The fans certainly won’t win because we’ll only watch what could be an excellent career for Wembanyama through an unrealistic lens. Unless Wembanyama literally becomes the singular best player ever, he can’t win. Because nobody wins from this sort of talk. What are we doing here, y’all? Who does this all serve? I ask that genuinely. It’s like we hadn’t learned anything from the last 20 years.Īdrian Wojnarowski is calling Wemby the “ greatest prospect in the history of team sports.” Fox Sports’ Chris Broussard says that if Wembanyama has a career on par with the likes of Anthony Davis, Kevin Durant or Hakeem Olajuwon then his career would be “a disappointment” as if being one of the 20 best players to ever pick up a basketball is some devastating failure. Now we’re doing the same with Victor Wembanyama. He’s not special.” And that completely warped everyone’s thinking when it came to James and it’s honestly what led to The Decision and the feast-or-famine way we talk about some of the best players ever today. Instead, it was, “Well, he’s great, right? So he should be doing that. The conversation was never about the great things that LeBron did at such a young age or the fact that he lived up to every expectation and then some. He was built up into this caricature that, eventually, became an assumed reality for so many people.įolks like Skip Bayless ran with it and made careers off of it. Well, folks, it’s exactly what we did to LeBron James when it was his time coming up. That’s more than enough to excite people about what he could possibly be.īut, of course, basketball media is doing the thing again. He had a putback dunk off of his own stepback 3-point attempt, y’all. The dude can palm a basketball with two fingers. And don’t be shocked if we see him out there initiating offense at certain points. You might be able to play him on the wing if his handle is tight enough. He’s a 7-foot-4 (maybe taller?) center who has legitimate guard skills. He’s very clearly one of the most intriguing prospects in NBA history.
Obviously, Wembanyama is beyond talented.
The Victor Wembanyama media coverage has already jumped the shark and the kid hasn’t even played an NBA minute yet. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. This is the online version of our daily newsletter, The Morning Win.
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