Paris Olympics 2024: Ex-NBA Player Chase Budinger Wins Olympic Beach Volleyball Debut Match in France

Paris, July 30: Chase Budinger has never forgotten how badly he played in his first NBA game. He'll have only good memories from his Olympic debut. The former Arizona and professional basketball player and his partner, Miles Evans, beat host France in straight sets on Monday to coast through their opening match of the Paris beach volleyball tournament. Paris Olympics 2024: Tom Pidcock Wins Second Mountain Bike Gold Medal Despite Flat Tyre.

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Budinger spent seven years in the NBA, mostly as a bench player for the Rockets and Timberwolves, before turning to beach volleyball to fulfill an Olympic dream. His first game, he still remembers, 슬롯사이트œI played awful.슬롯사이트�

슬롯사이트œOn the bus ride over here, I was telling Miles about my first basketball game, of how nervous I was and how the nerves really got to me,슬롯사이트� Budinger said. 슬롯사이트œI was 0-for-2 (from 3-point range), had two turnovers and one of my shots I had was an airball. So the nerves affected my game play.슬롯사이트�

At the Eiffel Tower Stadium on Monday the jitters didn't get to him 슬롯사이트� even against a French team that had won the last three matchups on the international tour.

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Budinger and Evans scored the first three points and never trailed in the first set. In the second, France did eke out a 3-1 lead before the Americans won the next three points and finished the match in just 32 minutes.

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Unlike the NBA debut against the Portland Trail Blazers back in 2009, Budinger said, 슬롯사이트œI felt like out here, I was able to get a couple of points early. That helped relieve some of that stress, those nerves and allowed me to play my game more without it affecting me as much.슬롯사이트� Paris Olympics 2024: Japan슬롯사이트™s Yuto Horigome Wins Second Olympic Gold Medal in Men슬롯사이트™s Street Skateboarding.

In other notable beach action on Monday, Americans Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth beat Tokyo silver medalist Taliqua Clancy of Australia and her new partner, Mariafe Artacho del Solar, in straight sets to improve to 2-0 in Paris.

France swept Rio gold medalist Laura Ludwig of Germany and her new partner, Louisa Lippmann. Qatar, the bronze medalist in Tokyo on the men's side, beat top-ranked Sweden 2-1 to improve to 2-0 in pool play.

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