As a public service in promotion of better pronunciation of foreign names, here is the proper way to say the names of the players on the French men’s roster, brought to you by the great basketball minds at the French site posterdunk.com, (@posterdunk on Twitter).
This one’s for you, Doug Collins and Bob Fitzgerald.
Kévin SERAPHIN
Nicolas BATUM
Fabien CAUSEUR
Yakhouba DIAWARA
Ali TRAORE
Tony PARKER
Yannick BOKOLO
Florent PIETRUS
Nando DE COLO
Mickael GELABALE
Boris DIAW
Ronny TURIAF
I speak French and even I did not know those were the proper pronunciations. Thank you for enlightening me.