“I am a miracle and I am aware of it”: George Eddy, the voice of basketball, recounts his cardiac arrest

2023-08-30 19:00:10

Tuesday July 4, 2023. On the playground – an outdoor basketball court – in Chatou (Yvelines), George Eddy continues to have fun with a ball. At 67, the former trigger of Bagnolet, Caen and Racing in National 1 (the ancestor of the Betclic Elite) in the early 1980s shows that he has lost none of his skill. Suddenly, the voice of basketball on Canal + for 40 years, the one that has endeared the NBA to generations, the most endearing American accent of the French audiovisual landscape is silent. Suddenly, George Eddy collapses.