NBA Champion. NBA All Star.
Siakam was born in Douala, Cameroon, to Tchamo and Victorie Siakam, the youngest of four brothers. His father, Tchamo, worked for a local transit company and was also the mayor of Makénéné. According to a story by Jackie MacMullan of ESPN, Pascal was effectively “hand-picked to embody his family’s Catholicism.” His father thus enrolled him in St. Andrew’s Seminary in Bafia at age eleven. By the time he was fifteen, he did not want to become a Catholic priest.
