The French Federation of Basketball offered full support to Sylvain Francisco following racist messages and insults posted on social media.

On Sunday, FFBB issued a statement noting ‘intolerable’ comments countering the values of basketball and of the Federation.

Earlier, Nicolas Batum, serving as a color commentator of France’s games for TF1, shared a social-media post featuring such comments connected to Francisco and his bucket following a handshake with Luka Doncic , late in the EuroBasket 2025 meeting between France and Slovenia in Katowice’s Spodek Arena on Saturday .

This marks a second racist incident following a racial slur toward Germany’s Dennis Schroder at Tampere’s Nokia Arena , leading to the ban of a Lithuanian fan from attending other games of the tournament.

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