Yves Pons

Yves Pons (born 7 May 1999) is a Haitian-born French professional basketball player for Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB.

[citation needed] After close to a year in the orphanage, Yves was taken in by his adopted parents, Babeth and Jean-Claude Pons, who lived in France.

[3] He became the first four-star recruit to play for Barnes at Tennessee and the first French men's basketball player in school history.

[21][22] Pons won a gold medal with France at the 2014 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship in Latvia, after averaging 3.8 points per game.

[23] He averaged 10.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks per game at the 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in Zaragoza, Spain, as his team finished in sixth place.

[24] In 2019, Pons joined France at the FIBA U20 European Championship in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he averaged 2.6 points per game for the fourth-place team.

Pons in January 2019