Thursday\u2019s demonstrations<\/a>, \u2060including 24,500 in the main Paris march centred on Place de la Bastille.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are systemic inequalities \u2013 problems so deep-rooted \u2060that, in fact, I\u2019m glad that high-school students and young people in general are speaking up,\u201d Wembanyama told a news conference on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hear them, and I support them, and \u200cI hope the people all over there will do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Spurs player had previously replied \u201cI would love to\u201d when a fan asked him in an Instagram post to join the protest with the French teenagers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a lot of interest. I meant it,\u201d Wembanyama \u2060added at the news conference. \u201cI was in \u2060that position not so long ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had the chance to escape this system, to escape these problems. But it\u2019s chance, it\u2019s luck. So I \u2060want to show my support.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not something that\u2019s completely unfamiliar to me. I went \u2060to high school in Nanterre, which was \u2060already a stronghold of \u2018blocages\u2019 back then,\u201d he said, referring to student-led school blockades.<\/p>\n
Concerns about state schools have helped prompt a number of France\u2019s most significant protests \u200cin decades.<\/p>\n
They began last month at high schools in the poor northern suburbs of Paris, where anger over teacher absences \u200cand \u200cshabby facilities quickly evolved into a nationwide movement against inequality, weak public spending and falling standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San \u200bAntonio Spurs player Victor Wembanyama offers solidarity to students protesting conditions at schools in France. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,1079,99,21,1209],"class_list":["post-876167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}