Victor Wembanyama was the first name called on the night of the 2023 NBA Draft becoming a new player for the San Antonio Spurs. At 19 he has already conquered everyone.
Victor Wembanyama he is only 19 years old but in a few hours the NBA world is talking about him. Born in 2003, born to a Congolese father and a French mother, he became the first overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft for the San Antonio Spurs who invested in this 224-centimeter tall boy whose talent can kick off a new cycle. An absolutely emotional night for “Wemby” at the time of the call from commissioner Adam Silver, followed by tears in the usual interview alongside brother and sister.
From the Metropolitans 92 in Paris, therefore, the second tallest player ever lands in the NBA at 1 overall after Yao Ming in 2002 but above all the second European in history at 1 after Andrea Bargnani in 2006 and the first French overall to be the first pick in the draft NBA. “You are already making us dream, Victor Wembanyama – President Macron wrote on social networks – There’s no doubt: you’ll change the game!”. Yes, because young Victor seems to be destined to be the first player of the next generation of athletes who will enter the NBA and usher in a new era.
Wembanyama arrived at the peak of his career as a very young player having played for the Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92 in France last season averaging 20.6 points, 10.1 rebounds, 3.0 blocked shots and 2.5 assists in 44 games. However, it is precisely this incredible height of him that intrigues everyone. The 19-year-old drafted by the San Antonio Spurs represents the evolution of the species on a basketball court.
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Never had a player of this stature been seen on a perimeter 28 meters long and 15 meters wide. And who knows, maybe it could be him, with his physique, who will convince the basketball world, one day, to slightly modify the measurements of the field, also to facilitate the movement of players of his size. A futuristic vision that at the moment, however, does not worry the French phenomenon that within hours he has already wowed the NBA.
Changes that would completely revolutionize the sport. Higher than Shaquille O’Neal e of the last league mvp, Joel Embiid, Wembanyama has always been considered predestined. He is the natural heir of LeBron James who considers him an alien. However, the one in San Antonio represents for him only the first step towards intense and busy days before the start of the season.
Indeed, the Frenchman will take part first at the Summer League in Las Vegas in July to then respond to the call-up of the national team for the FIBA World Cup between late August and early September. The night of the Draft that made him known to the NBA world therefore represents only the beginning of what will be to all intents and purposes a brilliant and exciting career in the world of basketball.
2023-06-23 14:18:53
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