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What club in Île-de-France – but more generally in France – can boast of hosting a former Prime Minister and a Hollywood star for a simple league match? PSG, of course, and its football stars. But not only. For several weeks, the Boulogne-Levallois basketball club has been at the heart of “unprecedented enthusiasm” in the words of its president Alain Bouvard. A unique hype that bears the hallmark of Victor Wembanyama. The nugget of French basketball. An 18-year-old kid “with the physique of a very big pivot (2.21 m without shoes)” but who “plays like a second back” specifies his coach, and coach of the Blues, Vincent Collet.