By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
According to their agent, Bouna Ndiaye, the trio of the French free agents, Nicolas Batum, Evan Fournier and Ian Mahinmi will not play in the upcoming pre-Olympic qualifying tournament of Manila, Philippines.
The tournament will start on the 5ht of July and end on the 10th and during the same dates the three players who are going to be free agents, as Ndiaye explained in the TV show “Stade 2”, must be in the States, waiting to sign their new contracts: “At 100%, whatever happens, even if they have the will to come and play with the French national team, between the 1st of July and the date of signature , they will be in the United States”.
Rudy Gobert already announced that due to his injury will also be out of the team at least in the pre-Olympic tournament and there are still doubts about Nando De Colo, considering the fact that he will also be a free agent, interested on return to the NBA.