Lebanese basketball is keeping its head down, hoping that the Israeli storm will pass as quickly as possible

"I'm trying to convince myself that the season will start again in a month or two, but it's impossible to plan ahead. Since I returned to France, I've been completely torn, because my head has been in Lebanon." On the other end of the line, Marvin Sarkis does not hide his dismay at having been suddenly torn away from his daily life as a professional basketball player. Back in Roanne, his hometown in the Loire department, the Champville player is still struggling to imagine what the next few months of his career will look like. Having arrived six years earlier on the Lebanese basketball courts, the opportunity to take his first steps in his home country, the 30-year-old Franco-Lebanese guard had just signed up for a fourth season with the Maristes, a club based in Dik al-Mehdi, in the Metn district, north of Beirut, which did not hide its...