Hosted by Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
About Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is a globally-recognized sports diplomacy expert and consultant whose pioneering work as a scholar-practitioner of basketball diplomacy and Franco-American sports diplomacy inscribes the power of individual lived experiences into the public record. Thanks to these blueprints, citizens worldwide can be empowered to be better sports diplomats – or to take inspiration from a sports diplomat’s playbook – in leveling-up their leadership, engagement, and storytelling abilities. Author of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA (Bloomsbury, 2023) and The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010 (Lexington Books, 2013), Lindsay directs the FranceAndUS project and has written for national and international media like TIME, CNN International, The Athletic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Tisch Institute for Global Sport, leading the institute’s new sports diplomacy track.
About the event
Join us for a lively conversation about the backstory to these phenomenon: how France became a basketball breeding ground, the cultural, technical and leadership ties that fostered this development, and the impact of French basketball within the NBA and WNBA.
San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama made history this year as the first French player named as an NBA All Star Game starter and is widely regarded as the future face of the league. Meanwhile the Denver Nuggets coaching team runs plays first developed by Les Bleues while U.S. sports commentators lace their on-air commentary with French phrases when covering theWNBA Golden State Valkyries’ trio of French basketballers.
The thrilling gold medal basketball showdowns between Team France and Team USA at the Paris 2024 Games wasn’t a fluke, and the legacies continue to craft hoop dreams today.
