As many stars visible in the Parisian sky as on the steps of the Arena Bercy. During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, following the big American victory against Brazil (122-87), Kevin Durant posted a photo with an impressive cast on his X account.
The twelve basketball players from Team USA took possession and position in front of the Parisian room. The experienced Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Durant took their place on the highest steps, flanked by Joel Embiid, to whom the French spectators did not reserve the warmest of welcomes while the pivot of the Philadelphia Sixers preferred the jersey American with French liquette.
Durant makes history again. Further down, the young guard, represented by Jayson Tatum and Anthony Edwards, is just as comfortable on the imposing stone staircase. “Records are made to be broken, I will hold on to them until another great player comes to surpass me…” commented Durant on X.
The 35-year-old will have the opportunity to break the 500-point mark at the Olympics on Thursday, in the semi-final against Nikola Jokic's Serbia.
Almost two weeks since the Olympics began, but the nights of Paris, as usual during the first half of August, are resting, as if they were fallow, strangely peaceful.
In the evening, at night, you have to search for a long time to find the places still open and take the opportunity to discover some like this restaurant and bar with the acidic and magical name, Le Cornichon.
This restaurant, which immediately feels like a bar that has gone back in time, with all its cues from bygone eras, from the 1950s to the 1980s, is just about the perfect place to leave a summer evening too hot flow serenely.
After dinner, we head elsewhere, to smell the evening air and the surrounding area, find a bar that has been very popular for years, one of the first to have launched the taste for natural wines: Aux deux amis, rue Oberkampf.
On a screen, the Olympics, but no one is watching. “We have the last Parisians of the summer. We were promised a month full of tourists thanks to the Olympics, but that is not the case at all.
