Today, the French press announced the MVP trophies of the last season for the ProA and ProB league. And the least one could say is that these votings have been dominated by young prospects.
As I Love Basket reports, Nando de Colo has won the MVP trophy of the regular season for the French players in the ProA. The 2nd place in that vote went to Nicolas Batum. De Colo is the youngest player to win this trophy since Antoine Rigaudeau who won this trophy at the tender age of 20 years. And the last winner of this trophy who was 21 like Nando de Colo was Boris Diaw. If these are signs, one could say that Nando will have a bright future. But it also gives credit to the extraordinary season of the young French player from Cholet who won already the MVP of the All-Star Game, MVP of the Semaine des As and now MVP of the regular season. And additionally, he plays the Final of the Coupe de France tonight, so maybe another trophy will be added to his extraordinary run this year. You can watch here some highlights of one of the last games of Nando de Colo.
And if this was not enough, the MVP trophy of ProB went to Adrien Moerman. The young French PF who has been loaned to Nanterre from Roannne played a huge season in the second highest French league.
And finally, the trophy of the best young player of ProA went to Nicolas Batum, just ahead of Alexis Ajinca and Ludo Vaty.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Mathieu // May 19, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The good sign is we have talented young players in the Pro A. The bad news (is it really a news?) is that this league is WEAK.
2 Christophe // May 19, 2008 at 6:12 pm
but it is not even obvious to let young guys play in a weak league. so respect to the coaches who take this “risk”
3 Christophe // May 20, 2008 at 6:34 am
Nando de Colo MVP Clip: http://www.lnbtv.net/lecture_video.php?video=NandoDeColoLNBtv.wmv&titre=Troph%E9es%20LNB%20-%20Nando%20De%20Colo%20-%20MVP%20Fran%E7ais
Nicolas Batum MVP runner-up Clip: http://www.lnbtv.net/lecture_video.php?video=NicolasBatumLNBtv.wmv&titre=Troph%E9es%20LNB%20-%20Nicolas%20Batum%20-%202%E8me%20MVP%20Fran%E7ais
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