Last Tuesday, the French Federation of Basketball and their head coach Frederic Fauthoux announced a 58-man preliminary roster for the men’s national team in preparation for EuroBasket 2025 which will be from Aug. 27 through Sept. 14 in Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia.
The roster which can be found here, also includes two Washington Wizards players in Bilal Coulibaly and Alex Sarr. Coulibaly played for Les Bleus last year in the 2024 Olympics winning a silver medal though he was also a reserve player. But that’s fine. EuroBasket could give Coulibaly a chance to play more minutes at the international level.