France will compete at EuroBasket 2025 without its three best-known NBA players after Victor Wembanyama, Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier all withdrew from the tournament. Head coach Frédéric Fauthoux on 27 June named an 18-man preliminary list that features rising talents such as Moussa Diabate, Ousmane Dieng and Alex Sarr for the event scheduled in Latvia from 27 August to 14 September. Gobert, a six-time international medallist, informed the French federation on 21 June that he would skip the continental championship to recover after the NBA season. Six days later the federation confirmed that Wembanyama and Fournier would also sit out, leaving France without the core that helped it reach the Olympic final last year. Wembanyama’s absence is not injury-related. The 21-year-old San Antonio Spurs centre said on 14 July that team doctors have cleared him to resume full basketball activities following a deep-vein thrombosis in his right shoulder that limited him to 46 games last season, when he averaged 24 points, 11 rebounds and a league-best 3.8 blocks. He will spend the off-season preparing for the 2025-26 NBA campaign rather than joining the national team.