All eyes were on the USA-France men’s basketball Olympic gold medal match at the Paris Games this summer. While some fans were left starstruck by Steph Curry’s dagger threes that helped lift Team USA to a 98-87 win, retired NBA star Joakim Noah viewed the game from a wholly different perspective—that of an older, grizzled Frenchman.
Noah’s diverse background makes him more unique than most, as his father was a French professional tennis player and his mother was crowned Miss Sweden. The former Chicago Bulls All-Star center holds citizenship in three countries but chose to represent France for his international career.
