{"id":22170,"date":"2022-06-24T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/politique\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto"},"modified":"2022-06-24T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T18:10:48","slug":"cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto","title":{"rendered":"Cameroun-NBA : Christian Koloko recrut\u00e9 par les Raptors de Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Cameroun. <\/strong><\/span><b>Apr\u00e8s trois saisons dans la c\u00e9l\u00e9brissime universit\u00e9 d\u2019Arizona, le pivot camerounais Christian Junior Koloko a \u00e9t\u00e9 draft\u00e9 ce jeudi 23 juin par les Raptors de Toronto.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ils \u00e9taient sept africains au d\u00e9part, seuls trois ont obtenu le pick tant esp\u00e9r\u00e9. Aucun basketteur du continent n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi au premier tour par les diff\u00e9rentes franchises de la Ligue nord-am\u00e9ricaine, soit le top 30. Le plus haut grad\u00e9 est le Camerounais Christian Koloko. Le colosse de Douala (20 ans, 2m16 pour 102 kg) a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi en 33e position par les Toronto Raptors. Il pourra compter sur le soutien de son compatriote Pascal Siakam, joueur majeur de la franchise canadienne, et retrouvera sur les parquets, la star camerounaise de la Ligue, Pascal Embiid \u00e9videmment.<\/p>\n<p>Parmi les espoirs (\u00ab prospects \u00bb) qui seront appel\u00e9s rapidement \u00e0 se rendre sur la sc\u00e8ne et poser avec la casquette de leur future \u00e9quipe sur la t\u00eate, le Camerounais Christian Junior \u00ab C.J \u00bb Koloko, le pivot star d\u2019Arizona, qui sort d\u2019une saison sublime avec la meilleure \u00e9quipe universitaire 2021-2022 (34 victoires, 3 d\u00e9faites seulement). \u00ab Nous ne sommes qu\u2019\u00e0 quelques heures du grand soir, et je sens un peu la pression, car j\u2019ai h\u00e2te de savoir o\u00f9 je vais jouer la saison prochaine, sourit Koloko. Mais j\u2019ai boss\u00e9 dur pour en arriver l\u00e0, et je touche mon r\u00eave du bout des doigts. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e9 \u00e0 Douala, Koloko d\u00e9marre par le football avant de s\u2019orienter rapidement vers le basket-ball \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 12 ans, du fait d\u2019une forte pouss\u00e9e de croissance (il passe de 1m65 \u00e0 1m89 en 18 mois !). Au bout de quelques entra\u00eenements, il sent que la passion pour le ballon orange est grandissante, mais ne pense toujours pas \u00e0 un futur comme sportif de haut niveau, lui qui a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 un \u00e9tudiant brillant. \u00ab J\u2019\u00e9tais tr\u00e8s concentr\u00e9 sur l\u2019\u00e9cole, et je voulais \u00eatre un tr\u00e8s bon \u00e9tudiant avant de penser au sport, affirme-t-il. Je pense que le fait de vouloir \u00eatre comp\u00e9titif et de devenir le meilleur \u00e9l\u00e8ve possible m\u2019a aussi permis aujourd\u2019hui d\u2019utiliser ce m\u00eame \u00e9tat d\u2019esprit dans le basket. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>A noter aussi que cinq autres joueurs d\u2019origines africaines ont \u00e9t\u00e9 draft\u00e9s, cette ann\u00e9e : le Franco-S\u00e9n\u00e9galais Ousmane Dieng (11e, New York Knicks), les Am\u00e9ricano-Nig\u00e9rians Ochai Agbaji (14e, Cleveland Cavaliers) et Mark Williams (15e, Charlotte Hornets), ainsi que le Fran\u00e7ais d\u2019origine guin\u00e9enne et malienne Moussa Diabat\u00e9 (43e, Los Angeles Clippers) et le Franco-Ivoirien Isma\u00ebl Kamagat\u00e9 (46e, Detroit Pistons).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pour plus d&rsquo;informations et d&rsquo;analyses sur la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\">Cameroun<\/a>, suivez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Cameroun. 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Aucun basketteur du continent n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 choisi au premier tour par les [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":22169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,10],"tags":[36,50,49],"class_list":["post-22170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-french","category-sports","category-toutes-les-actualites","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-cameroun","tag-cameroun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cameroun-NBA : Christian Koloko recrut\u00e9 par les Raptors de Toronto - Cameroun<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Apr\u00e8s trois saisons dans la c\u00e9l\u00e9brissime universit\u00e9 d\u2019Arizona, le pivot camerounais Christian Junior Koloko a \u00e9t\u00e9 dra ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cameroun-NBA : Christian Koloko recrut\u00e9 par les Raptors de Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apr\u00e8s trois saisons dans la c\u00e9l\u00e9brissime universit\u00e9 d\u2019Arizona, le pivot camerounais Christian Junior Koloko a \u00e9t\u00e9 dra ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cameroun\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-24T15:54:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-24T18:10:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sites\/57\/2022\/06\/img-62b5fe1629b64.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditorfr\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u00c9crit par\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditorfr\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditorfr\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/#\/schema\/person\/2b1cf3cd81a31e3cd26889ca66d677f1\"},\"headline\":\"Cameroun-NBA : Christian Koloko recrut\u00e9 par les Raptors de Toronto\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-24T15:54:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-24T18:10:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto\"},\"wordCount\":457,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sites\/57\/2022\/06\/img-62b5fe1629b64.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Cameroun\",\"Cameroun\"],\"articleSection\":[\"homepage-french\",\"Sports\",\"Toutes les actualit\u00e9s\"],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cameroun\/sports\/cameroun-nba-christian-koloko-recrute-par-les-raptors-de-toronto\",\"name\":\"Cameroun-NBA : Christian Koloko recrut\u00e9 par les Raptors de Toronto - 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