« C'est fait! Thabo Sefolosha a été retenu pour jouer en NBA, qui plus est au sein des prestigieux Chicago Bulls. Il confirme ainsi ses rêves, mais aussi les attentes de ceux qui en suivaient l'évolution de près et qui lui promettaient, sans l'afficher trop haut - par superstition, avant tout - qu'il y parviendrait.

C'est d'abord l'itinéraire d'un enfant... doué. Mais c'est surtout la confirmation... »

« Four field goals attempted; four field goals made. Three free-throws, three points. Elapsed time on the court, 10 minutes! The Vaudois was perfect for his first regular season game in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls. News coverage in Miami.

Humble. The Veveysan is the first Swiss to join the NBA. His team has defeated the Miami Heat 108-66. In the changing-room, Thabo Sefolosha talks about a good first experience. »

« Thabo Sefolosha who's coming from the state of Vaud in Switzerland, is going to be introduced in the team of the Chicago Bulls in the NBA, the most important league of basketball in USA. First time ever for a Swiss player.

Far away to be strict in laughing and jocking, the young swiss player represents perfectly his first name.

Indeed, Thabo means «joy» in sotho dialect. Born from a Swiss mother who was a painter and from a South Africain father who was a musician, the little boy who's nearly 2 meters tall and is 97 kilos, did his first step in basketball in Vevey.»

« The followers keep coming, seemingly a new one each week of Thabo Sefolosha's young basketball career.

They arrive at the Berto Center and United Center to chronicle his every move, to sate the curiosity back home, to tell the story of the first Swiss-born player in the NBA.

Their reports and stories run on Swiss TV stations and in Swiss newspapers typically devoted to the athletic exploits on soccer fields, hockey rinks and mountains... »

« It’s tough being a kid with NBA dreams, let alone one from Switzerland. As in most of Europe, soccer rules the Swiss landscape and is considered one of that nation’s pet obsessions. Befitting the most mountainous country in Europe, skiing is also right up there, along with ice hockey, snow boarding and hiking. »