{"id":270739,"date":"2025-11-08T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270739\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:36:22","slug":"4-time-nba-champion-tony-parker-starts-coaching-career-with-france-u17-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270739\/","title":{"rendered":"4-time NBA champion Tony Parker starts coaching career with France U17 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1899212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-22237165281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 Former NBA star Tony Parker will start his coaching career in charge of France\u2019s Under-17 team, the French basketball federation said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old Parker will coach the team at the U17 World Cup in Turkey next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about coaching for two years now, telling myself it\u2019s the next step for me. I miss being on the court, the adrenaline, the challenge,\u201d Parker told L\u2019Equipe newspaper. \u201cThat\u2019s why I decided to get my coaching licenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker, a four-time NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014, made 181 appearances for France, winning the EuroBasket tournament in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Former NBA star Tony Parker will start his coaching career in charge of France\u2019s Under-17&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,157489],"class_list":["post-270739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-tony-parker-coach-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}