Victor Wembanyama lived up to expectations in his first NBA season and then some. Scott Wachter / REUTERS
It’s official, the French giant (2.24m) will skip San Antonio’s last regular season match, Sunday, against Evan Fournier’s Detroit Pistons.
2023-24 is over for Victor Wembanyama. Number 1 in the 2023 Draft, the 20-year-old French prodigy will not participate in San Antonio’s last regular season match, Sunday, against Evan Fournier’s Detroit Pistons. He is officially announced forfeit due to illness and injury to his right ankle. Knowing that the San Antonio Spurs, penultimate in the Western Conference with the same record as Portland, last (21 wins, 60 losses), are obviously eliminated from the race for the play-offs or the play-in, “Wemby” has therefore finished with its first campaign on the other side of the Atlantic. A season that he finished with averages of 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 1.2 interceptions per game (71 matches). He also finished with 3.6 blocks on average, which makes the French rookie the best blocker in the NBA for the entire 2023-24 season.
After a promising but imperfect start to the season, “Wemby” has found its cruising speed since the start of the year. For example, he averaged 25 points, 12.8 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 5.6 blocks in his five matches in April. Hair-raising. History will remember that he completed this inaugural campaign with 34 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks during a 121-120 victory against Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets, outgoing champions. Wembanyama more than lived up to the expectations placed on him. He will be named without a shadow of a doubt Rookie of the Year in a few weeks, before turning to the Paris Olympic Games with the Blues (July 26-August 11). Vincent Collet will unveil his list on May 16.
2024-04-13 21:36:42
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