The Eurocup final, the equivalent of the Europa League for basketball players, is 100% French. A large, thick black curtain surrounds the entire court no.
2 of ‘The One Ball’, the largest indoor basketball center in the Paris region in Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-Saint-Denis) The few who pass through this opaque veil take a vow of silence: chatter prohibited and phone in their pocket in airplane mode. On the floor, the only language spoken is the universal language of basketball: English.