The Free League

This time, we are in Paris, inside the Adidas Arena, at the heart of one of Europe’s fastest-rising basketball clubs. For one night, we stepped into the noise, the lights, the music and the emotion surrounding the current French Betclic Elite champion Paris Basketball, a team trying to create not just wins, but a real culture. In this episode, you will hear Isaiah Denzel, a fashion influencer from...

Randoald Dessarzin is, before anything else, a Jurassian. The Pully-Lausanne Foxes head coach carved from the stubborn rock of his region, driven by an unwavering belief in basketball as both a craft and a calling. He is the coach who once carried the modest BC Boncourt squad to the highest levels of Swiss professional basketball. That achievement opened the doors of the storied JDA Dijon, in Fran...

Mouna Skaria, a dermatologist and surgeon based in Vevey since 2005, entered basketball largely through her children, who joined the club in 2016, shortly before the formation of the Pully Lausanne Foxes in 2017. What began as volunteer work, from helping at club events to fundraising and managing teams, evolved into leadership roles, culminating in her becoming president five years later. Under h...

International referee and lifelong basketball enthusiast, Miloš Jovanović moves between two worlds: traditional 5x5 basketball and the fast‑growing 3x3 format. Originally from Serbia and now based in Switzerland, he explains how an unexpected calling led him to officiate at the highest level. With a mix of physical preparation, strict rule mastery, and sharp on‑court communication, he describes a...

When I meet Miguel Font on an early December morning, the encounter feels almost disarmingly simple. We meet at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, just outside Geneva—a place that quietly houses the heart of global basketball governance. Despite basketball being the world’s second most popular team sport, with more than 3.3 billion fans worldwide, the sport remains oddly misunderstoo...

Aner Levron grew up in a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee, a world shaped by nature, community, and simplicity. This environment forged his values: solidarity, effort, belonging—and a love for basketball. Now 41, he is assistant coach at Fribourg Olympic, after spending 19 years travelling through Europe as a professional player, mainly in Germany but also in Austria and Italy. His journey was made po...

From the small gyms of Monthey and Vevey to the electric atmosphere of an Olympic 3×3 final in Paris, Sebastiano De Martis has lived basketball from every angle—player, referee, and coach. What began as a childhood passion in Wallis became a lifelong compass, guiding him through the Swiss leagues and beyond. He played for Vevey Basket and Blonay Basket until age nineteen, before discovering offici...

In its very first interview, The Free League introduces Julija Matic, a 19-year-old basketball talent whose journey bridges Switzerland and Serbia. Born and raised in Switzerland to Serbian parents, Julija discovered basketball at age ten thanks to her older brother Geo, who first brought her to the playground. What started as sibling support quickly became a lifelong passion shared by the entire...