Anthony Marciano wrote the script without the involvement of Bouna Ndiaye and Jérémy Medjana, but still wanted their support, so he tried to contact them and eventually got to quickly meet them and give them the script. The contacted him the next day, told him how it moved them, and had dinner with him that evening to talk about the project.
Even though it doesn't have a big place in the movie, Raphaël Quenard and Jean-Pascal Zadi took three months of intensive basketball lessons, which they felt helped making the basketball playing scenes more believable.
For logistical and budgetary reasons, all outdoors scenes set in the USA were actually shot in Canada. While no actual NBA stadium or location was used in the making of the movie, the NBA was very helpful in identifying and supplying all the film crew would need to make the movie as authentic and believable as possible.
Writer/director Anthony Marciano had always been fascinated by success stories, and was himself a basketball fan. He was intrigued because whenever he would read an interview of French basketball players like Rudy Gobert or Nicolas Batum, there would always be the same two men behind the players in the photographs, and that's how he first learned about NBA agents Bouna Ndiaye and Jérémy Medjana.
Sixth collaboration between lead actors Raphaël Quenard and Jean-Pascal Zadi, after Smoking Causes Coughing (2022), Final Cut (2022), A Smile Doesn't Lie (2024), Beating Hearts (2024), and I Love Peru (2025).
