. So, within a few months of the best season in the club’s history, came one of its worst moments. Without Uebaniama there is no… life.

Tim Frazier , who played in AEK last year and this year for a match with Prometheus , tried to save her, together with another former player of the Greek team, Axel Toupin (Olympiaco), but they didn’t even come close to the goal. their.