NBA Alum Joakim Noah Opens Up About Being Tennis Star Yannick Noah’s Son

As a two-time national champion at the University of Florida, Joakim Noah made a name for himself long before ever stepping foot on an NBA court and out from his famous father’s shadow. “My father was the most famous person in France,” Noah, 41, told The Athletic in a feature published Thursday, August 27. “All the ego bulls***, I grew up in that. I was still a kid, and that was what I wanted to be, somebody who had his own name.” Joakim is the son of Yannick Noah, the Hall of Fame tennis player-turned-pop singer who now has his own Yannick Noah’s Day each year at Roland Ga...

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